I love how Christmas falls this year too, so fitting when Christmas day is on a Sunday. I have the week off between Christmas and New Years and I'm so excited to use that time to read lol!
I recommend 12 days at Bleakly Manor by Michelle Griep. It's a novella that's Agatha Christie meets A Christmas Carol. I'm going to re read it this year! I'm also going to read The White Christmas Inn. I've been influenced by Oceana and now you. But in the best way. 😊
I loved Catching Christmas by Terry Blackstock. A Christmas Carol by Dickens is a classic everyone should read. I now try to find all the Christmas Carol, retellings I can. I'm planning on reading the white Christmas in this year as well.
Yay, for your first Christmas vlog 👏👏!!! All of those books look so cute! And yes, I love the White Christmas Inn, and I hope you do too!! Also, you have quite the Melody Carlson collection 🤣🤣🎄🎄👏👏!! PS, your new Christmas intro is awesome 👏😁!!
Ah you should totally do a vlog for “The Bridge”! Read the book, watch the movie, and go to the Landmark Booksellers bookstore (which inspired the book)!!
I loved The Mistletoe Countess!!! Have it on audio and will definitely be listening to it again before Christmas. Pepper Basham's storytelling is amazing.
Terri Blackstock is one of my new favorite authors! Listening to Catching Christmas now. You recommended her to me and I thank you very much! Hercule Poirot is also my favorite fictional detective! I’ll need to get that on audiobook! Love your videos and suggestions!
I'm interested in reading "Her Christmas Redemption" by Toni Shiloh, "The Mistletoe Countess" by Pepper Basham, and Melody Carlson's "The Christmas Swap" as well as "A Royal Christmas".
I’m currently reading that edition of A Christmas Carol. I’m enjoying it but I do find dickens writing a little harder to follow. Also reading Catching Christmas and I love it.
I love Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol is so good. I also love the Nutcracker 😊❤. I stopped watching the Hallmark channel but I have been watching the baking competions on the Food Network. I have some Christmas novels, I have them sitting around the house (that's my decorating 😂). I love your video girl 😊❤
I don't do much decorating but I would like to get some Victorian theme (Jane Austen,Louisa May Alcott,etc), decoration. I don't do Christmas trees, Santa, etc but I don't mind bells, lights, candles, garland, ornaments,etc. Especially a Nutcracker 😊
I just got "Christmas in the Scottish Highlands." (Donna Ashcroft) I admit it, it was because of the cover. I've just started, but would be surprised if the whole book isn't clean. Made the mistake of looking at other titles by her online. Two more in the Scottish Highlands series, but all the covers of all her books !!!! Think I'm buying a lottery ticket this afternoon. Love the Christmas sweatshirt. God bless! ❤️
I have read several of the books on your TBR and have a couple on my own list that I want to read. If I am being honest, none of them are great books...but yet I have loved several anyway, if that makes sense. I am not looking for great literature, necessarily, during the Christmas season. I am looking for happy and cozy and easy. Many of these fit the bill and I have no regrets and will happily re-read several. Not great, but yet really great.🎄❤
This isn’t about Christmas lol but I recommended Lori Wick to you on a previous video and thought that maybe I should follow that up with a specific recommendation (they aren’t all equal 😬) I would suggest starting with Pretense or maybe Every Storm those are stand alone books. Maybe during the long part of winter? I love reading and hearing other people talk about books, especially ones I’ve read!!
I love Christmas books!! I read "the Christmas dog" and" the Christmas cat" and loved 'em !! Melody Carlson is da BOMB! I also read "a christmas carol" for the first time last Christmas (2022) without ever having read Dickens' work- it was pretty good! I love adding Christmas books to my TBR (IT'S A PROBLEM, hahaha)!!! An amazing Christmas book I recommend: "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" by L. Frank Baum- SO GOOD! I loved watching this video! Merry Christmas (in july)!! ☺️🎄🎁🎅🏻
I have Holiday Swap, The Christmas Quilt, Christmas Camp, Christmas in the Alps, and Christmas Shopaholic to read this year. Starting the Christmas reading today!! 🎉🎄 I'm done now. 😂😂
Oh em gee and Hercule Poirot's Christmas is AMAZING!!! I also read it last year!! I heard of "the mistletoe countess" but never got to read it! Was it good? Pepper Basham is great though, I have read her stuff! I notice a lot of Christian authors in your tbr list- are you a christian? Im a christian myself! ☺️
I still need to read that one! Yesss loved The Mistletoe Countess! You can really read it anytime in winter in my opinion because it’s not overtly Christmas-y so that’s always nice too. Yes, I am a Christian and talk primarily about Christian Fiction here on my channel!❤️❤️ Welcome!
