I am just now joining the #SundayBuddyRead & I got behind on the last 2 weeks. But I sat down to catch up today & ended up finishing the whole thing. This is sweet & fluffy with a lot of characters to keep it interesting. Looking forward to the group discussion! 4⭐️ 80 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons

Nightly reading with Jace:
1. Little Red Sleigh 4⭐️🛷
2. Goodnight Santa 4⭐️🎅🏻
3. The Berenstain Bears & The Nutcracker 4⭐️🌰
230 points

Time spent reading today: 3 hours x‘s 3 = 90 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#ReadAway2024
#Adventathon
#LittenListen

Another fun Christmas story for #KindredSpiritsChristmas - I wish more people were like this these days. 4⭐️ 80 points

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#HolidayBookDragons
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#LMMontgomery
#Christmas

This is another super edition I haven‘t read since I was a kid & it was a lot of fun! SVMS‘s choral group is going to Washington, D.C., to perform in a music competition in December. The twins cover for their friend, Anna, who can‘t sing a lick but wants to go to D.C. to meet her long lost sister. Jess & Anna sneak out to the Australian embassy (where her sister lives) & catch a spy who‘s threatening national security. Because of course they do.😆

Today‘s story for #KindredSpiritsChristmas is another good one. An absentminded teacher accidentally invites the wrong family to his landlady‘s house for Christmas dinner, but it‘s a happy mistake. Another reminder of what‘s really important this time of year. 4⭐️ 80 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#Christmas
#LMMontgomery

Nightly reading with Jace:
1. Pick A Pine Tree 4⭐️
2. Happy Narwhalidays 4⭐️
3. Christmas In Wellsworth 4⭐️
4. Christmas With Pooh 3⭐️ 305 points

Time spent reading today is actually 9 hours, I forgot to turn the timer off when I fell asleep 🤦🏻‍♀️ 90 points x‘s 3 = 270 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#ReadAway2024
#Adventathon
#LittenListen
#childrensbooks
#Christmas

I‘m a big fan of the OG Forensic Files & the case of the Rogers women, who were murdered in Tampa Bay by Oba Chandler, has always haunted me. Thomas French wrote a 50,000+ word article for the Tampa Bay Times in 1997 about the case & won a Pulitzer. It‘s grim reading but very well done & I will post a link in the comments. Recommended to anyone interested in this case. 4⭐️ 30 points for impulse read.

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons

If you love Hallmark movies then you‘ll probably enjoy this book. The audio has dual narration & I must say the male narrator has a very sexy voice. 🤓 But I‘m not a huge fan of the female main character. That being said, this is a 5-hour audiobook that is perfectly fluffy & fitting for this time of year. 3⭐️ 80 points

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#HolidayBookDragons
#audiobook
#Christmas
#LittenListen

Book 6 is finished for the #NancyDrewBR - I find it funny we are only 6 books in yet Nancy has met another new person with a property in trouble. 😆 This time it‘s a cult of counterfeiters! And they would have gotten away with it if it weren‘t for those meddling kids! 😅 3.5⭐️ 55 points

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#NancyDrew

Today‘s short story for #KindredSpiritsChristmas is from the 2 chapters in Anne Of Windy Poplars when Katherine Brook comes to Green Gables for Christmas. I‘m a big fan of both Anne miniseries from the 1980s & now I‘m ready for a rewatch! Katherine is an interesting character & it‘s great to see her come out of her shell. Added bonus that she comes for Christmas in the book, as she comes for the summer in the movie. Love this series. 5⭐️

Started a new to me Christmas audiobook today (My December Darling), have been doing rereads of my faves for the past week. Does anybody have any good Christmas audiobook recs for me? 🙃

Nightly reading with Jace:
1. The Berenstain Bears Save Christmas 5⭐️
2. Bear Stays Up For Christmas 4⭐️
3. Llama Llama Holiday Drama 4⭐️230 points

Time spent reading: 5 hours x‘s 3 = 150 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#ReadAway2024
#Adventathon

I got about a month behind on my Marvel Unlimited graphic novel reading and have been playing catch up this past week. 67 graphic novels total for the week (TBR reads) = 3355 points.

