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booklover3258
Happy Holidays | Janet Dailey
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Received my #jolabokaflodswap24 package today! Can't wait until next week to open it. Thanks @vonnie862

@maleficentbookdragon

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Blueberry
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Laughterhp
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Pickpick

This is a low pick for me. I didn‘t really like any of the characters. They were either overly dramatic or blah. I liked that Nory owned a secondhand bookshop and loved books, but she had such a hard time actually selling them? This is set around Christmas and very winter estate, but it‘s not a cutesy holiday romance. More a winter romance drama.

#wintergames2024 #xmaschachas

And now I‘m all caught up!

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Laughterhp
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Pickpick

This was a reread for me! I remembered who the killer was but not all of the other drama. It was still a good mystery!

#wintergames2024 #xmaschacha

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Texreader
A Quilt for Christmas | Sandra Dallas
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Eliza and Will have made a lovely home for themselves and their two children in Kansas but when Will goes to fight for the Union against the “seceshes” (secessionists), Eliza must run the farm mostly alone and face life as “just a woman,” in a very man‘s world. She must decide whether to help an escaped slave, how to deal with brutal thugs who would as soon kill her and her kids as look at her, and whether she should let a secesh help her when ⬇️

Texreader stops at her farm on his way west. Meanwhile, her secesh-hating son, not quite grown, is a help but a hindrance. Eliza has her quilting group and her beautiful Christmas quilt, a gift to her husband on the battlefield, is the thread that partly holds the tale together. It‘s a beautiful story with important lessons for recovering from that traumatic war even today. There‘s still so much hate, and this story shows that it doesn‘t have to be ⬇️ now
Texreader that way. I‘m a southern girl with multiple ancestors who fought for the confederacy. They didn‘t own and never owned slaves. Why did they fight? Were they conscripted? Or went to war because their buddies did? Or were there other reasons? I‘ll never know that much, sadly, but I cannot hate them. My gggrandfather walked home from Raleigh after the south surrendered. His tale is miraculous. I‘d like to think he‘s like the “secesh” in this story. ⬇️ now
Texreader I really appreciated reading how this one family found peace. It really made me think a lot about my genealogical research as well as the fact that there‘s still so much pain today. I don‘t know how we ever find peace but I wish it were so, so much. #letterQ #Christmasatoz #xmaschacha #wintergames @StayCurious (edited) now
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MommyOfTwo
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@Gissy Thank you my #CBBC came today! Such yummy chocolate and the perfect book for this month! @Mommamanzi #coffeebeanbookclub

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bookish_wookish
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Reading and hockey. I‘d say it‘s a pretty good Tuesday night!

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Texreader
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Born.A.Reader
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#wreath within a wreath for today's #ChristmasCheer prompt. 🎄
Tagged, the center piece book, as one of my first Christmas reads each year. A must for any L.M. Montgomery fan.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

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Chelsea.Poole
Christmas Presents | Lisa Unger
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Mehso-so

Am I in a funk? None of my recently read books have been hitting. This was a true so-so. I liked some parts but ultimately it was too unbelievable with a bit much going on. Bookshop owner Maddie and her bff Badger are on the case of a missing woman whose disappearance may be tied to an incident Maddie was involved in during her high school days. There‘s also a podcaster, creepy presents showing up, and Santa!?! Eek. Fine but forgettable.