Mistletoe Countess was okay. I loved the characters and want to try more of her books. White Christmas Inn--yes, the lodge vibes. It was okay, but also so cozy and sweet and it was in an inn!😍 Catching Christmas was so good. I want to read it again this year while everyone else is. The Bridge was okay, but it was set in a bookstore so that bumps it up for me. I believe there are actually two movies to tell the full story...let me check on that (because I own it/them). I have been sneakinh Melody Carlson books in for the last month, because I couldn't wait! 😂 The are like th e cheesiest of Hallmark movies. Evereyone falls in love in a week in a small town. And I love it right now!
GIRL LOVE ALL THE COMMENTS HERE YESSS. The book store the bridge is based on is close to where I live so one of my friends said I should read the book, watch the movie and visit the book store in a vlog! I bet that would be so much fun! Yesss give me all the cheese at christmas time!🎄🎄
Thanks Brenda! I was on her team for Authentically, Izzy and will be for The Curio Curse! I have it on my NetGalley already so I am sooooo excited!! Thanks for mentioning friend!
Yassss Christmas Shopaholic 🙌🙌🙌🙌
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩FIRED UP
MISTLETOE COUNTESS 🤩🤩🤩 CAN'T WAIT
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Agatha Christie and Pepper Basham! Yass I plan on reading The Mistletoe Countess in December too!
WE LOVE TO SEE IT
I have The White Christmas Inn and The Mistletoe Countess on my TBR this month
I loved Baby It's Cold Outside 🥰
YAY!🎄🎄♥♥ 🎄🎄♥♥
I need to watch the Bridge movie!
Yesss!
“Christmas is my favourite month” 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣I noticed that when I edited but was like🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🙈🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
@@BookLoverAmanda love it!!
💀💀Southern mind. MEEEE 🤣🤣👏🏾
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Hey girl hey!!! Love your sweatshirt 🥰🥰
THANKS GIRL
Lord John Gray 💀💀💀MARK ME Amanda 💀💀💀👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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I agree about The Holiday Swap. It's what triggered my love for Christmas books last year too! That and The Santa Suit!
LOVE THAT! OH I did see The Santa Suit recently too and thought about getting it some time if I can get many of these read hehe🎄🎄♥♥ 🎄🎄♥♥
The nice thing about a lot of Christmas books is that they are shorter so you can read moreeee😋
EXACTLY!! 😂😂
YASSS🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Yes I read Baby It’s Cold Outside! But in a Christmas novella bind up. I don’t recognize that cover you have 😆 it’s good!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣my brain!!
Ooh a Christmas Carol! I haven’t read that. I might have to read it now ✅💯💜💜🥰
IMA TRY!! :)
SO EXCITED FOR THIS VIDEO
YASSS I was so excited for yours too!
Christmas Cheese🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰
LOL YES🤣🤣
A Christmas in the Alps love the cover 💜
SO cute
A Christmas Carol is my favorite Christmas book. I read it every year. I hope you like it!
Yay!! I can’t wait!
Finding Father Christmas is a Hallmark movie. Read a Christmas Joyride last year and really enjoyed it.
Love that!!! Need to get to it!🎄🎄♥♥
Love all those Christmas books girl!!! Imma try to get as many Christmas reads in too!! 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏🎄🎄🎄
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Your shelves looks gorgeous especially with all the Christmas decor.
THANKS GIRL!!!
Your sweater!♥ Your reading the authors' names from the Christmas anthology, haha! Great Christmas picks, enjoy!
Thanks Priscilla! 🎄🎄♥♥ Yess LOL I was struggling HAHA
I love how Christmas falls this year too, so fitting when Christmas day is on a Sunday. I have the week off between Christmas and New Years and I'm so excited to use that time to read lol!
Yesss get it sis!
I recommend 12 days at Bleakly Manor by Michelle Griep. It's a novella that's Agatha Christie meets A Christmas Carol. I'm going to re read it this year!
I'm also going to read The White Christmas Inn. I've been influenced by Oceana and now you. But in the best way. 😊
Thanks sis!! I have heard that is a good one too!!! Hope you have a good reading month!
The thumb nail was worth it! 😂 I saw all the books and got excited. 😁🎄
Thank you so much HAHA YASSS🎄🎄🎄
Fun Bookmas vlog! I really enjoyed A Quilt for Christmas and I am adding Baby, It's Cold Outside to my TBR.
Yay!!! Thanks friend!!
I loved Catching Christmas by Terry Blackstock. A Christmas Carol by Dickens is a classic everyone should read. I now try to find all the Christmas Carol, retellings I can. I'm planning on reading the white Christmas in this year as well.
AMAZING! I can't wait to read it finally!🎄🎄♥♥
Love the book stacks 🔥🔥
YASSS
Yay, for your first Christmas vlog 👏👏!!! All of those books look so cute! And yes, I love the White Christmas Inn, and I hope you do too!!