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#graphicnovels
#MarvelUnlimited

Today‘s #KindredSpiritsChristmas read is another sweet reminder of what‘s really important at Christmastime. 4⭐️ 80 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#LMMontgomery
#Christmas
#novella

It was a Chipmunk kind of night! Nightly reading with Jace:
1. Merry Christmas, Mr. Carroll! 5⭐️
2. The Reason For The Season 4⭐️
3. Santa Harry 4⭐️
4. A Chipmunk Christmas 5⭐️
5. A Chipmunk Family Christmas 4⭐️ 380 points

Time spent reading today: 7 hours x‘s 4 = 280 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#ReadAway2024
#ChristmasCardReadathon
#Adventathon
#LittenListen
#Chipmunks
#Christmas

I freaking love this book and try to listen to it every year. It‘s so funny and heartwarming. It‘s only an hour and a half on audio and it‘s on Hoopla if anyone is interested. And now I‘m excited to watch the movie! 5⭐️

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#audiobook
#Littenlisten
#Christmas

80 points

Book 24 in the Hamish Macbeth series has quite the stack of dead bodies by the end. Not my favorite but I love this series. 4⭐️ 55 points

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#HolidayBookDragons
#cozymystery
#MCBeaton
#audiobook

I‘m catching up on my daily French children‘s book reads (I read them out loud to help with my pronunciation).
7 Hello Kitty books
6 Babar books
And Ne Laissez Pas Le Pigeon Conduire Le Bus 😆

10 TBR = 500 points
4 Christmas/Winter Themed = 305 points

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#HolidayBookDragons
#LivresEnFrancais

Up today for #KindredSpiritsChristmas is bittersweet & gives you all the feels. Nanny is worried everyone has forgotten about dear Miss Avis, who passed away during the previous year. One by one each member of the family visits the cemetery to talk to Avis while Nanny is hiding in the bushes. I‘m not crying, you‘re crying! 5⭐️

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#LMMontgomery
#Christmas
#novella

80 points

Nightly reading with Jace:
1. Mickey Mouse Goes Christmas Shopping 4⭐️
2 Winnie The Pooh & The Christmas Tree 3⭐️
3. Thomas Gets A Snowplow 4⭐️
4. A Lucky Christmas 4⭐️
5. Merry Christmas, Splat 4⭐️
6. All Aboard The Polar Express 3⭐️ 455 points

Also watched Mickey‘s Christmas Carol 5 points

Time spent reading yesterday: 4 hours = 40 x‘s 4 = 160 points.

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#ReadAway2024
#Adventathon
#ChristmasCardReadathon

A fun Christmas fantasy where Jessica‘s toy elf, a present from Great Aunt Helen, comes to life and tasks the Snoopers club with finding a missing magic bell that belongs on Santa‘s sleigh. Would that we all had such chill parents when we were 7 years old. 😆 4⭐️ 80 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#Christmas
#SweetValley
#SweetValleyKids
#SVK
#twins
#nostalgia

This was another fun Sweet Valley Christmas book. This time, it‘s Sweet Valley‘s take on A Christmas Carol. Jess does something very selfish where Liz is concerned & is visited by the ghosts of Christmases past, present & future. I must admit the part where she sees her high school self alone & unpopular was especially funny to me, because that would never happen lol. 4⭐️

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#HolidayBookDragons
#SweetValley
#SweetValleyTwins
#SVT

Today‘s read for #KindredSpiritsChristmas is a great reminder of how it‘s more blessed to give than receive. 4⭐️ 80 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#LMMontgomery
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#Christmas
#novella

Nightly reading with Jace:
1. The 13 Days Of Christmas 3.5⭐️
2. The Berenstain Bears Trim The Tree 3⭐️
3. The Enchanted Christmas 4⭐️
4. Donald‘s Christmas Gift 4⭐️ 305 points

Watched:
1. The Christmas List (it‘s on YouTube FYI!)
2. The Bridge 10 points

Time spent reading yesterday 2 hours 30 minutes = 25 points x‘s 4 = 100 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#ReadAway2024
#ChristmasCardReadathon
#Adventathon
#LittenListen

It was hard to scrunch all the pages to fit in the picture so if the powers that be need to see a clearer picture just let me know. For the holiday word search I found 1,638 words x‘s 10 = 16,380 points plus 5 points for the post. 🤓

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#wordsearch

Book 4 in the Quinn family saga is done. I love all of the books but this is my least favorite if I had to pick one. Mainly because it‘s over but also it ends on a sad note. Still, it comes to feel like these are real people you could go & visit on Nantucket. I‘d highly recommend this series! 5⭐️

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#audiobook
#Nantucket
#Christmas
#WinterStreet

80 points

Nightly reading with Jace:
1. Ten Timid Ghosts On A Christmas Night 4⭐️
2. The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear 4⭐️
3. Don‘t Shake The Present! 4⭐️
4. The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas 5⭐️
5. Snowmen At Night 4⭐️
6. Frosty The Snowman 3.5⭐️
7. Where‘s Santa Claus? 2.5⭐️
8. Andy‘s Christmas Puppy 4⭐️ 605 points.

Time spent reading yesterday: 6 hours 30 minutes = 65 points.

