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message 3: by Tammie (new)

Tammie Tackett Mistletoe: read 2-4 books


message 4: by Elyse (new)

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 572 comments Woot! I'm going all in since it lasts so long.

Christmas Tree: read 5 or 6 books, or more (this is the fanatic level!)
Fa La La La Films: watch a bunch or a few Christmas movies...it's up to you!

Now I must peruse my xmasbooks Goodreads shelf! I do have a couple of NetGalley Christmas books as well. I should get to those first. lol.
A Dog's Perfect Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron A Heartfelt Christmas Promise A Novel by Nancy Naigle


Icy-Cobwebs-Crossing-SpaceTime (readingreindeerproximacentauri) | 162 comments Christmas Tree and NG Christmas ARCs:)


message 6: by writer... (last edited Jan 07, 2021 05:04PM) (new)

writer... (goodreadscomwriter) Annual anticipation!
Signing up for
Christmas Tree
&
Readathon



The Nightingale Before Christmas by Donna Andrews An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke Red Velvet Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #16) by Joanne Fluke Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke Christmas Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen #23) by Joanne Fluke Sugar Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #6) by Joanne Fluke Best Christmas Pagaent Ever by Barbara Robinson
On a Wing and a Prayer by Katherine Valentine A Christmas Secret (Christmas Stories, #4) by Anne Perry A Shot at Love (Sound of Rain, #1.5) by Sarah Loudin Thomas Composed A Memoir by Rosanne Cash The Christmas Note (Christmas Hope, #6) by Donna VanLiere A Christmas Garland (Christmas Stories, #10) by Anne Perry Crewel Yule (A Needlecraft Mystery, #8) by Monica Ferris A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
What Child Is This? A Christmas Story by Caroline B. Cooney The Christmas Visitor by Linda Byler Masquerade at Middlecrest Abbey by Abigail Wilson Before I Called You Mine by Nicole Deese The Christmas Heirloom Four Holiday Novellas of Love Through the Generations by Karen Witemeyer The Ghost of Christmas Past (Molly Murphy #17) by Rhys Bowen The Gift of Christmas Present by Melody Carlson Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
Chicken Soup for the Soul Christmas Magic 101 Holiday Tales of Inspiration, Love, and Wonder by Jack Canfield A Pretty Deceit (Verity Kent #4) by Anna Lee Huber Finish Give Yourself the Gift of Done by Jon Acuff Chocolate Cream Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen #24) by Joanne Fluke The Night Before Christmas by Meryl Streep A Pursuit of Home by Kristi Ann Hunter The Best Christmas Gift by Tim LaHaye The End of the Magi by Patrick W. Carr
Minding Molly (The Courtships of Lancaster County, #3) by Leslie Gould Death of a Dentist by M.C. Beaton Of Literature and Lattes by Katherine Reay Death in a Mood Indigo (A Merry Folger Nantucket Mystery #3) by Francine Mathews Love Mercy (Love Mercy Johnson, #1) by Earlene Fowler A Christmas Coffee by Laura J. Marshall Christmas at Darcy House A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Victoria Kincaid A Question of Betrayal (Elena Standish, #2) by Anne Perry
The Icecutter's Daughter (Land of Shining Water #1) by Tracie Peterson Of Fortune's Reversal A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Don Jacobson Persuasion by Jane Austen Very Merry Mischief by Elizabeth Ann West Christmas by Accident by Camron Wright

Visions of Sugar Plums
The Story of the Nativity With Punch-Out(s)  by Tracy Harrast The Little Toy Shop by Frances Wolfe Boys And Girls of Bookland by Nora Archibald Smith Have You Seen My New Blue Socks? by Eve Bunting Rascal Flatts The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
+ unlisted The Santa I Know by Canadian Kathy Hirst
Merry Christmas, Curious George by Margret Rey A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Fa La La films
A Bramble House Christmas
Paper Angels
The Christmas List
Meet Me at Christmas
Christmas Under Wraps
Christmas Club
The Angel Tree
Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane
The Christmas House
Enchanted Christmas
Christmas Joy
A Timeless Christmas
The Sweetest Christmas


message 7: by Melissa (last edited Dec 22, 2020 12:06PM) (new)

Melissa | 1 comments Joining in for the first time at the Mistletoe level + the readathon! My sign up post is here:
http://melissafirman.com/thankfully-r...

Christmas-themed books read:
A Christmas Journey by Anne Perry

Non-Christmas books read:
My Own Words
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
Wild Blues by Beth Kephart


message 8: by Elyse (last edited Jan 10, 2021 08:45AM) (new)

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 572 comments Ok I've finally got a Christmas-centric TBR:
Read
The Gingerbread House by Laura Gia West Christmas Letters from Hell All the News We Hate from the People We Love by Michael Lent A Dog's Perfect Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron Christmas Carols and Lipstick Perils (Sunshine Cove Cozy Mystery Book 5) by Ava Zuma Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
Reading
A Heartfelt Christmas Promise by Nancy Naigle
To Be Read
The Best Little Christmas Shop by Maxine Morrey


message 9: by Elyse (new)

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 572 comments I read The Gingerbread House by Laura Gia West Christmas Letters from Hell All the News We Hate from the People We Love by Michael Lent yesterday.


message 10: by Michelle (new)

Michelle Stockard Miller (michelleamiller) | 675 comments Mod
Julie wrote: "Awesome - I will definitely be joining.

I challenge myself to the Mistletoe Level + just reading as much as I can manage.

Christmas themed books read:
Murder at Mistletoe Manor

N..."


