Love your cozy Christmas TBR, Gina! Dying to know what you think about The Country House Hotel! I'll be reading Miss Read's Christmas Tales this month (the same edition you have!) - yay! 😍🎄💚 You have to listen to the audio book of The Letters to Father Christmas while you look at the photos...it's the best combination! So many awesome Christmas book choices ☺🎅🏼❤
The dark days are cozy but so not great for filming! Same problem here. I love "everything's a definite maybe." 🙂 I'm glad I'm not the only person who has favorite cookbooks and flags recipes and never cooks them. It's just so fun!
I adored Rosamunde Pilcher when I discovered her decades ago. I read everything she had written almost all back to back but I haven’t reread any of them. Perhaps I’ll pick up Winter Solstice.
Such a fun video - thank you. I was looking at the books behind and saw the name 'Pilcher'. The font looked familiar and I turned my chair around and looked on my bookshelf and found a copy of Winter Solstice! I was so excited. It wasn't on my TBR - was amongst some books picked up in the thrift shop but I've placed it right near the top now. Thank you
Your choices sound cozy. I have too many books I want to finish before the year is out, but I’m aware that December is a crazy busy time so I’m going to plan accordingly.
Hi Gina, You have a lovely selection of books to read over the Christmas season. I read No Holly for Miss Quinn a couple of weeks ago for the first time & really enjoyed it. I like the look of The Edwardian country Christmas. 😊xxxx
I love your picks! Im hoping to get to a few more holiday reads this season though I don't think I'll have time to read them all! Christmas by the Book which you mentioned, is on my list but I don't have a copy of it yet! The other books are The Twelve Dogs of Christmas by Susan Wiggs, A Christmas Carol, One Day in December by Josie Silver, Christmas in Painted Pony Creek by Linda Lael Miller, A Little Christmas Spirit and Road to Christmas (both by Sheila Roberts), and a couple of Christmas thrillers: The Visitor by Sergio Gomez, Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict, and The Christmas Holiday by Mikayla Davids.😊
I just bought Winter in Thrush Green as a good cozy December book, I feel like I was just reading Thrush Green sat in a sunny park and now it's freezing!
Hi Gina….book crush….I love that term. So many books that you highlighted are already my favorites. I read Winter Solstice in November for the first time. Oh my goodness,what an atmospheric book. 🎄
Ahhh i love your videos Gina! ❤️ Winter solstice was SO good. Last winter i read all the Miss Read Christmas stories/books. Also SO good. The Willows at Christmas by William Horwood was good too. This year i am going to be flipping through the Susan Branch Christmas editions and the Miss Read Christmas book. I might also read some Flora Thompson because ive never tried her before. I love Christmas time so much. Its all full of magic and excitement. But i struggle with the remainder of the long winter here in North Dakota. It was good to see your beautiful smile! ❤
Happy December! I have just finished reading The Thorn Birds with a very old copy borrowed from my mum and im just about to start Winter Solstice which i read every winter. I love this cosy time of year. It is starting to get really cold here in the UK!
OMG I read that many many years ago and remember loving it! I picked up an old second hand paperback this summer with the intention of rereading it but never got around to it! Isn't Winter Solstice the best? I love it so much!
Such a marvellous bunch of books, it really will put anyone in a festive mood!!🎄. I would love to read No holly for Miss Quinn, Edwardian House Christmas and the Susan Branch!!❤. I am going to wish you a very Happy Christmas Gina!! 📚🛍️🎅.
Right? It drags me down. I'm from southern California originally and have still not adjusted (even though I've been here now since 1991! Longer than I was in California even!)
Your holiday reading plans sound lovely. I plan on reading Mary Stewart all winter interspersed with books from my piles of unread books. I just finished Madame Will You Speak? These books are the perfect antidote for a rainy cold Pacific Northwest winter. Part of Madame Will you Speak was set in Avignon, France, so a Rick Steve's video about Avignon was a perfect pairing. No Holly for Miss Quinn is my favorite Christmas book ever, although I love Winter Solstice too! Last year, I made Shepard's pie for dinner to go with the story. It was very cozy! Happy reading, Valerie
We both have excellent taste in books :) That is one of my favorite Mary Stewarts! She is so atmospheric and has the perfect level of suspense and romance for me.