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#ReadAway2024
#childrensbooks

This was one of my favorites growing up & I forgot how much fun it is. It‘s the Sweet Valley spin on It‘s A Wonderful Life & it is hilarious. Nostalgia at its finest! What would happen if Elizabeth had never been born? Well, brace yourselves: the Wakefields are divorced, Steven has a tattoo (😳😦), the Unicorn club is now known as the Sharks 🦈 (😅) and they smoke cigarettes. Denny & Sarah are dead, Jessica is unpopular & unfashionable. ⬇️

Another cute and cozy short Christmas story by the master LMM. It‘s only 17 pages but still gives you the warm fuzzies and has the cozy, comforting vibe present in all of her stories. 5⭐️ 80 points.

Time spent reading today: 4 hours = 40 points.

#KindredSpiritsChristmas
#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#ReadAway2024
#LMMontgomery
#Christmas

Got a little behind on posting. I read the tagged book a few years ago so I‘m familiar with most of these stories but I‘m enjoying this reread for #KindredSpiritsChristmas - this is another really good one. I so prefer LMM over others like Louisa May Alcott (although I do like her) because of the humor she injects into all of her stories. 4.5⭐️

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#LMMontgomery
#Christmas

80 points

Ok time spent reading today: 4 hours 30 minutes = 45 points.

Reading with Jace:
1. A Very McStuffins Christmas 4⭐️🎅🏻
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas 5⭐️🎄
3. The Last Train For Christmas 4⭐️🤶🏻 230 points

Also watched Home Alone. Actually watched it twice because Jace is obsessed with it. 😆 5 points

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#Christmas
#childrensbooks
#ReadAway2024

Another sweet short story for #KindredSpiritsChristmas today. It‘s like The Gift of the Magi turned on its head. Theodora lives with her widowed aunt & cousins. When her aunt doesn‘t have enough money to do Christmas for the children, Theodora sneaks out on Christmas Eve to sell a locket given to her by her beloved brother, presumed to be dead. Don‘t want to spoil it but I really liked this one. 4⭐️80 points

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#HolidayBookDragons

Nightly reading with Jace:
1. A Chipmunk Christmas 4⭐️
2. Arthur Decks The Hall 3.5⭐️
3. Santa‘s Little Engine 3⭐️
4. Elmo‘s Countdown To Christmas 4⭐️
5. Dasher 4⭐️
6. Moo, Baa, La La La! 3.5⭐️

Total time spent reading today: 6 hours = 60 points
Book total = 430
Watched my fave Christmas movie It‘s A Wonderful Life - 5 points.

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#HolidayBookDragons
#ReadAway2024
#Christmas
#childrensbooks

Hello everyone! Next up for our Hitchcock buddy read will be Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith which starts on Dec 15th. Anyone is welcome to join. Please let me know if you‘d like to be added or removed from the tag list. Also, we still have about 2 weeks to finish Jamaica Inn. I will post info later this week for a watch party sometime around the 14th. Happy reading everyone!

#HitchToScreen
#Hitchcock
#buddyread

I love Anne of Green Gables and especially the 1985 miniseries. Today‘s reading for #KindredSpiritsChristmas is the short story about Matthew buying Anne a dress with puffed sleeves for Christmas. Matthew is such a sweetheart & this is one of my favorite scenes from the movie. Reading this makes me want to do a reread of the whole series! 5⭐️ 80 points

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#HolidayBookDragons
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#AnneOfGreenGables
#LMMontgomery

Time spent reading today: 9 hours (😳) x‘s 2 = 185 points.

Also watched The Santa Clause today. Makes me feel old as dirt because I saw this in the theater when it came out. 👵🏻 5 points.

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#HolidayBookDragons
#20in4
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Christmas reading tonight with Jace:
1. A Very Mater Christmas 3.5⭐️
2. A Very Mermaid Christmas 4⭐️
3. Cinderella‘s Fairy Merry Christmas 4⭐️
4. Disney Babies Merry Christmas 4⭐️ (so freaking adorable!) 305 points.

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#HolidayBookDragons
#Christmas
#childrensbooks
#Disney

I‘m excited to have Jace join me again for #foodandlit this month. I adore Moomin so this was the perfect opportunity to introduce him to Jace. I used to be very involved in Postcrossing & loved receiving Moomin cards from Finland. All of these were adorable, especially Moomin & The Favourite Thing.

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#HolidayBookDragons
#Moomin
#Finland
#childrensbooks

3 TBR reads & 1 Winter read (tagged book) 230 points.

Three Winter Street books in 3 days is some kind of record for me. Not much else to say that I haven‘t already said except that I highly recommend this series if you haven‘t read it! 5⭐️ 80 points.

