Happy Hanukkah, 2018! Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah 5779, and as we do every year, we have eight straight days and nights of festive giveaways!
Each year, we want celebrate you, the SBTB community, and the light you bring to the world by being so generous, kind, thoughtful, and also hilarious. So starting today and lasting for eight days, we’re going to be hosting giveaways that we hope will give the lucky winner some joy and delight, comfort and solace, and of course, happy reading.
Ready? Let’s do this!
Today’s prize is:
A kate spade Boho Floral Jeny satchel style bag!
This bag has a big, adorable bow across the top of the handle, and the floral pattern is lovely, too.
Want some specs?
- The bag measures approximately 10″ w x 7″ h x 5″ d.
- The top zips close – very important to me, personally.
- The interior has one zip pocket, plus two slip pockets.
Want to enter? Yay!
Just leave a comment saying what book of the past year you would like to recommend.
Standard disclaimers apply: I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18 and open to the option of fried food and candles, plus very adorable handbags. Toting all your favorite things is recommended for maximum enjoyment, but most especially a book. We cannot be responsible for the glow of pleasure and happiness that may come from carrying around a bag covered in flowers.
Comments will close Monday 3 December 2018 at or near 12pm ET, and winner will be announced shortly afterward.
Good luck, Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for being part of Smart Bitches!
Winner update: Congratulations to Veronica! Veronica, be sure to check your email inbox and spam folders.
Stay tuned for more Hanukkah giveaways!
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh. Not as much trashy as about purported white trash but a good read nonetheless!
I read several amazing books but I have to go with Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone. It was just so cathartic and I really needed that this year.
Anything and everything by Talia Hibbert!
My recommendations I’ve made this year to friends are The KIss Quotient by Helen Honang and The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory. They are great romances which diverse, likable, and realistic characters and like Bet Me -a great introduction to individuals not certain what to read in romance or are casual readers of romance.
Tessa dare!!
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh by Carl Zimmer (Not a Romance) – great engaging stories about human genetics. (I teach high school biology, so I might have a bit of a bias.)
I’m also in the middle of reading Lie to Me by JT Ellison. Very suspenseful, and I like it much more than Gone Girl.
The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune.
Hard to pick one but Magic Triumphs was a book I waited a year to read and it was worth the wait.
The bag is adorable! Love the bow. I enjoyed the final book in the Hidden Legacy series by Ilona Andrews: Wildfire.
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
Circe by Madeline Miller
So many to choose from, but I’m going to go with Kristan Higgins’ GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. I laughed, I cried, I want to give it to everyone I know… Happy Hanukkah!
A promise of fire by Amanda Bouchet was absolutely delightful.
Also kingpin by Cassandra Gannon was amazing. She’s fabulous and free if you have amazon unlimited.
Luck of the Draw and Best of Luck by Kate Clayborn!
I read “The Bear and the Nightengale” by Katherine Arden and “Uprooted” by Naomi Novik back to back. Both were great takes on traditional fairy-tale-style fantasy, and were a lot of fun to read.
As a nice Italian girl from New Jersey, it has to be Wrecking Ball by P. Dangelico.
The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran. A 5* read!
Ides of April by Lindsey Davis. It’s about a lady detective in ancient Rome.
For me, it’s a tie between Rainy Day Friends by Jill Shalvis and Beautiful Mistake by Vi Keeland 🙂 thanks for the awesome giveawawy!
Sarah MacLean Wicked and the Wallflower
The Kiss Quotient
Martha Wells’ Murderbot novellas
The Duke I tempted by Scarlett Peckham. So original!
I read some great novels this year, but the 2018 book I recommend most is nonfiction: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. It’s excellent and I wish everyone would read it.
Zodiac Starforce!! Great graphic novel series with all the sweet, campy, magical girl shenanigans I didn’t realize I needed so much.
Happy Hanukkah!
Born to be Wilde by Eloisa James. I devoured that book.
The Governess Game by Tessa Dare.
Good Gone Bad by Giana Darling
Honestly, it’s a throw back series. I just this Summer finally read the Fever series by K.M. Moning. I know,I know,I am WAY behind! But, I loved it !
Ilona Andrews’s Iron and Magic and Diamond Fire novella were both delightful.
Definitely The Kiss Quotient!
I’ve been recommending Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone (aka Victoria Dahl) to everyone.
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang. I’ve read it over and over again when I wanted a sweet story with minimal drama. A great comfort read.
Gentleman in Moscow.
The last Kate Daniel’s book, and the spin off…Iron and Magic…by Ilona Andrews
I just read the reworked Hello Stranger by Lisa Kleypas and can recommend it! The terrible Orientalism has been excised and the book is recommendable now
A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Mackenzi Lee. I haven’t even finished it yet and I can’t shut up about it.
I read Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye this year and really enjoyed it 🙂
A princess in theory!
‘Snowspelled’by Stephanie Burgess got me out of a vicious reading slump. It’s charming alternative history, and it’s even got me looking forward to more of the series.