Sounds cosy and I wish you some nice cold sunny days (not sure what your climate is like, but I love those). I found a Miss Read Christmas at Fairacre with multiple stories. I knew of Miss Read through you and I found a book of hers in an English bookshop. I liked it and am looking forward to the Christmassy ones 😊
@@GinaStanyerBooks Ouch best of luck 🤞 I think I would miss winter in California. I'm from The Netherlands, we have quite clear distinctions between the seasons
I am ALSO presently reading Christmas By The Book!! I'm enjoying it! I loved The Book Club Hotel, finished that 2 wks. ago. I have many Christmas Collections out to peruse through. Poetry collections, story collections, anthologies, AND Winter Solstice, thanks to you on a different tube of yours. I'm REALLY looking forward to reading that.Also read Christmas At Fair acre (?) it was 2 stories in one. A few others,too. Actually bought a red, white and green bin to put all the Christmas Bks. in that I want to read. Oops! a!most forgot A Child's Christmas In Wales, read it every Christmas time. Thanks Gina!!!🤗🤗
Hi there, Gina. Me too, probably mostly mood and whim reading, as usual. Im buying a lot of the Dean Street Press Furrowed Middlebrow books and am reading A Winter Away by E. Fair. So the book is wintery but i live in so. CA , altho we've had raindrops, mostly at night, as typical. 😅 im going to read Poirot's Christmas in Dec since i havent read yet. So im trying. I read A Fine Romance, need more S Branch! Such talented wonderful lady! Happy reading 😊. ( if not cooking 😄)
I love those Furrowed Middlebrow reprints so much! (I just wish that the logo on the spines match up - it bugs me a bit when they are on the shelf LOL)
Loved all your December books, Gina ☺ I read Winter Solstice for the first time a couple of years back at Christmas and it was the perfect read! I'll look forward to re reading it at some point 🙂I've just re read Little Women which always seems like the best wintry book!
I’m in a strange reading mood, more winter-y/cozy than Christmas, but I did check out a few Christmas to try, especially want to try Last Christmas in Paris. Have you read Branch’s Home for Christmas 🎅- it’s little and has Santa on front! It was SO sweet! About her childhood Christmas!
Hi Amy, I just put Last Christmas in Paris on hold at the library. I hope it comes in before the end of the month! I haven't read Home for Christmas. I am on a hunt to collect all the Susan Branch books though. I love her a lot.
Enjoy your cozy reads! I didn't do much of any reading during November on account of NaNoWriMo, so I hope to start getting back into the swing this month.
@@GinaStanyerBooksI got to 57K, consisting mostly of my handwritten project plus journal entries, blog posts, and a few other things. That's one of my lowest final wordcounts, but I still overachieved (past the 50K minimum), and I've been working hard on slowly regaining my usual writing habits and daily output since they were thrown into such disorder by lockdown and the cancelling of all in-person write-ins for two years. My highest ever wordcount was just shy of 131K, and the next-best was 101K. Eventually I hope to be back to that kind of NaNo.
I read "Winter Solstice" a while ago, based on your recommendation. I liked it a lot. Re-reading it would be a totally different experience, wouldn't it? Since you may remember much of what happens to who, and when. And yes, the last scene sticks with you. There's no getting away from that one! I'll consider picking it up again, on some snowy weekend. Thanks!
@@GinaStanyerBooksYES. I just finished reading it and was actually so disappointed that there wasnt a present opening. I guess the book cant go on forever! I didnt want it to end.
Hi Gina, After I finish the Tales from Ivy Hill series today I''m going to start Starry Night by Debbie Macomber for Sarah's readathon. Then I'll move on to The Winter Lodge by Susan Wiggs, After that will be One Day in December by Josie Silver. And I'll end the month with The Christmas Joyride by Melody Carlson. I like romance in December. Glad you're enjoying Christmas by the Book. Will check if A CountryHouse Christmas is digital.
since you're a Miss Read expert, do you think I can read her Christmas's books even if I never read her books before? I know that there are specific series.....thank you!
