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The Christmas Lights
The Christmas Lights | Karen Swan
34 posts | 9 read | 7 to read
Set on the scenic fjords of Norway, The Christmas Lights by bestselling author Karen Swan is a moving Christmas tale of love and heartbreak. December 2018, and free-spirited Influencers Bo Loxley and her partner Zac are living a life of wanderlust, travelling the globe and sharing their adventures with their millions of fans. Booked to spend Christmas in the Norwegian fjords, they set up home in a remote farm owned by enigmatic mountain guide Anders and his fierce grandmother Signy. Surrounded by snowy peaks and frozen falls, everything should be perfect. But the camera can lie and with every new post, the perfect life Zac and Bo are portraying is diverging from the truth. Something Bo cant explain is wrong at the very heart of their lives and Anders is the only person wholl listen. June 1936, and fourteen-year old Signy is sent with her sister and village friends to the summer pastures to work as milkmaids, protecting the herd that will sustain the farm through the long, winter months. But miles from home and away from the safety of their families, threat begins to lurk in friendly faces . . . The mountains keep secrets - Signy knows this better than anyone - and as Bos life begins to spiral she is forced, like the old woman before her, to question who is friend and who is foe.
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BarkingMadRead
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Cupcake12
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Catsandbooks 🍭❄️❤️ 4mo
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kezzlou85
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#WinterGames #ReindeerGamers #DailyPhotoChallenge @LiseWorks Day 7 #Lights
Well this is my house lit up for Christmas. Our neighbours little ones love seeing it. Even the delivery driver for our local Chinese asked when we were putting them up last time we saw him. It's not much but cheers the area up.

LiseWorks Love the purple 💜 4mo
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Lizpixie
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#WinterReadathonDailyChallenge Todays challenge was Xmas lights so I thought I‘d be a bit nostalgic and show you what my house looked like for Xmas 2018. This is just a few spots of my yard, it had sooo much more going on! I‘ve always loved the lights, being able to walk out my front door & be among them was fantastic. Unfortunately haven‘t put them up since then, but I live in hope. My favourite display was the top picture with the cactus & dog!

Andrew65 These are fantastic 🎄🎄🎄 1y
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JacqMac
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Our city‘s Christmas tree. We haven‘t seen it yet, but we plan on visiting next week.
#WinterReadathonDailyChallenge #WinterReadathon #christmaslights
@DieAReader @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES

Thndrstd Beautiful 1y
Andrew65 Wow! Fabulous! 🎄🎄🎄 1y
DieAReader 🎄🎄🎄 1y
LeahBergen Beautiful!! 1y
Rissreads Which city is that? 1y
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kspenmoll
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#winterreadathon #winterreadathondailychallenge #ChristmasLights #Dec14

Not this year‘s tree because it‘s not decorated yet, but this is out our tree 2 years ago. Some years we go with white lights; other years we go with multicolored lights.

LeahBergen So pretty! 🎄 1y
Andrew65 That‘s a wonderful tree 🎄🎄🎄 1y
Ncostell Beautiful! 1y
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Texreader Gorgeous!! 1y
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 1y
batsy So pretty! 1y
Gissy Lovely😍🎄💚❤️💚❤️ 1y
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Yuki_Onna
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AllDebooks That's so pretty 😍 1y
DieAReader ♥️♥️♥️ 1y
Andrew65 That‘s lovely. 🎄🎄🎄 (edited) 1y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 🕯️❤️ 1y
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kezzlou85
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#WinterReadathonDailyChallenge
A picture of my house as we have a few lights on it and in the garden. Always lovely to see children get excited when they come by.
#WinterReadathon.
@Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Andrew65 That looks lovely, the Christmas lights always brighten up neighbourhoods at this time of year. 1y
DieAReader ♥️♥️♥️ 1y
kezzlou85 @Andrew65 yeah I love going around and seeing them all. There's a road near here that all get involved. It's stunning. 1y
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EadieB
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#WinterReadathonDailyChallenge

20pts.

Total pts - 465

I thought I would do some books of Christmas Lights,

Andrew65 Great choices 🎄☃️🎄 1y
DieAReader 🎄🎄🎄 1y
EadieB @Andrew65 Thanks! 1y
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5feet.of.fury
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#ChristmasLights #WinterReadathon

This is a house in my friend‘s hometown Hudson, MA and we stopped by it after a Holiday Shopping Stroll. There‘s music and 100000 LEDs synced to it

Andrew65 Wow! 🎄🎄🎄 1y
RaeLovesToRead Oh my goodness!!!! 1y
TheSpineView Wow! That is so over the top! I love it!!!❤️🎄 1y
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5feet.of.fury @Andrew65 @RaeLovesToRead @TheSpineView isn‘t it THE MOST! The homeowner and his daughter came out in Christmas sweaters and handed out candy canes 1y
TheSpineView How wonderful! 1y
DivineDiana Great photo! It looks like a movie still! 1y
5feet.of.fury @DivineDiana I wish i could post the video here, it was mind blowing! 1y
DivineDiana I can imagine! 🎄🤯🎅🏻 1y
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Andrew65
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Dec 14th #WinterReadathonDailyChallenge #WinterReadathon

For today‘s Daily Challenge I‘m putting the tag #ChristmasLights out there and want to see what people come up with for their post. Whether that be images of Christmas Lights, their own or others, books that include the themes or words in the title etc. Time to let the creative juices flow.

