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#WinterGames24 #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks 740 pts

My first holiday read is in the books! I'll admit I started with this one bc it fulfills a prompt of having to read a book by someone who has been incarcerated. If you didn't already know, Anne Perry is the pen name for Juliet Hulme, whose crime is portrayed in Heavenly Creatures, and for which she served some time. It's rather fitting that this book is about finding redemption at Christmas.

I was expecting a mystery that just happened to be set at Christmas. This book was so much more. It is about forgiveness, redemption, self understanding, and the salvation that was born into this world on the first Christmas (whatever time of year it may really have been). I think if you are a believer or a non-believer there are many layers that you might appreciate.

I liked this. I went into it totally blind so I had absolutely no idea what kind of book it was, but I really enjoyed it. Kinda gave me Downton Abbey vibes. Three and a half stars.
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Another book down for #BookSpinBingo, #DashingDecember, and #WinterSolstice! I‘ve read all three Anne Perry titles on my #BookSpin list and they were all enjoyable. Very Victorian, very mannered, with wonderfully descriptive settings. This one was a journey indeed, but it probably was the fastest read of the three. The mystery was there, but the characters are the focus. Of the three Perry titles I read, Christmas Beginning was my favorite.

Nice #holidayread 🎄😊 #wintergames #tmskellington @Crimson613 @Clwojick @StayCurious

Another book for this one! #WinterBookBingo

Position in the Aristocracy is everything, and Isobel‘s has just been threatened. A young lady has thrown herself into the lake after Isobel made a cruel remark about her at dinner. Now she must go on a journey of forgiveness. +21 for a #HolidayRead #MerryReaders #WinterGames

I‘m calling it a night. Pretty proud of my Day 1 time #24B42020

#BookReport
Say Nothing: #nonfiction Goal was 25 pages; read 8
A Christmas Journey: #audiobook:finished. Different than what I expected, themes of the power of words to wound, redemption, & the oppressiveness of English upper class social mores at the time.
Guidebook to Murder: #Mysteryoftheweek: exceeded goal; approx an hour left.
A Noel killing: #HoludayCheer: just started, ph. 29,not projected half way through novel.

2.5 ⭐ I think I would have liked this more if the characters weren't so terrible to each other.
#wintergames #tmskellington @Crimson613 #holidayread

#BookAdventCalendar
At a house party that Lady Vespasia Cummings-Gould attends, a young woman, Gwendolyn,commits suicide,the woman perceived as responsible,Isabella, is ostracized.A decision is made:if Isabella embarks on a pilgrimage to the Scottish highlands,finds Gwendolyn‘s mother,delivers her daughter‘s last letter,explains daughter‘s death & her role in it,she can expiate her guilt & find redemption.Vespasia accompanies her on the journey.

Audiobook #holidayread while I put laundry away. #tmskellington #wintergames @Crimson613

This series is so popular at my library, I‘m glad I waited until after the holidays to start reading. I like Anne Perry‘s work, and I enjoyed this novella set around Christmas. It features a side character, Vespasia, from the Thomas Pitt series (haven‘t read that yet) helping a friend on a sort of mercy mission to the north of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to pass along news of a suicide she thinks she played a part in. 3.5 stars, and happy to have read it!

"Love is not perfection." Insightful quote from a lovely little novel.

The opening paragraphs of A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY make me happy. 😊🎄🎁