December 2025 #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! I really enjoyed Snowed In for Christmas - I look forward to Sarah Morgan's new Christmas book every year!! 3w
bookandbedandtea @TheAromaofBooks This is my 2nd Sarah Morgan book and I adored both of them! I'm going to prioritize her backlist because this is exactly what I need right now! ❤️🎄 The one I read last year was![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
The Book Club Hotel 3w
The Book Club HotelTheAromaofBooks I LOVED Book Club Hotel!! I actually have it on my reread pile this year!! I really love how she pretty much always has her married couples find reconciliation and renewal together instead of storming off to have an affair, and also how so much of her story focuses on relationships between mothers, daughters, and sisters. She manages to tackle some difficult themes without the whole book becoming a sadness slog. 3w
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bookandbedandtea @TheAromaofBooks I agree will all of that! I love how her families (so far) actually like each other and actively work out their issues. I identified hard with Glenda in this one as I often can't say the right things to my adult kids. 3w
TheAromaofBooks One I read a couple of years ago was a lot about a mother who wasn't a great mother when her daughters were growing up so the daughters pretty much had cut her off as adults. Now, years later, the mother is wanting to change her life and reconcile with them. I felt like Morgan handled it so well, the difficulty of deciding what to do about second chances and reconciliation for someone who has hurt you in the past.One More for Christmas 3w
One More for Christmasbookandbedandtea @TheAromaofBooks Ohhh that one sounds sad but I'm starting to trust Morgan with those difficulties. It's going on the list! 3w
TheAromaofBooks It was so good!! You can trust me to never recommend a sad book 😂 They are NOT my jam! The only thing about this one that annoyed me was the one sister was OBSESSED with her kids believing in Santa because apparently the ONLY WAY to have Christmas magic is via Santa. Since I grew up in a not-Santa household where Christmas absolutely reeked of magic and happy surprises, her attitude started to annoy me after a while haha 3w
bookandbedandtea @TheAromaofBooks Good to know! I'm not a fan of sad books so I'll remember that you don't recommend them. Re Santa...I come from a Santa family and have always had fun with that, both as a kid and a an adult, but I agree that a focus on Santa is weird. I mean, every kid stops believing at some point yet the magic of Christmas remains and isn't dependent on Santa. 2w
TheAromaofBooks Right? I've never been anti-Santa but I do feel like some parents go over the top with it a bit 😂 At any rate, it was only a minor niggle in an otherwise very enjoyable book haha And I just reread The Book Club Hotel the other day and just so thoroughly enjoyed it!! Yesterday I read a similar (although not quite as good) book, The White Christmas Inn by Colleen Wright, so you might enjoy that one, too!! 2w
bookandbedandtea @TheAromaofBooks I just read One More For Christmas & loved it. Thanks for the suggestion! I see what you meant about the Santa stuff but don't know if I'd have noticed it without you mentioning it, probably because I do come from a Santa family. I did find I was slightly annoyed by every scene Tabitha was in. I tried to remind myself that she's not even 5, & is actually quite charming & realistic, but I didn't want to be dealing with a child. 🫣 4d
TheAromaofBooks Oh yay! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! I still haven't picked up her latest (A Merry Little Lie) although it's on my shelf. 4d
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