Yes, you could definitely read No Holly For Miss Quinn, and the novellas. The only one I wouldn't read is Christmas at Thrush Green, since it's the very last in the series.
I love Christmas. This year I put aside 24 books I bought throughout the year, and wrapped and numbered them. It's my own bookish advent calendar 🎄🎁📚
Omg Lisa, i absolutely love that idea. Are they all piled up in a glorious stack, or on a shelf together, or scattered around?
@@GinaStanyerBooksunder the Christmas tree 😊
Love your cozy Christmas TBR, Gina! Dying to know what you think about The Country House Hotel! I'll be reading Miss Read's Christmas Tales this month (the same edition you have!) - yay! 😍🎄💚 You have to listen to the audio book of The Letters to Father Christmas while you look at the photos...it's the best combination! So many awesome Christmas book choices ☺🎅🏼❤
I wish it was cold and gray here. Looks like you've got lots of fun, cozy Christmas reading plans!
Thanks Kaitlin! It’s pretty cozy here right now.
The dark days are cozy but so not great for filming! Same problem here. I love "everything's a definite maybe." 🙂 I'm glad I'm not the only person who has favorite cookbooks and flags recipes and never cooks them. It's just so fun!
I love cookbooks so much. I have a lot of them!
A Country House Christmas is on my TBR and want to re-read Winter Solstice and Little Women. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead. 😊
Thanks Kami!
I adored Rosamunde Pilcher when I discovered her decades ago. I read everything she had written almost all back to back but I haven’t reread any of them. Perhaps I’ll pick up Winter Solstice.
Such a fun video - thank you. I was looking at the books behind and saw the name 'Pilcher'. The font looked familiar and I turned my chair around and looked on my bookshelf and found a copy of Winter Solstice! I was so excited. It wasn't on my TBR - was amongst some books picked up in the thrift shop but I've placed it right near the top now. Thank you
How funny. I hope you love it like I do!
I just love The Christmas Mouse in the Miss Read series. Lots of great cozy books. Happy December 🎄
It’s such a sweet story! I just love Miss Read. ❤️
we made it to the weekend! 🎉🎉🎉 It is definitely dark and gloomy outside! Love the books you picked to have sitting out. So cool
Your choices sound cozy. I have too many books I want to finish before the year is out, but I’m aware that December is a crazy busy time so I’m going to plan accordingly.
Yeah, there are sooooo many books I want to get to!
@@GinaStanyerBooks so many books so little time 😂
Hi Gina,
You have a lovely selection of books to read over the Christmas season.
I read No Holly for Miss Quinn a couple of weeks ago for the first time & really enjoyed it. I like the look of The Edwardian country Christmas. 😊xxxx
I love your picks! Im hoping to get to a few more holiday reads this season though I don't think I'll have time to read them all! Christmas by the Book which you mentioned, is on my list but I don't have a copy of it yet! The other books are The Twelve Dogs of Christmas by Susan Wiggs, A Christmas Carol, One Day in December by Josie Silver, Christmas in Painted Pony Creek by Linda Lael Miller, A Little Christmas Spirit and Road to Christmas (both by Sheila Roberts), and a couple of Christmas thrillers: The Visitor by Sergio Gomez, Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict, and The Christmas Holiday by Mikayla Davids.😊
You've got a great list! I am trying to collect some Christmas books, I had never really read them before last year and am really enjoying it!
@GinaStanyerBooks They're fun! I hadn't really gotten into them until maybe a few years ago myself. The trouble is keeping up with reading them! 😄 📚
I just bought Winter in Thrush Green as a good cozy December book, I feel like I was just reading Thrush Green sat in a sunny park and now it's freezing!
Right Aaron?! Where did the year go!
I just finished Winter in Thrush Green. It was such a sweet read.
