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.
Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)
Valente, Catherynne M. Had me laughing so hard
The part in the Happy Ever After Playlist when the dog jumps into her car! I laughed out loud!
I laughed all the way through Alexis Hall’s Boyfriend Material. That, and Katherine Addison’s The Angel of the Crows got me out of a Spring book slump.
Silent Bite by David Rosenfelt because who doesn’t like sarcasm ala Andy Carpenter.
I saw the email and t thought. NO you need to keep cooking…So glad I did. The brisket won’t burn. I am reading Jolene Navarro’s Lone Star Holiday. It is one of my annual holiday reads. The humor feels natural and allows readers to move through serious subjects easily.
I loved The Switch by Beth Leary! I laughed and teared up at the wonderful characters, and their willingness to try new things in like fe. So good!
A series that read and I really loved this year so much so that I wished it was longer because it was so much fun was the Consortium Rebellion by Jessie Mihalik! It was quite a bit different than my usually books but once I started cruised through the whole series.
Which has been a lot harder for me now that I’m working from home and am putting in more hours plus I am missing all the time I used to listen to books during my commute. I’ve gone from reading close to 120 books a year to I’ll be lucky to read 60 this year!
Thanks so much! Love the pretty SPARKLY!!!
Hikaru Nakamura’s SAINT YOUNG MEN series has made me so happy with its Muppety deities, though Shinya Shinya’s NO VAMPIRE, NO HAPPY ENDING! was memorable for its sheer crazysauceness…
House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Kline
One of the books that made me laugh out loud was Reborn Yesterday by Tessa Bailey. Totally enjoyed it, and needed it last spring!
I am currently reading A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik and while its not an overall cheery book by any means, there are these great one-liners from the main characters inner monologue that totally crack me up!
I discovered the Pucked series by Helena Hunting, and it made me smile!
I just finished The Princess Knight by G.A. Aiken last night, and it’s made me laugh the most of any book I’ve read this year!
The Blacksmith Queen made me snort-laugh on multiple occasions! One of my favorite reads this year.
Act Like It by Lucy Parker. It’s been awhile since I read it the first time and I think that I liked it more reading it this year.
Jackie Lau’s “His Big City Neighbor” made me laugh and smile a lot.
The Flatshare — Beth O’Leary. Just really a delight.
I couldn’t stop laughing at Lindy West’s “Shit, Actually.” I found it so entertaining that I’ve added two of the movies she talked about to my movie queue!
Sparkly! Pink! I love it!
I reread my favorite Shelly Laurenston book this year. Except now of course I can’t remember the title, but it’s Blayne’s and Bo’s book, and it made me laugh a lot.
I just finished Loretta Chase’s Ten Things I Hate About the Duke and it made me so happy.
Chag sameach!!
Paladin’s Grace kept me grinning.
As did a long overdue reread of Lord of Scoundrels.
Re-reading so many things this year (finally retired and have all the time in the world at the moment) but space opera and cyborg lurv are my catnips de jour. As always, the cream of the crop (there’s a pun in there if you’ve read the book) is A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. It always makes me cry (he tries so hard that he messes up everything and practically destroys her) and it always makes me laugh – especially when she proposes marriage to him in front of the emperor and all the lords of Barrayar.
*sigh*
I think I’ll go re-read again right now.
The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross: Rip Van Winkel meets Shalom Aleichem in 21st-century Poland, with a love story in the mix. Enjoy and Happy Hanukkah.
One of my comfort re-reads that delights me endlessly is The Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas. The main characters are both accustomed to playing a role for public consumption, and are both completely thrown when each other see past their masks to their true selves. The tension and the wittiness are both fantastic.
The Trouble with Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis. Animals and Christmas including a jerk cat – there is so much to smile about
Janet Evanovich’s new Stephanie Plum, Fortune and Glory, was funny as always!
The Blacksmith Queen by G.A. Aiken really made my day. I loved the twists that made story so fresh and fun.
Lindy West’s Shit Actually was hilarious and just what I needed.
I think Fangs by Sarah Andersen. An opposites attract romance told with so many details!
Lindy West’s “Shit, Actually.” I listened to this while walking the dog, and I was the crazy lady who was guffawing to herself. This book was exactly what I needed this year.
Book that made me laugh…um definitely Awk-Weird by Avery Flynn. I think except for the fact that I’m not blonde or pregnant, I could have been that heroine.
Happy Hanukkah! Made me smile ..anything by Elizabeth Berg. She hits all right notes.
One of my favorite books this year was Love Lettering!
Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner made me smile with its bantery goodness.
Happy Hanukkah, everyone!
I smiled the whole time I read Spoiler Alert.
I was having a hard time deciding what book to pick and the first poster named “Hogfather!” I just finished that last week and since I love DEATH the most in all of the books (I’m just reading them for the first time and in order because I’m like that), I’m going to give the same answer: Hogfather!
Oh, great question. I was going to say that I hadn’t read anything that made me laugh/smile this year, but I doublechecked my GR list and saw there were a few books that fit the bill:
I read all of Craig Johnson’s currently available Walt Longmire books and I often laughed at the descriptions/dialogue. I had some problems with this series, but enjoyed it overall. (Sadly, I watched the first episode of the TV series afterwards and found it unbearable.)
I also read/reread several of Jodi Taylor’s books (inc. Doing Time, Hard Time, Plan for the Worst, and A Perfect Storm). Her books make me laugh, and then punch me in the gut.
Kira Jane Buxton’s The Hollow Kingdom was the same. You want to laugh then cry. Very funny, but not necessarily a feel-good read.
I actually listened to all of these as audiobooks (some I also read as ebooks) and they were all marvelously done–some of the best narrator/material pairings I’ve come across.
No romances on my list. My usual comfort reads and genres have just been irritating me this year.
I look forward to going thru the comments for some other ideas.
I just finished Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall, and it made me laugh so hard, while giving me the feels.
“ “Then you’re doing good work, but I know for a fact that even the big-name charities pay far less than the private sector.” His eyes—which were a hard, gunmetal grey—held mine so long and so steadily that I actually started sweating. “This is on me. I insist.” It felt weirdly patriarchal but I wasn’t sure I was allowed to complain about that, on account of us both being men. “Umm…””
There were a few things in Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas that made me giggle – Tom’s interactions with Bazzle are amusing (and sweet) and anything from her cousin West puts a huge smile on my face!
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh