It’s another month, and another chance to join in with the Literary Junkies; my favorite online book club! This month, it’s all about favorite Christmas books and childhood favorites. Ah nostalgia.
You’ll also find the books that are on my Christmas list!
Let’s Book Chat!
1. What are you reading right now? Tell us about it.
I’m going to be honest and say that I’m not really reading anything right now. I finished Me Before You
2. Now that we’re coming up to the holidays, are there any books you like to return to or remind you of childhood?
Little Women has always been one of my favorite Christmas books. The first few chapters are about Christmas, and it is always stuck in my mind as Christmas story. I also loved reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
3. Do you have any new books on your wishlist?
I have purchased most of the books that I really wanted to read this year, but there is always room for a few more on my shelf!
- Right now, I am in love with all of the lovely hardback editions of classic books.
- This edition of the Anne of Green Gables
series is definitely on my wishlist right now.7
- These Jane Austens
are absolutely amazing and I’ve been collecting Puffin Classics
for a while now. I already have Anne of Green Gables
(it is impossible to have too many version of Anne) and Black Beauty
.
4. Favorite book you’ve ever received as a gift?
I think people are scared to purchase books for me right now. It’s been a while since anyone has. I think my favorite book gift was actually not for me, but for my brothers. When I was about 12, my uncle bought my brothers some of the The Thrawn Trilogy books
5. Favorite book centered around the holidays?
I don’t think I really have one favorite Christmas book in particular. But these are my favorite Christmas books.
is that it is a ghost story. In the song, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” the lyrics talk about how ghost stories are a part of Christmas, but we don’t do that much anymore- at least not in America. A Christmas Carol is probably the only true ghost story that anyone ever tells over Christmas. If you haven’t seen 
, you need to add that to your movie list this year.
The Gift of the Magi
is one of my favorite love stories of all time. The young couple is in-love and want to give their spouse a nice Christmas gift, but they have no money. So, they sacrifice the most important thing to them to benefit the person they love.
is sort of a ghost story. The little girl does die in the end. I don’t know why, but I loved this story even as a small child. I felt bad for the girl, but I liked the story. I was a pretty strange child.
a rare store goes missing around Christmas. The man who lost the jewel winds up finding it in the mouth of his Christmas goose, and Sherlock and Watson set off on an adventure to determine how it happened.
, because it is full of beautiful pictures.
is one of the only Dr. Seuss stories that I actually like. I know everyone thinks he was so amazing and the art is awesome, but I’m not a huge fan of the art or books that rhyme. The Grinch, however, makes a perfect character for such a weird art style and the rhyming seems better in a Christmas story. Plus, Cindy Lou Who is cute.
Skipping Christmas
was made into a movie in 2004 (
). I don’t know why they changed the name. I like this book because it deals with a lot of the stress of the holiday season in a fun way as the couple tries to escape the mayhem in their traditional suburban neighborhood.
is about Christmas, with a first line that goes, “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” it is forever a Christmas story in my mind. Something about the old fashioned skirts, the letters, and giving their Christmas dinner to a less-fortunate family is what I remember most from this book.
offers three Christmas stories written by YA masters John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle. The stories are all romance-themed, which is a must during Christmas!
follows the adventures of three angels as they visit the City of Angels to grant three Christmas prayers- ideally without the help of divine intervention. But it isn’t long before the three angels might need divine intervention themselves.
In this story, when one side of a cookie recipe rivalry is found murdered, a whole town is left wondering? Did the rival murder her for the cookie recipe?
from this year, if you can, because it is the prettiest.
Anne of Green Gables
takes place at Christmas, but it was such a turning point for her it seems like it is most of the book. On this Christmas, Anne’s guardians finally decide to allow her to live a little, and naturally, magic happens.
I have read this, and it is sad and heartbreaking. A husband dies and sends a series of letters to his wife after his death.
: This story is sweet and sad. A boy falls in love with a minister’s daughter, then realizes that she is actually going to die soon.
: This story is messed up from start to finish. It’s semi-historical set in 1700s Scotland, and is loosely based on the story of Rachel and Leah from the Bible.
: I found this story agonizing as a teenager. So much Civil War angst!
: This is similar to Little Women. Only, so much French Revolution angst! 🙂
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, 
: Story set in the past where characters must choose between duty and love.
: A highschool love triangle. What could be more angsty than that?
: A teen father struggles to hang on to his son.
: With her parents suddenly killed, what’s a girl to do?
: A story about a girl who was only conceived to help keep her sick sister alive.
: Opposites attract, but usually cause problmes, especially when one of them gets sick.
by William Goldman
by Brian Jacques
by Arthur Conon Doyle
by Jules Verne
by Orson Scott Card
by Douglas Adams
by Mary Stewart
by T.H. White
series) by Terry Pratchet
by Rudyard Kipling
, by Mark Twain
by Mark Twain
