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JessClark78
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Day 20 Totals #WinterGames2024

Read The Thirteenth Child for an hour.

#ReadAway2024 #ChristmasAtoZ #WinterCosy
#Adventathon #WinterSolsticeReadathon
#SnickerdoodleSpirit +10 each

Watched:
🎥 Anna and the Apocalypse +5

+70 points #ChristmasChapterChasers

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JessClark78
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Day 19 Readathon Totals #WinterGames2024

Read for five hours. Still working on Winter‘s Tale and The Thirteenth Child.

#ReadAway2024 #ChristmasAtoZ #WinterCosy
#Adventathon #MidWeekMuddle +50 each

+255 points #ChristmasChapterChasers

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JessClark78
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Day 18 Totals #WinterGames2024

Read for three hours yesterday. Read a little more of Winter‘s Tale and a chunk of The Thirteenth Child.

#ReadAway2024 #ChristmasAtoZ #WinterCosy
#Adventathon #MidWeekMuddle +30 each

Watched:
🎥 A Bad Moms Christmas +5

+160 points #ChristmasChapterChasers

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TheAromaofBooks
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I've been using a random number generator to decide which of my holiday books I'll read next, and weirdly ended up reading Wrapped up FOR Christmas and Wrapped Up IN Christmas back to back 😂

Soft pick for this one; it's just a little too cutesy for me. Bodie was seriously injured on his last tour of duty and almost died. While recovering, he received a handmade quilt from the Quilts of Valor program, and that along with the letter that came ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) with it helped pull him out of the depression he was experiencing. So when he gets out of hospital he heads to Kentucky to find the presumably sweet grandmotherly lady who made the quilt so he can thank her in person. Except it turns out that she's actually quite young and needs a handyman to help her finish renovating the house she's turning into a B&B. This is basically just happy Christmas girl wins over grumpy Scrooge man, but it ⬇ 2d
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) mostly worked. The only weird part was that all of the girl's best friends were these elderly ladies from church, like apparently she doesn't know anyone under the age of like 65, which felt a little strange lol This was a perfectly nice one-off read, but I don't feel inspired to finish the series.

#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks
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TheSpineView Awesome! 2d
BookmarkTavern Honestly, I get that a little. I‘m in a book club of 14 people, and I‘m the youngest by at least 20 years. 🤣🤣🤣 2d
julieclair 💚🎄💚 2d
Andrew65 What a strange coincidence. Well done 🎄🎄🎄 2d
TheAromaofBooks @BookmarkTavern - It's true, and my best friend is 20 years older than me, and there is a lot of joy and sharing to be found in those cross-generational friendships. It was more that there didn't seem to be ANY other romantic options for her in this small town, so it kind of felt like she just jumped on the first guy under the age of 67 who showed up 😂 1d
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TheAromaofBooks
Wrapped Up for Christmas | Katlyn Duncan
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Mehso-so

When I'm reading nonstop holiday fluff in December, I really lower my standards when it comes to plot points like instalove, but this one was a stretch even for my relaxed attitude. Angie is coming off of a really bad relationship and even says things like, “I've never been single more than a month and should probably take some time to find out who I am as a person“ and then immediately falls in love with a random dude and after knowing each ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) each other for literally two weeks, they both act like not being together would be the most emotionally devastating event of their lives. 🙄 It was okay, but honestly it just felt like both these people needed to learn how to be single before getting into a relationship. Which to be fair is how I feel about a lot of irl couples haha

#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks
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BookmarkTavern I started reading your review, and my immediate thought was “I know that girl in real life.” 😅😅 2d
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JessClark78
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Day 17 Readathon Totals #WinterGames2024

Read for four and a half hours yesterday. Read some more of Winter‘s Tale and The Thirteenth Child.

#ReadAway2024 #ChristmasAtoZ #WinterCosy
#Adventathon #MidWeekMuddle +45 each

+230 points #ChristmasChapterChasers

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JessClark78
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Day 16 Totals #WinterGames2024

Read for three hours yesterday. Read a chapter or two of Winter‘s Tale and some more of The Thirteenth Child.

#ReadAway2024 #ChristmasAtoZ #WinterCosy
#Adventathon #MidDecemberReadathon
#OatmealEscape +30 each

Watched:
🎥 Krampus +5

+190 points #ChristmasChapterChasers

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JessClark78
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Pickpick

‘Coming-of-age can happen at the strangest times. Into his sixties and newly retired, Anders decides he‘s had enough of steady habits..‘

The basis for one of my favorite Netflix movies. A little sad, often humorous, this was a pretty good story.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#ReadAway2024 #ChristmasAtoZ #LetterL
#WinterCosy #Adventathon #WinterGames2024
Holiday/Wintery Read +75
#WGWordSearch (121) +1,210

+1,290 points #ChristmasChapterChasers

Andrew65 Excellent 🎄🎄🎄 5d
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 5d
BookmarkTavern Sounds great! 5d
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JessClark78
Zel | Donna Jo Napoli
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Pickpick

‘An innocent young girl... a noble youth obsessed with her beauty... and a mother who will do anything to keep them apart...‘

This was an excellent version of Rapunzel. Highly recommend to fairytale lovers.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#ReadAway2024 #ChristmasAtoZ #LetterZ
#WinterCosy #FairytaleReadingChallenge #Rapunzel
#Adventathon #WinterGames2024 TBR Read +50
#WGWordSearch (22) +220

+275 points #ChristmasChapterChasers

Andrew65 Well done ☃️☃️☃️ 5d
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 5d
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JessClark78
Jamaica Inn | Daphne Du Maurier
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Pickpick

‘The coachman tried to warn young Mary Yellan away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast..‘

A nice gothic tale, this was dark and atmospheric. I enjoyed it. Good writing and details.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#ReadAway2024 #ChristmasAtoZ #LetterJ
#Adventathon #WinterCosy #HitchToScreen
#WinterGames2024 Holiday/Wintery Read +75

I skipped the word search on this one since I started in November.

+80 points #ChristmasChapterChasers

JenlovesJT47 💚💚💚 5d
Andrew65 Brilliant 🎅🏼🎅🏼🎅🏼 I enjoyed this one. 5d
TheBookHippie I prefer this over Rebecca 👀 5d
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DieAReader Excellent! 5d
BookmarkTavern Looks spooky! 5d
OutsmartYourShelf @JessClark78 I love this one! Have you ever seen the adaptation with Jane Seymour & Trevor Eve? 4d
JessClark78 @OutsmartYourShelf No, I haven‘t seen it. Is it good? 1d
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