Welcome! Great list. The Road is really good, but very sad.


message 11: by Michelle (new)

Michelle Stockard Miller (michelleamiller) | 675 comments Mod
writer... wrote: "Annual anticipation!
Signing up for
Christmas Tree
Readathon
Visions of Sugar Plums
Fa La La films

The Nightingale Before Christmas by Donna Andrews [bookcover:An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Go..."


Great list! Glad you're joining us again.

Check your messages! Trying to get in touch with you regarding posting the first review. :)


message 12: by Michelle (new)

Michelle Stockard Miller (michelleamiller) | 675 comments Mod
Tammie wrote: "Mistletoe: read 2-4 books"

Welcome! Thanks for joining us!


message 13: by Michelle (new)

Michelle Stockard Miller (michelleamiller) | 675 comments Mod
Elyse wrote: "Woot! I'm going all in since it lasts so long.

Christmas Tree: read 5 or 6 books, or more (this is the fanatic level!)
Fa La La La Films: watch a bunch or a few Christmas movies...it's up to you!..."


Glad to have you with us again! Hoping to get more Christmas reading in this year. I'm already reading this Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva


message 14: by Michelle (new)

Michelle Stockard Miller (michelleamiller) | 675 comments Mod
Elyse wrote: "I read The Gingerbread House by Laura Gia West Christmas Letters from Hell All the News We Hate from the People We Love by Michael Lent yesterday."

Woot!


message 15: by Michelle (new)

Michelle Stockard Miller (michelleamiller) | 675 comments Mod
Elyse wrote: "Ok I've finally got a Christmas-centric TBR:
The Gingerbread House by Laura Gia West A Dog's Perfect Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron A Heartfelt Christmas Promise A Novel by Nancy Naigle [b..."


Great list!


Liander (The Towering Pile) Lavoie (liannelavoie) | 8 comments Slightly late posting here, but I'm in! I'll do the challenge at the Mistletoe level (2-4 books), because I think that's about how many Christmas books I have on my TBR, and hopefully I'll get to them this month. I guess I'll also say I'm read-a-thoning, since I am pushing to reach some reading goals this year! And of course I'll do Fa La La La Films, because I LOVE Christmas movies! I've already started on the movies so I'll count all the ones I've watched since this event officially started.

Fa La La La Films:
1) A Christmas Prince
2) Christmas Inheritance
3) The Holiday Calendar
4) The Christmas Chronicles
5) A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding


Icy-Cobwebs-Crossing-SpaceTime (readingreindeerproximacentauri) | 162 comments I've read 3 of 6+!

Today The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries is only $1.99 on Kindle:)


Icy-Cobwebs-Crossing-SpaceTime (readingreindeerproximacentauri) | 162 comments So far, 5 read:
Christmas Tree Level



Christmas Titles Read:

1. NUTS AT CHRISTMAS (British Holiday Comedy)

2. CARFAX HOUSE (British Paranormal Christmas Ghost Story)

3. THE DAUGHTER CLAUSE (Santa Claus Family women's fic)

4. MIDWINTER MURDER by Agatha Christie (short story collection: Christmas, Yule, Winter)

5. SNOWED IN by Rhoda Baxter (British Christmas Cozy)


message 19: by Julie (new)

Julie | 2 comments With Denmark in more less total lockdown again, I have little to do but read (when I'm not working)... this is good news for this reading challenge/readathon

I'm currently at:
Christmas books: 8
Non-Christmas books: 15

Favorite christmas book so far: Christmas on the Island (I discovered it was part of a series, so now I will have to read the other books 😉)

Favorite non-christmas book so far: The Road


message 20: by Elyse (new)

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 572 comments I read A Dog's Perfect Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron Nov 29-30 and so far that's the last Christmas book I've read. I'm up to 3 so I need to read a couple more!


message 22: by writer... (new)

writer... (goodreadscomwriter) Great News on Winter's Respite! Excited for that as usual. Perfect follow to Christmas Spirit.. thanks for keeping it going Michelle!


message 23: by Elyse (last edited Dec 28, 2020 06:35AM) (new)

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 572 comments I'm 30% through Christmas Carols and Lipstick Perils (Sunshine Cove Cozy Mystery Book 5) by Ava Zuma and then I plan on reading Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien this week. A Heartfelt Christmas Promise by Nancy Naigle will have to be during the last few days of the readathon in 2021! Which will bring my total to 6 Christmas books read which was my goal.


message 24: by Elyse (last edited Jan 01, 2021 08:04AM) (new)

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 572 comments I finished Christmas Carols and Lipstick Perils (Sunshine Cove Cozy Mystery Book 5) by Ava Zuma and also read Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien . I'm hoping to start A Heartfelt Christmas Promise by Nancy Naigle by Sunday.

Happy New Year!


message 25: by Elyse (new)

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 572 comments I did start A Heartfelt Christmas Promise by Nancy Naigle yesterday and am 25% through. Hoping to finish by tomorrow night! ;) It's actually pretty good so far.


Icy-Cobwebs-Crossing-SpaceTime (readingreindeerproximacentauri) | 162 comments A lot of reading, just not a lot of Christmas.
Read 7
https://malloryheartscozies.blogspot....


message 27: by Elyse (new)

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 572 comments Read
The Gingerbread House by Laura Gia West Christmas Letters from Hell All the News We Hate from the People We Love by Michael Lent A Dog's Perfect Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron Christmas Carols and Lipstick Perils (Sunshine Cove Cozy Mystery Book 5) by Ava Zuma Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
Reading
A Heartfelt Christmas Promise by Nancy Naigle

I did meet the goal I chose and read 5 Christmas-themed books. I did not finish my 6th one but I hope to finish it today. It's been a very reading-less week.


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