Also, you have quite the Melody Carlson collection 🤣🤣🎄🎄👏👏!!
PS, your new Christmas intro is awesome 👏😁!!
Amy! Thank you sister!! YESS I need to read all of Melody's books to see which I love! I can't wait to read The White Christmas Inn!🎄
Ah you should totally do a vlog for “The Bridge”! Read the book, watch the movie, and go to the Landmark Booksellers bookstore (which inspired the book)!!
OK GIRL I GOTTA GO TO THIS BOOKSTORE AHHHH I JUST LOOKED IT UP YASSSS
There’s so many books and authors you talk about I haven’t ever heard of! I always love your videos 💛
Thank you sister!!!🎄🎄♥♥
I LOVE your sweater!!
Thanks sister!!
I loved The Mistletoe Countess!!! Have it on audio and will definitely be listening to it again before Christmas. Pepper Basham's storytelling is amazing.
YAS I can't wait!!!🎄🎄♥♥ 🎄🎄♥♥ She really has the best storytelling yess!
I find Melody Carlson’s books hit and miss for me so I don’t prioritize them as much! I should try the Quilt one though!
Yea girl I never know which I will like!
I read The Christmas Joy Ride yesterday. I really liked it. Really inspiring for Christmas giving.
YAY! I may have to def. pick it up! SO many have said to on this video in the comments! Thanks Lorna!!🎄🎄♥♥ 🎄🎄♥♥
Christmas Camp was so cute! I just read it a few weeks ago and loved it!
Oh nice!!! Love that!!🎄🎄🎄
Terri Blackstock is one of my new favorite authors! Listening to Catching Christmas now. You recommended her to me and I thank you very much! Hercule Poirot is also my favorite fictional detective! I’ll need to get that on audiobook! Love your videos and suggestions!
THANKS SISTER!! Can't wait to chat about Catching Chrismtas after I finish!! Yass Poirot!!!!
Awesome...love VLOGMAS..1❤💚❤💚 Christmas 🎄 ♥️
Thank you sis!🎄 ♥️🎄 ♥️
I just picked up Christmas Joyride, looks really cute!
YAY! It doessss. I love the cover!!
Christmas Shopoholic is on my tbr too! You have so many Christmas books!!! I only own a couple.
Yessss! I hope you like it. Yes girl I'm ready to read through them and unhaul the ones I don't plan to keep :)
Those all sound good! I’m going to read A Christmas Carol too! I’ve never read it.
YAY LOVE THAT!
I can’t wait to hear all your thoughts on alllll the Christmas stories!! 😍😍
YESSS 🎄🎄♥♥ 🎄🎄♥♥
As far as what to read first-- THE MISTLETOE COUNTESS!!In case you can't tell, I am a huge Pepper Basham fan!!!
YASSS I will get to it soon!🎄🎄♥♥
You can read Finding Father Christmas! I love Robin Jones Gunn! I haven’t read that one by her but I’ve seen the movie and it’s so cute.
YAYY I didnt realize its a movie!!!🎄🎄♥♥
Your edits for trying figure out the name 💀💀💀 GOLDDDDD!!!
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I'm interested in reading "Her Christmas Redemption" by Toni Shiloh, "The Mistletoe Countess" by Pepper Basham, and Melody Carlson's "The Christmas Swap" as well as "A Royal Christmas".
Also, your Christmas sweaters make me want to go on a shopping spree 👀👀👀🤣🤣🤣
😁😁😁
Hello! I just finished Pepper Basham's Mistletoe Countess and loved it! 😍
Thanks friend! I can't wait to get to it!!!🎄🎄
I’m currently reading that edition of A Christmas Carol. I’m enjoying it but I do find dickens writing a little harder to follow.
Also reading Catching Christmas and I love it.
Oooo good to know sis!!!
I love Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol is so good. I also love the Nutcracker 😊❤. I stopped watching the Hallmark channel but I have been watching the baking competions on the Food Network. I have some Christmas novels, I have them sitting around the house (that's my decorating 😂). I love your video girl 😊❤
I don't do much decorating but I would like to get some Victorian theme (Jane Austen,Louisa May Alcott,etc), decoration. I don't do Christmas trees, Santa, etc but I don't mind bells, lights, candles, garland, ornaments,etc. Especially a Nutcracker 😊
Thanks Tracie! Love all of that! So much fun!!
I loved The Holiday Swap 🥰🥰
It was ADORABLE!🎄🎄♥♥
I just got "Christmas in the Scottish Highlands." (Donna Ashcroft) I admit it, it was because of the cover. I've just started, but would be surprised if the whole book isn't clean. Made the mistake of looking at other titles by her online. Two more in the Scottish Highlands series, but all the covers of all her books !!!! Think I'm buying a lottery ticket this afternoon. Love the Christmas sweatshirt.
