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"Picture a man sitting beside a dead tree. He is indoors and wearing a crown. From the ceiling hangs a parasitical shrub that legitimates sexual assault. He is singing to himself about a tenth-century Mittel-European murder victim using a sixteenth-century Finnish melody. Earlier, he told his children that the house had been broken into by an obese Turkish man. This was a lie, but he wanted to make his children happy."

#ChristmasCrimeChallenge #prompt3 #star #famousdetective
While dining at some friends,Miss Marple is asked to recite a murder mystery involving Christmas.What transpires is a tale of a time she knew just from a man‘s behavior that he was going to kill his wife.With her astute detecting, she managed to uncrack his alibi that was considered by the police as uncrackable.

Good news @julieclair I finished #ThematicCozies Challenge!

Bad News the Murder on Location series I've been reading off and on Christmas story really annoyed me. I hate when authors do this. Spoilery Rant hidden in Comments. #Pemberlittens

“Oh, I was so nervous, Diana…Then I thought of my lovely puffed sleeves and took courage. I knew that I must live up to those sleeves, Diana.”

I love Matthew more every time I read this!

Today‘s #KindredSpiritsChristmas story is “Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves,” from the tagged collection. You can also find it online in this collection: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20150145 (or it‘s chapter 25 in Anne of Green Gables). ⤵️

It‘s the holiday season and when I saw this pop up on my Kindle app, I decided to get it. I always love a good Freida book. It was definitely an interesting short read.

If you need me…..don‘t…… 🎄

What Christmas reads are on your tbr?

https://wildwoodreads.com/2025/12/10/christmas-reads-on-my-tbr/

A little watermelon,cheese,wine while reflecting on my zany day. Emmy has joined me.

Today‘s reading is a poem ofJane Kenyon‘s
Mosaic of the Nativity: Serbia, Winter, 1993. Her words juxtapose the birth of Christ and the Bosnian War.

https://poets.org/poem/mosaic-nativity-serbia-winter-1993

I read this every Christmas. It‘s heavy on sarcasm and dark humor which I appreciate especially this time of year!

#wdncw Holiday edition. When in doubt add a dinosaur because let‘s be honest gingerbread houses never stay up. About 2 weeks till Christmas & I‘m no where near ready. Luckily we had already planned to do less this Christmas.

“Though we now light our world with bulbs and take for granted not only the external day but often even our food, we still make of the return of the sun's light a joyful metaphor for social and personal renewal.”