Hope you get all the warm Christmas feels! Nigella's writing is a treat to read.
Hi Gina….book crush….I love that term. So many books that you highlighted are already my favorites. I read Winter Solstice in November for the first time. Oh my goodness,what an atmospheric book. 🎄
Thanks Glenda.
Ahhh i love your videos Gina! ❤️
Winter solstice was SO good. Last winter i read all the Miss Read Christmas stories/books. Also SO good. The Willows at Christmas by William Horwood was good too. This year i am going to be flipping through the Susan Branch Christmas editions and the Miss Read Christmas book. I might also read some Flora Thompson because ive never tried her before. I love Christmas time so much. Its all full of magic and excitement. But i struggle with the remainder of the long winter here in North Dakota. It was good to see your beautiful smile! ❤
I have the Willows at Christmas but I haven't read it yet! I keep forgetting about it. I need to move it to my Christmas shelf.
Happy December! I have just finished reading The Thorn Birds with a very old copy borrowed from my mum and im just about to start Winter Solstice which i read every winter. I love this cosy time of year. It is starting to get really cold here in the UK!
OMG I read that many many years ago and remember loving it! I picked up an old second hand paperback this summer with the intention of rereading it but never got around to it! Isn't Winter Solstice the best? I love it so much!
Such a marvellous bunch of books, it really will put anyone in a festive mood!!🎄. I would love to read No holly for Miss Quinn, Edwardian House Christmas and the Susan Branch!!❤. I am going to wish you a very Happy Christmas Gina!! 📚🛍️🎅.
Merry Christmas Punita!
I live in Washington state also so I know all about the gray drizzly weather. I love Susan Branch too.
Right? It drags me down. I'm from southern California originally and have still not adjusted (even though I've been here now since 1991! Longer than I was in California even!)
Your holiday reading plans sound lovely. I plan on reading Mary Stewart all winter interspersed with books from my piles of unread books. I just finished Madame Will You Speak? These books are the perfect antidote for a rainy cold Pacific Northwest winter. Part of Madame Will you Speak was set in Avignon, France, so a Rick Steve's video about Avignon was a perfect pairing. No Holly for Miss Quinn is my favorite Christmas book ever, although I love Winter Solstice too! Last year, I made Shepard's pie for dinner to go with the story. It was very cozy! Happy reading, Valerie
We both have excellent taste in books :)
That is one of my favorite Mary Stewarts! She is so atmospheric and has the perfect level of suspense and romance for me.
Lol! Yes we do!
Sounds cosy and I wish you some nice cold sunny days (not sure what your climate is like, but I love those). I found a Miss Read Christmas at Fairacre with multiple stories. I knew of Miss Read through you and I found a book of hers in an English bookshop. I liked it and am looking forward to the Christmassy ones 😊
I'm in the Seattle area, so usually we get a lot of gray drizzle until next summer. It's a little daunting to my California girl brain.
@@GinaStanyerBooks Ouch best of luck 🤞 I think I would miss winter in California. I'm from The Netherlands, we have quite clear distinctions between the seasons
I am ALSO presently reading Christmas By The Book!! I'm enjoying it! I loved The Book Club Hotel, finished that 2 wks. ago. I have many Christmas Collections out to peruse through. Poetry collections, story collections, anthologies, AND Winter Solstice, thanks to you on a different tube of yours. I'm REALLY looking forward to reading that.Also read Christmas At Fair acre (?) it was 2 stories in one. A few others,too. Actually bought a red, white and green bin to put all the Christmas Bks. in that I want to read. Oops! a!most forgot A Child's Christmas In Wales, read it every Christmas time. Thanks Gina!!!🤗🤗
Ooooo, I love the idea of a bin for Christmas books! That sounds so cute.
