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Hello, and welcome back to Movie Monday! Movie Monday is a feature on my blog where I compare and discuss books and their movie or television adaptation! Today I’m discussing the 2004 movie, Christmas with the Kranks based off the book, Skipping Christmas by John Grisham.

Hello everyone! I can hardly believe that Christmas Eve is next week!!  Who’s all ready for Christmas?! 🙋‍♀️ Today it’s another installment of Countdown to Christmas! Countdown to Christmas is a weekly feature where I recommend a different Christmas-y book each week to read this holiday season. This week’s book is Ex-mas by Kate Brian. Two Exes. One holiday adventure. Merry Ex-Mas? Seventeen-year-old Lila Beckwith’s parents just left for vacation, and Lila’s all set to throw the holiday… Read More

Title: Journey Back to Christmas by Leigh Duncan Pages: 154 Genre: Contemporary, Sci-Fi/Time Travel, Romance Published by: Hallmark Publishing (Oct. 17, 2017) Summary Treat yourself to ebooks inspired by Hallmark Christmas movies. Enjoy a heartwarming, feel-good story…and find out what happens after the movie ends. WWII is finally over, but Hanna’s husband, Chet, didn’t return home. She puts on a brave smile during the day while nursing her hospital patients, but at night, she grieves the loss… Read More

Hello!  It’s time for another holiday book tag!  I was tagged by Jenn @ Jenniely for the Bookish Naughty List book tag. 😁  So, let’s decide if I deserve to go on the the naughty list this year! Received an ARC and not reviewed it  ✅ Hasn’t everyone done this? 🙈  Especially with things like NetGalley, it’s so easy to receive an ARC, and not get around to reviewing it.  I plan on finishing them… Read More

Hello everyone!  This year, I participated in The Broke & the Bookish Secret Santa!  This is an annual event, but this year was my first time doing it.  Well, my package arrived the other day, and Y’ALL, my Secret Santa, who it turns out is Nicole from Nicole’s Novel Reads, spoiled me so!  So, today, I’m going to share with you all what I received!  When my package arrived I was… Read More

Hey everyone!  I’m so excited to finally share my TBR for the Holiday Adventure-A-Thon, hosted by Novel Thoughts!  The readathon starts tomorrow, the 13th, and runs through Christmas Eve, the 24th.  This is a super fun, “choose your own adventure” style readathon. To get all the details, be sure to check them out here! Okay, so I’ve decided to join Team Holiday Penguin! Here’s my route and anticipated TBR: Now, I’d love… Read More

Welcome back to Countdown to Christmas. Countdown to Christmas is a weekly feature where I recommend a different Christmas-y book each week to read this holiday season.  Can you even believe how quickly Christmas is approaching?!  Before you know it, it’ll be Christmas Eve! Today’s book is The Case of the Twin Teddy Bears (Nancy Drew #116) by Carolyn Keene On the trail of a teddy bear thief, nancy unwraps double-dealing and double crosses! … Read More

Hi everyone! I was tagged by Taylor from Taylor is Reading to do The Christmas Song book tag.  Thanks so much to Taylor for tagging me!  I love Christmas music, so I’m really looking forward to doing this tag. Okay, let’s get started! 1. “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch”: Name a villainous character you couldn’t help but love. For this one, I have to go with Alastor, from The Dreadful Tale of Prosper… Read More

Hello everyone!  It’s December 1st, and so that means it is officially Blogmas!!  To start things off, I’ve decided to do a fun, Christmas-y book tag. I discovered the ‘Tis the Season book tag on Book Snacks while googling for Christmas-y posts for Blogmas! Okay, here we go: 1. Do you have a favorite winter read?    To name just a few, I really loved Let it Snow, Clara Claus, and, of course, the… Read More

Hello!  Let’s just take a moment to stop and internally freak out that November is over, and we are in the last month of 2017! 😳  Y’ALL! HOW DID THAT EVEN HAPPEN?! WASN’T SUMMER JUST LAST MONTH?! *ahem* Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about what I read and blogged about in the month of November!  Plus, I have an exciting Blogmas announcement at the end of this wrap-up! In… Read More