It has been a wonderful year!!! I have found myself grateful for the friendships that I have formed because of the awesome community that exists online and for my friends and family who have supported me this year. I would like to wish you all very happy holidays and a merry Christmas from my family [...]
My last book to review for the Christmas season is The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg. If you are looking for a lighthearted story about the courtship and love of Mary and Joseph than this is the book for you.
From the publisher:
We see Mary – young, strong, and inquisitive – as she first [...]
A Midnight Clear, Selected Family Christmas Stories by Newbery author Katherine Paterson writes a collection of short stories for young readers. The copy that I read has five selected Christmas stories, I believe that there are a total of twelve, so I’d like to track the other ones down. Katherine’s husband John is a pastor, [...]
I had really, really high expectations for Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris. I knew it was either a love or hate it type book, but people were leaning more towards the LOVE it scale. Plus, I’ve never read anything by Sedaris and he’s been on my radar for awhile because people can’t stop raving [...]
A Wish to be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe and illustrated by Michael Glenn Monroe is a touching story of the power of friendship to lift another’s spirits. Each year families would come to the Christmas tree farm to choose the perfect tree. One of those trees has no other wish but to be [...]
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