Hi there, Gina. Me too, probably mostly mood and whim reading, as usual. Im buying a lot of the Dean Street Press Furrowed Middlebrow books and am reading A Winter Away by E. Fair. So the book is wintery but i live in so. CA , altho we've had raindrops, mostly at night, as typical. 😅 im going to read Poirot's Christmas in Dec since i havent read yet. So im trying. I read A Fine Romance, need more S Branch! Such talented wonderful lady! Happy reading 😊. ( if not cooking 😄)
I love those Furrowed Middlebrow reprints so much! (I just wish that the logo on the spines match up - it bugs me a bit when they are on the shelf LOL)
Loved all your December books, Gina ☺ I read Winter Solstice for the first time a couple of years back at Christmas and it was the perfect read! I'll look forward to re reading it at some point 🙂I've just re read Little Women which always seems like the best wintry book!
I do love the Christmas scene in Little Women. It's very cozy!
I’m in a strange reading mood, more winter-y/cozy than Christmas, but I did check out a few Christmas to try, especially want to try Last Christmas in Paris. Have you read Branch’s Home for Christmas 🎅- it’s little and has Santa on front! It was SO sweet! About her childhood Christmas!
I love Branch’s home for Christmas. Flipping through it this year!
Hi Amy, I just put Last Christmas in Paris on hold at the library. I hope it comes in before the end of the month!
I haven't read Home for Christmas. I am on a hunt to collect all the Susan Branch books though. I love her a lot.
Enjoy your cozy reads! I didn't do much of any reading during November on account of NaNoWriMo, so I hope to start getting back into the swing this month.
Thanks Ursula! How'd your NaNoWriMo project go? Did you finish the goal? It sounds so daunting to me!
@@GinaStanyerBooksI got to 57K, consisting mostly of my handwritten project plus journal entries, blog posts, and a few other things. That's one of my lowest final wordcounts, but I still overachieved (past the 50K minimum), and I've been working hard on slowly regaining my usual writing habits and daily output since they were thrown into such disorder by lockdown and the cancelling of all in-person write-ins for two years. My highest ever wordcount was just shy of 131K, and the next-best was 101K. Eventually I hope to be back to that kind of NaNo.
I read "Winter Solstice" a while ago, based on your recommendation. I liked it a lot. Re-reading it would be a totally different experience, wouldn't it? Since you may remember much of what happens to who, and when. And yes, the last scene sticks with you. There's no getting away from that one! I'll consider picking it up again, on some snowy weekend. Thanks!
It’s such a cozy winter read. I just wish that we got a scene of everyone opening their present on Christmas Day!
Maybe your artistic self should create such a scene ...
@@GinaStanyerBooksYES. I just finished reading it and was actually so disappointed that there wasnt a present opening. I guess the book cant go on forever! I didnt want it to end.
@@CorinneHSmith Rosamunde Pilcher fan fiction!
Hi Gina, After I finish the Tales from Ivy Hill series today I''m going to start Starry Night by Debbie Macomber for Sarah's readathon. Then I'll move on to The Winter Lodge by Susan Wiggs, After that will be One Day in December by Josie Silver. And I'll end the month with The Christmas Joyride by Melody Carlson. I like romance in December. Glad you're enjoying Christmas by the Book. Will check if A CountryHouse Christmas is digital.
Sounds like a fun reading month for you Amy!
Winter Solstice is so lovely ❤
Happy December! I'm currently rereading some favorites on audio this month: Winter Solstice as well as A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett.
Oh fun! I actually have an audio version of Winter Solstice, but I've never listened to it. Maybe I should - I've heard really good things!
I just bought ‘a week in winter’ recently, is it any good?
@@cathycrandall5264: It’s one of my favorite books - with one of my favorite characters (Maudie Todhunter).
I’m going to read No Holly for Miss Quinn in December! I meant to last year, but I didn’t get to it. 💛🎄
Hi Kelly! It's such a cozy read and sweet read. I hope that you like it.
@@GinaStanyerBooks I am sure I will!
since you're a Miss Read expert, do you think I can read her Christmas's books even if I never read her books before? I know that there are specific series.....thank you!
Yes, you could definitely read No Holly For Miss Quinn, and the novellas. The only one I wouldn't read is Christmas at Thrush Green, since it's the very last in the series.
@@GinaStanyerBooks great! Thank you ❤❤