The fifth book of Christmas is All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey With Jane by Amy Elizabeth Smith. Amy Smith, a lover of literature – particularly Jane Austen, set off on a yearlong journey to six Latin American countries to see if Austen resonated with the people of Latin America. She started a…
Tag: 12 Days of Books
The 12 Days of Books – Day 4
“The library protects us from external enemies, filters the noise of the world, tempers the cold winds around us – but also gives us the feeling of being all-powerful. For the library makes our puny human capabilities fade into insignificance: it concentrates time and space. It contains on its shelves all the strata of…
The 12 Days of Books – Day 3
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Three of The 12 Days of Books! On this day, I bring to you the first of two books in our December selection that take us readers on a heroine-centric journey through literature. Every woman who reads has likely assembled her own cast of varied characters who have shaped and…
The 12 Days of Books – Day 2
“It’s a kind of alchemy, really, the way dark lines on which paper – or before paper, engraved in stone, and after paper, crystallized on a screen – cause images and ideas to appear like magic in our minds.” – p. 65 The second Book of Christmas is Booked by Karen Swallow Prior, a professor…
The 12 Days of Books – Day 1
“I can hardly conceive how limited my perception would be without the books I have been privileged to read, how superficial my understanding of others, how undeveloped my sympathies.” – p. 164 Hello Readers! Welcome to The 12 Days of Books – 12 Days highlighting our literary favorites, an annual tradition here at The…
12 Days of Books – Book Twelve
“[F]or it is good to be children sometimes and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.” I saved my favorite Christmas novel for the last day of books. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is perhaps one of the most recognizable Christmas stories in the Western World. Although I…
12 Days of Books – Day Eleven
Hello Friends! Day 11 of The 12 Days of Books brings us another holiday suspense novel by mother-daughter team Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark. In Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea, readers meet Alvirah and Willy Meehan again (a reoccurring couple in the novels produced by the mother-daughter team). This Christmas, they…
12 Days of Books – Day Ten
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Ten of The 12 Days of Books! An army of grumpy elves, two small Christmas angels, one invisible reindeer with a marzipan addiction and a whole lot of Christmas magic, that’s what you can expect from Cornelia Funke’s When Santa Fell to Earth. A magical Christmas story for children, this…
12 Days of Books – Day Nine
Hello Friends! Welcome to Day 9 of The 12 Days of Books. A Cedar Cove Christmas by Debbie Macomber is a modern re-telling of the nativity story . . . sort of. On Christmas Eve, a pregnant Mary Jo Wyse arrives in Cedar Cove looking for the father of her child (David Rhodes). She was under…
12 Days of Books – Book Eight
Hello! Welcome to Day 8 of The 12 Days of Books. As beautiful and wonderful as this time of year may be, it can often be overwhelming with office Christmas parties, secret Santa, shopping, decorating, baking, and family obligations. Personally, I find joy in the Christmas season, but some people find it stressful. In…