God bless! ❤️
Ooooo I have that one on my wish list! Let me know if you like it! Thanks so much sister!!🎄🎄♥♥ 🎄🎄♥♥ 🎄🎄♥♥
So excited for vlogmas!!!!!!🤩
YASS🎄🎄♥♥ 🎄🎄♥♥ 🎄🎄♥♥
I have read several of the books on your TBR and have a couple on my own list that I want to read. If I am being honest, none of them are great books...but yet I have loved several anyway, if that makes sense. I am not looking for great literature, necessarily, during the Christmas season. I am looking for happy and cozy and easy. Many of these fit the bill and I have no regrets and will happily re-read several. Not great, but yet really great.🎄❤
Hey girl! YES that is EXACTLY what I want for December christmas reads! Cozy and happy reads!!🎄🎄🎄AMEN
This isn’t about Christmas lol but I recommended Lori Wick to you on a previous video and thought that maybe I should follow that up with a specific recommendation (they aren’t all equal 😬) I would suggest starting with Pretense or maybe Every Storm those are stand alone books. Maybe during the long part of winter? I love reading and hearing other people talk about books, especially ones I’ve read!!
Oooo thanks Andrea!!
I love Christmas books!! I read "the Christmas dog" and" the Christmas cat" and loved 'em !! Melody Carlson is da BOMB! I also read "a christmas carol" for the first time last Christmas (2022) without ever having read Dickens' work- it was pretty good! I love adding Christmas books to my TBR (IT'S A PROBLEM, hahaha)!!!
An amazing Christmas book I recommend: "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" by L. Frank Baum- SO GOOD!
I loved watching this video! Merry Christmas (in july)!! ☺️🎄🎁🎅🏻
I am definitely going to read more Melody Carlson this Christmas! Thanks for the Recommendation! 🎄🎄
Cozying up for this one 🥰🥰🥰
🎄🎄♥♥ 🎄🎄♥♥ Thank you sister! Can't wait to watch your new video!! I saw HOLIDAY MYSTERIES -- girl I AM HERE!🎄🎄♥♥
I have Holiday Swap, The Christmas Quilt, Christmas Camp, Christmas in the Alps, and Christmas Shopaholic to read this year. Starting the Christmas reading today!! 🎉🎄 I'm done now. 😂😂
GET IT SIS!!!!!🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
I want to read A Christmas Carol this year too!
YESSS
And what a great thumbnail it is! 🤣💗
HA THANKS PENNY!
I just finished “A Christmas Carol!” And yes, it is perfect for this time of year! 🎄
YAYYY I can't wait!🎄🎄♥♥
Oh em gee and Hercule Poirot's Christmas is AMAZING!!! I also read it last year!!
I heard of "the mistletoe countess" but never got to read it! Was it good? Pepper Basham is great though, I have read her stuff! I notice a lot of Christian authors in your tbr list- are you a christian? Im a christian myself! ☺️
I still need to read that one! Yesss loved The Mistletoe Countess! You can really read it anytime in winter in my opinion because it’s not overtly Christmas-y so that’s always nice too. Yes, I am a Christian and talk primarily about Christian Fiction here on my channel!❤️❤️ Welcome!
Mistletoe Countess was okay. I loved the characters and want to try more of her books. White Christmas Inn--yes, the lodge vibes. It was okay, but also so cozy and sweet and it was in an inn!😍 Catching Christmas was so good. I want to read it again this year while everyone else is. The Bridge was okay, but it was set in a bookstore so that bumps it up for me. I believe there are actually two movies to tell the full story...let me check on that (because I own it/them). I have been sneakinh Melody Carlson books in for the last month, because I couldn't wait! 😂 The are like th e cheesiest of Hallmark movies. Evereyone falls in love in a week in a small town. And I love it right now!
GIRL LOVE ALL THE COMMENTS HERE YESSS. The book store the bridge is based on is close to where I live so one of my friends said I should read the book, watch the movie and visit the book store in a vlog! I bet that would be so much fun! Yesss give me all the cheese at christmas time!🎄🎄
@@BookLoverAmanda Thta would be sooo fun!!
Love it sis!! 💜💜💜
Thanks girl!!
Everybody needs a little cheese at Christmas!
👏👏👏🎄🎄🎄🎄 🧀 YESSS
Lord John Grey 🤣🤣🤣
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Hey Amanda, re The Mistletoe Countess, you should conyact Pepper and offer to be on the influencer team for The Curio Curse. Her teams are such fun!!
Thanks Brenda! I was on her team for Authentically, Izzy and will be for The Curio Curse! I have it on my NetGalley already so I am sooooo excited!! Thanks for mentioning friend!
❤️your channel.
Thank you friend!🎄🎄♥♥
The recipe in the back 💀💀💀
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