Hint, these aren‘t my lights 😂, but loved the colours and reflections. Courtesy of Richmond Times.

RebelReader Beautiful! 1y
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AnnR Those are really pretty lights. Quite spectacular actually. 1y
TheSpineView Thanks for the tag! 1y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Those are gorgeous 1y
wanderinglynn Beautiful! 1y
DieAReader Beautiful!♥️♥️ 1y
Soubhiville Oooo, that‘s pretty. 1y
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maich
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vonnie862
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Magpiegem
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Every year my family and I go on a drive of the area looking at the best and brightest Xmas lights. We finish at a house which is. bananas about Christmas lights and they raise money for charity from all the people that come to see it. It‘s lovely BUT is this not the most terrifying Christmas decoration you have ever seen! My kids are traumatized 😂 #wintergames2021 #teamgamesleighers #selfiescavangerhunt #christmastraditions

Clwojick 💚💚💚 2y
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vonnie862
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A house nearby went all out by decorating it like National Lapoon's Vacation. They were even featured on the news.
#festivelights #FestivePhotoChallenge #teamgamesleighers #WinterGames2021
@StayCurious

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kezzlou85
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Trying to get more involved this week. Today's #FestivePhotoChallenge is festive lights. These ate the lights on my house we have more on the side as well. The local young children seem to love it as do my ones despite being older. 11pts for #MistletoeManiacs #WinterGames2021
@Clwojick

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Andrew65
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BeckyWithTheGoodBooks
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Charityann
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Visiting the holiday lights is a #familytradition. 😊🎄#mistletoemaniacs #wintergames2021 @Clwojick

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TheSpineView
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Eggs
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OriginalCyn620 Festive! 🌟 3y
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Kshakal
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Took my niece to see the magical Christmas lights in a local park!

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MallenNC
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If you want a Christmas book with #lights in the title, there are lots of options! The tagged book sounds good. #HollyJollyReading

OriginalCyn620 It does! Pretty cover too! 4y
MallenNC @OriginalCyn620 I like the cover! 4y
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GGreen

Cafe sign...
“the more you weigh, the harder you are to kidnap: eat cake.”

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Kshakal
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Went and saw the beautiful Christmas lights tonight with my parents!!

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I was drawn to this by the prospect of a Christmassy book with a historical fiction element to it. It actually doesn‘t have much Christmas in it until near the very end, but I enjoyed it all the same. I learned so much about a country, landscape and history I knew very little about. The main focus is definitely on the modern part, and I‘m not sure the historical was actually needed in the end. Still I‘m glad it was there because it was interesting

BookaholicNatty This looks like a great Christmas read!!! 5y
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Kshakal
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Braved the frigid temperatures to go see some Christmas lights!!! 🎄

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I don‘t know where you‘re at, but it looks very cold and very brave! Adorable picture, definitely frame that one! 5y
Kshakal @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I am in Wisconsin and it is a whole zero degrees!! And I am for sure framing it... she doesn‘t smile in pics all that often but when she does it is like gold! 5y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Kshakal We so rarely print out and frame anymore, but that smile in the middle of all that winter wear is adorable. 5y
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This was a really good read. It jumps from present times with Bo's story to the past as we learn about Signy's life. They're are some really clever twists in this that I didn't see coming. I loved the ending and it finished the story perfectly, exactly how I wanted it to. I loved the time jumps and the setting is incredible. A great read that's more than your typical Christmas story.
#Netgalley

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kezzlou85
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Well I didn't beat last month but actually ended up with more hours than I thought and even finished a book. November has definitely been my lowest month for reading, hopefully December will be better.
Thank you for hosting @TheReadingMermaid and @Andrew65
#24B4Monday

BeansPage You're very welcome and here's to next month being better for you 🥂. Although I still think you did great 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y
kezzlou85 @TheReadingMermaid Aww thank you. X 5y
Andrew65 @TheReadingMermaid I agree with you, @kezzlou85 you did a great job and well done on the hours you clocked up. 👍👏👏👏😊. November has been a bit of low point in reading for me too. Next month hopefully will be better for both of us. We look forward to you joining in our special end of year Readathon. 5y
kezzlou85 @Andrew65 Thanks. Hope next month's better for you too. Ooh that sounds exciting. 5y
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kezzlou85
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Well this was yesterday's total so I'm at 7 hours 52 mins. Hopefully a little more today. Don't think I'm gonna beat my total from last time.
#24B4Monday @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65

Andrew65 Still a very good total. 👍 5y
BeansPage You're doing great hon! 5y
kezzlou85 @TheReadingMermaid aww thank you. 5y
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JennyM
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And suddenly I‘m feeling festive - the first fluff-but-festive read of the season 🎄🎄🎄

jenreads7 Fluff and festive is exactly what books should be this time of year! 📚 🎄 5y
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