It’s time, it’s time!
Every year, we do eight nights of giveaways to celebrate Hanukkah, and this year, I’m getting as much light, festivity, and fried food together as possible. Happy Hanukkah 5781!
As always, we want celebrate all of you in the SBTB community, and the ways in which you bring light 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, and of course, happy reading.
Ready? Let’s do this!
Today’s prize is: a Kate Spade Lola Glitter Crossbody in Sienna.
It sparkles. That’s the important part.
Here are pics!
Shiny! Sparkly! SO pretty!
Want some specs?
- The bag measures approximately 5.9″h x 9.0″w x 1.8″d
- It has an adjustable crossbody strap drop length of 22″.
- The top zips closed – very important to me, personally.
- There’s a back slip pocket, too.
- IT SPARKLES.
Want to enter? Yay!
Just leave a comment and tell us about a book that made you laugh, or made you smile! Very important this year.
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, sparkly fun 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 sparkly pink bag that’s sparkly and pink.
Comments will close 11 December 2020 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 Jules! Please check your email shortly, including the spam folders.
Hogfather by Terri Pratchett!
I’m reading the Harry Potter books to my oldest child, so that has definitely made me smile.
I’m reading Courtney Milan’s “The Duke Who Didn’t” right now, and have smiled multiple times at the way Jeremy and Chloe interact (sure beats grading my students’ research papers).
Jackalope Wives and Other Stories by T. Kingfisher.
And probably other books she’s written. I’ve probably reread her Clocktaur books at some point this year and they are fantastic.
I was also delighted by Courtney Milan’s The Duke Who Didn’t. Within the first couple of pages I was grinning from ear to ear and I pretty much didn’t stop for the rest of the book. I also want to give a shout out to Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade, which the adorable romance between the two protagonists just made me want to hug the book tight and then share it with everyone I know.
Reading the entire Emelan series by Tamora Pierce is a warm comforting hug and perfect cup of tea and also very much makes me smile.
Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher. A hero who knits socks! Older heroine who is matter of fact in the funniest, best way. Kind people being kind to each other.
Found my collection of Far Side books and forgot how much I loved them.
Erin Nicholas’s Hot Cakes series is keeping a smile on my face this year… I especially loved Semi Sweet on You, but all of them have been amazing! There’s a warmth and joy in Ms Nicholas’s writing that really works for me 🙂
It SPARKLES!
I’ve been reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers which feels like a warm hug and just makes me smile all the time.
Sex puppy himbo Dean’s antics in Open Hearts by Eve Dangerfield. So ginger, so sweet, so dumb. It’s a comfort read for me.
snort laughed my way through the dialogue in Kulti, recommended here and also by a brilliant friend who knew I’d love hilarious, incisive, tender books by Mariana zapata despite not liking sports. Those books were a bright spot and lifeline during this chaotic year.
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall-made me laugh out loud!
Kate Clayborn’s “Love Lettering” – finishing it left me with a warm, happy glow, like when a kitten or puppy is snoozing in your lap and you sigh contentedly and feel as though everything has fallen perfectly in place
Picture It, a debut novel by Jana McKewen. It was fun!
Because, when it comes to reading, I’m generally in the den of dark & angsty (where it doesn’t always have to be dark, but it almost always has to be angsty), I had to go back through my Finished in 2020 list to find something sweet & lighthearted—and it was Adrienne Wilder’s 63 DAYS LATER which is a Christmas epilogue to her decidedly-not sweet & lighthearted WILD. In 63 DAYS LATER, the two heroes from WILD are preparing to celebrate Christmas when a litter of wolf pups arrives unexpectedly. The only caution is, you have to read WILD first for the happiness and joy of 63 DAYS LATER to make sense. Oh well, doesn’t sweet work better with a little tart mixed in?
I read Shit, Actually by Lindy West out loud to my husband and we both got a huge kick out of it!
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall—so many bad jokes! It’s fantastic!
Of books that are new this year, both Boyfriend Material (Alexis Hall) and A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking (T. Kingfisher) made me laugh.
My comment has disappeared so here we go again.
I thoroughly enjoyed the debut novel by Jana McKewen, “Picture It”. It was sweet and funny. And we do need sweet & funny in 2020.
Any of the Zits comic compilation books!! (and I’m glad that I’m not a parent of a teenager…. or even a teenager anymore.)
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson always makes me laugh when I’m down!
This time of year makes me want to share books with my kid.
Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (first Tiffany Aching book, can start there without reading any other Discworld)
The quote that made both me and my surly tween child laugh: “That was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul” about the battle poetry intended to incapacitate enemies.
The House in the Cerulean Sea. It’s a hug in book form.
Fangs by Sarah Andersen makes me grin like an idiot every time I flip through it.
Olivia Sade’s Spoiler Alert made me smile through the whole book
After reading the review, I immediately bought and read Ten Things I Hate About the Duke, and it make me so, so happy I started reading it again as soon as I finished it. As a middle school teacher who is face to face in the middle of a pandemic, it was such a delight to escape with wonderful characters.
Nathan Pyles’ Strange Planet has brought me many welcome smiles this year.
A book that made me happy this year (and consequently, smile) was Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas.
TJ Klune’s HOW TO BE A NORMAL PERSON, because some of us just aren’t equipped to do it without a guide. Snort laughing and some tears. Because, balance.
I read “Picture It” by Jana McKewen and enjoyed it a lot !
CourtneyMilan’s, The Duke Who Didn’t , was the book I needed in 2020. It made me smile so much.
Just read the Jackie Lau book Ice Cream Lover and it made me laugh so much!
I’m reading the new illustrated edition of Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! and it keeps making me laugh all over again.
I loved loved loved The Trouble With Hating You this year!
Driving Over Lemons, by Chris Stewart.
I’ve recently been revisiting old favorites, and Jenny Lawson’s “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened “ definitely made me laugh out loud – several times!
I finally got around to reading The Hating Game this year, and now I’m mad that I waited so long. It was my favorite book of the year. 🙂
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade.
My earlier comment disappeared too! But for me: I’ve been re-reading Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! (in its new fully illustrated edition, which is gorgeous), and it’s been making me laugh out loud all over again.