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A few years ago, during COVID, I got a book called Holi-Daze by author duo Christina Lauren . It’s a book I would’ve turned my nose up to (how beneath me!) , but it was part of the Book of the Month subscription club and I thought the cute cover would look good on my coffee table as a holiday decoration.
You guys, I was hooked! I ended up basically reading the rom com in one sitting, feeling like I was 12 years old all over again. I went to Amazon and ordered 6 more Christina Lauren books.
And why not? I thought. Everyone was on lockdown, and I found reading a book to be a much more noble and intellectually enriching past time than doom scrolling Instagram, admiring other people’s cute kids, engagement announcements, and kissing photos, feeling bad for myself.
So that Christmas, my opinion on books changed. While I try to incorporate life changing reads, and stretch my brain mass to it’s highest capacity without feeling like an idiot, I humbly admit I love the corny reads too.
Bring them on .
And the heartwarming ones.
And the big-brain ones.
So: please list your favorite holiday reads. If it matters, yes I’m Christian and open to religious informative texts too.
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small things like these by claire keegan!!
The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score
I really, really loved “Legends and Lattes” and “Bookshops and Bonedust”. They’re very easy, fun reading, they’re relatively unique in that they’re cozy action/fantasy, and they’re just a lovely little world to immerse yourself in for a while! I also loved “The House in the Cerulean Sea”. 🩵
The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
If you want fantasy hard to go wrong with the Hogfather, Terry Pratchett.
I also read all the corny and not so corny romance I can get my hands on, lol,
A few hits for me of the last few years for romances, mix of hetero and queer relatioships and various levels of spice:
A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong, Cecilia Grant
Being Merry, Meka James
Jackie Lau, Only One Bed for Christmas
Season of Love, Helena Greer
The Lights on Knockbridge Lane, Roan Parrish