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#audiobook
#Christmas
#Nantucket
#WinterStreet

It‘s winter break & the Wakefields & Todd‘s family go on vacation to a ski chalet. Liz is looking forward to spending time with Todd but he soon ditches her for an older boy named Mark, making her feel left out. Todd is being his usual annoying self displayed on full glory in the SVH books. 😆 They make up after Todd gets grounded for going on the intermediate slopes against his parents‘ wishes. 4⭐️ 80 points

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This cute little novella is about a group of siblings who don‘t have any money on Christmas Eve so go about various ways of earning a little something so they can buy food for Christmas dinner. A little schmaltzy but that‘s in keeping with LMA‘s style. 3.5⭐️

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#Christmas
#novella
#LouisaMayAlcott

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Book 2 of Quinn family drama is done! I‘m amazed how fast I speed through these audiobooks every December. I never get tired of them. I love the entire nutty dysfunctional family and I wish the Winter Street Inn was a real place I could visit. 5⭐️ 80 points.

@LiseWorks does this count as a #HolidayTradition ?

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#HolidayBookDragons
#audiobook
#Nantucket
#Christmas

Another good short story for #KindredSpiritsChristmas - Four sisters who live on their own have a rich & very opinionated Aunt Susanna. Two of them are tasked with making Thanksgiving dinner for her & her guests, & problems arise when the neighbors‘ dog gets in the house & destroys the turkey & sides. It all works out & Aunt Susanna decides to pay for one of the girls to go to college. Cute & cozy as always. 4⭐️

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#LMM

This is my first SV Kids super edition & it was really cute. Jess, Liz, Lila, Amy, Eva, Ellen, Winston & Todd start a Snoopers Club to solve mysteries. Their first mystery is finding out if the new school janitor, Chris Kreeger, is really Santa Claus 🎅🏻. He looks like Santa, has a Santa suit and knows things he shouldn‘t know. It makes me miss being a kid. 5⭐️ 80 points

#SweetValley
#SweetValleyKids
#SVK
#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons

Mrs. W. has been spending a lot of time with her wealthy client, Frank. She & Mr. W. forget their anniversary. Jess quickly jumps to conclusions & thinks Mrs. W. is getting ready to run off with Frank & convinces Liz & Steven that their parents are headed for divorce. They quickly come up with some crazy schemes to make Frank think their family is a nightmare & hope he will run for the hills. This one was so funny! As pictured here, Jess stalks⬇️

Time spent reading today: 6 hours 30 minutes = 65 points x‘s 2 + 5 = 135 points.

#ReadAway2024
#20in4
#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons

Nightly reading with Jace:
1. Woody‘s White Christmas 3⭐️
2. D.W.‘s Perfect Present 4⭐️
3. Thomas Saves Christmas 3⭐️
4. A Cars Christmas 4⭐️
5. Lady‘s Christmas Surprise 4⭐️
6. Cooking With The Grinch 4⭐️
7. Arthur‘s Christmas 4⭐️
8. A Monster Machine Christmas 3⭐️

605 points

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#HolidayBookDragons
#Christmas
#childrensbooks

This Christmas novella is part of the Follet Valley cozy mystery series, which is set in France. Richard is a Brit who loves classic movies & runs a fancy B&B in the Follet Valley. Valérie is a bounty hunter of sorts & they team up to solve murders. This one is reminiscent of an Agatha Christie house party murder mystery without the murder. Fun & cozy & perfect for this time of year. 80 points.

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#HolidayBookDragons
#cozymystery

I‘m excited about starting the #KindredSpiritsChristmas stories for the month. Up today is The Genesis of the Doughnut Club. This is a new one to me. I love how even in an 11-page book LMM brings that familiar coziness present in all of her stories. Looking forward to reading these this month. Thanks for organizing this @BarbaraJean !

This is technically a Thanksgiving story & not Christmas so I‘ll count it as a TBR read. 55 points.

This is my favorite Christmas book series and I have been doing a yearly reread every December for the past 7 years. I couldn‘t wait to dive into book 1 today. I love the Quinn family & all of their messy yet relatable drama. And I love escaping to Nantucket & seeing how the other half lives. The audiobooks are excellent! 5⭐️

#WinterGames2024
#HolidayBookDragons
#Christmas
#audiobook
#Nantucket

80 points

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More Christmas reading with Jace:
1. Everett Green & The Not-So Christmas Tree 4⭐️
2. Holly‘s Christmas Eve 3.5⭐️
3. Jingle Wheels 3⭐️
4. The Crayons‘ Christmas 4⭐️
5. A Magical Christmas 3.5⭐️

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#HolidayBookDragons
#Christmas
#childrensbooks

380 points

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