I wanted to wish all of you out there a very Merry Christmas. Whether you’re spending it quietly or in the midst of a noisy throng I hope the day brings you all you would wish. I will be spending Christmas with family – we’re a small family now – so it’s easy for us to get together in one place.
You may have noticed that I have been indulging in a little bit of Christmas reading – this has become something of a habit with me the last few years. This year I have already read: – The Santa Klaus Murder, The Snow Garden and other Stories and my marvellous online buy The Visiting Moon. I am currently reading one of the Penguin Christmas Classics series – (I fear I may buy them all next year if they are still available) Christmas at Thompson Hall & other Christmas stories by Anthony Trollope. I have to say I have enjoyed it immensely – time to dust off some of my other Trollopes perhaps?
In previous years I have enjoyed Christmas reads by Nancy Mitford, G B Stern, Agatha Christie, Somerset Maugham, Stella Gibbons and of course Charles Dickens. I remember writing about my favourite Christmassy books a couple of years ago – well I could add two more to that list. A Christmas Pudding – read last year and The Visiting Moon which I reviewed yesterday.
I can remember last Boxing Day sitting in my Mum’s conservatory with a large glass of wine (while everyone else watched something on TV I didn’t like) reading Nancy Mitford’s A Christmas Pudding – light, bright, funny and perfect for my mood that day. My experience of reading The Visiting Moon this year – reminded me of another little known book that I read about four years ago. Ten Days of Christmas by G B Stern– I would so love it if someone re-issued it – just such a lovely old fashioned Christmassy novel. I think I might re-read it next Christmas.
So with things still to organise I had better stop waffling. Remember I will want to hear about all your Christmas book shaped parcels that Santa flings down your chimneys – I am only expecting a few this year – which is probably just as well. However I have promised myself a little post-Christmas Persephone splurge – as a little gift to myself – after which there will be no more book buying for a while (ha! As if anyone will believe that!).
Merry Christmas!
Have a wonderful Christmas with your family, Ali, and look forward to reading you in the new year! 🙂
Thanks Karen hope yours is lovely too.
Merry Christmas, hope you have a wonderful book-filled time!
Thank you 😊
Merry Christmas! 🙂
Thank you 😊
What a splendid assortment of Christmassy books. I’m on the lookout for The Visiting Moon, and now I have to add Ten Days of Christmas to my list. But that’s for the future — I’m not going to buy any more books for a month at least. Really. Unless I can’t help myself. Merry Christmas!
Ooh good luck with your quest 😊
Merry Christmas, Ali. I wish you a wonderful time.
Thank you Caroline.
Merry Christmas, Ali. Those Penguin Christmas Classics are lovely, aren’t they – very tempting. Enjoy the holidays. 🙂
Thank you. Yes I have had to stop myself going out and buying all those penguin Christmas classics – maybe next year.
Happy Christmas and lots of good reading in 2016.
Oh yes I hope so too, thank you Bridget.
Merry Christmas. I too am reading Rachel Joyce’s A Snow Garden.
Hope you’re enjoying it.
I wish you a merry Christmas, and more lovely books to read of course.
Thank you Jane, always love getting new (or new, old) books.
Merry Christmas, Ali! Have a great time! 🙂
Thank you 😊
Happy Christmas – I’ll believe the ‘no book buying’ when I see it, as it were!
Ha ha! Yes absolutely 😊
Happy Christmas! 🙂
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this very Christmassy list. I have a few I’d now like to add to my list 🙂 Have a wonderful holiday!
Great. Always glad to inspire 😊
A merry Christmas to you and yours too from summery down under!
Thank you, it’s very unseasonal here more like an early spring some days.
Seasonal Greetings and happy reading to all.
Thank you.
Merry Christmas
🎅😊😊 thank you
The Bears are always in favour of books with titles like ‘Christmas Puddung’. At the moment their stomach look as if they each have a whole Christmas Pud inside! Even so, they want to know if there is a book you can recommend called ‘Marmalade Sandwiches’? Happy Christmas from us all.
Hope the bears had all they would wish for. 😊
Far too many marmalade sandwiches I am afraid to say. They are looking a little green around the gills 😢
Nadolig Llawen to you Ali from over here in Wales. That conservatory session sounds blissful so hope you get to repeat it this year. We have a small but very noisy family gathering so not much chance of finding a quiet corner. The minute I so much as pick up a book someone is guaranteed to interrupt with a question invariably involving something to eat.
Yes I tend to only have short reading sessions when I’m with the family, but I can usually sneek off for an hour at some point.
Happy Christmas and glad you’ve got some reading time in – so have I, and it’s been marvellous (but I’ll have to do some hard reviewing now to get them all noted!). I have twelve more books than I had before Christmas Day (plus four BookCrossing Secret Santa ones), pictured here https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/christmas-acquisitions/
You did very well indeed. 😀