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.
In desperate longing for a new Diana Gabaldon novel I’m re-reading Drums of Autumn (having already read the 1st 3 several times) and it feels like hanging out with old friends and crushes.
I really enjoyed T. Kingfisher‘s Paladin’s Grace and Swordheart. She’s a new author for me this year.
The absolutely adorable “Get a Life, Chloe Brown” by Talia Hibbert. Such an amazing and beautifully representative book with a positive, supportive romance. So much love and smiles found here!
The Hazards of Hunting a Duke: Desperate Debutantes by Julia London was the exact read I needed for this year – loved it! (listened on Audible)
CONTAGION by Amanda Milo. It’s hilarious. Hi.la.ri.ous. It’s an alien romance and the hero has… almost-everything phobia, but mostly germ-phobia. As the author says, he’s a “super fearsome predator (who doesn’t know he’s fearsome—let alone a predator—and sadly, he doesn’t have a clue that he’s super) after he’s been dropped in the woods where absolutely everything scares him.”
I hesitated between Contagion and Paladin’s Grace by T. Kinfisher. While the humour in Paladin’s Grace permeates most of the book, Contagion was written to be funny before all, so ultimately I went with Contagion.
The Lightning Struck Heart by TJ Klune made me laugh out loud when I was up at 4am with insomnia and toddlers.
I finally read “The Grand Sophy”, and although it wasn’t as hysterically funny to me as some other Heyer books, it was very amusing, lots of smiles.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune and rereading Jenny Lawson’s books.
Tahlia Hibbert has brought me so much joy this year! I’ll pick Get a Life, Chloe Brown, but I have loved every book by her. Also reread Good Omens for the happy feels.
I just r-read all three books of The Homey Badger Series and laugh snorted through Max’s book
A Cuban Girls Guide to Tea and Tomorrow had many sweet smile moments.
Even though it is violent and bloody, I have been so enjoying The Princess Knight (The Scarred Earth Saga). Quinn is so funny!
I too just finished Courtney Milan’s ‘The Duke Who Didn’t’. That book just left me with overall warm fuzzies. I have all the feels when it comes to To Do lists.
Plus I went on a Tessa Dare re-read binge. Miranda and Colin’s book is probably my favorite.
Love the sarcastic exchanges between Lord Crane and Merrick in the Magpie Lord series by KJ Charles and A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare. So many to choose from but these stand out.
Most recently for me was Mermaid Inn by Jenny Holiday. The antics!
Aurora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik
I have been re-reading The Blue Castle (L. M. Montgomery) – a book that always makes me smile and fills me with warm fuzzies.
So pretty! Love the pink and sparkles.
I’ve done mostly comfort re-reads this year. But of the few new books I read, the one I remember smiling a lot and laughing out loud at was The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller. The hero Sam was adorable and the parts with him interacting with his family were such fun. I wasn’t expecting the book to have so much humor, and it was probably the mostly delightful, surprising reading experience I had this year.
Actually the book I’m reading right now has been cracking me up. The heroine is hilarious. It’s Gargoyle Huntress by Jen Pretty.
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren made me so happy that I sent copies to 5 people on my team at work plus 2 friends!
Get a Life Chloe Brown was delightful!
Oh the thalia hibbert take a hint Dani brown and get a life chloe brown had be giggling aloud and smiling ear to ear!!!
The Blacksmith Queen by G. A. Aiken
Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher.
I only discovered Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) in October of this year, and promptly devoured her back catalog. Paladin’s Grace was the one that made me laugh so hard that I had to put the book down.
Talia Hibbert’s Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Cotillion by Georgette Heyer is an old reliable that always make smile. As does Heyer in general.
His Bride For The Taking by Tessa Dare! It was my first historical – I was not expecting the hilarious banter, but I loved it.
So many, but especially A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik and The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan!
Nalini’s Archangel’s Sun was very finny in spots.
“wow no thank you” for sheer comedy but “the bride” for romantic goodness!
I got very anxious this year and ended up rereading a bunch of G.A.Aiken’s books. Her strong women and off-the-wall humor took me out of reality when I needed it.
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall.
And my current read Merry Measure by Lily Morton has made me LOL.
Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas!
Reread The Hating Game and it had me in stitches!
Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher. I love all the books I’ve read by this author, including her kids books under her real name Ursula Vernon. My son and I laugh at her stuff all the time, and when I him Paladin’s Grace when he’s a bit older (he’s seven) I feel he’ll love it as much as I do.
I’ve been ready a Portuguese book “A Defensora do Oculto” (The Defender of the Occult) which is making me chortle like a hyena.
It’s one of those “This is Sailor Moon but I’m pretending it’s not by making the main character solo, and an adult woman” books.
I don’t feel bad for buying it, because it was meant to help a struggling bookstore, and it’s cracktastic and insane.
The Blacksmith Queen was hilarious and Love Lettering made me smile a lot.