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Top Ten Tuesday – I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

Happy Tuesday, book lovers! It’s December, which means Christmas is just around the corner. It also means that here in Australia, we’ve officially reached summer. I’ll be the first to admit that I much prefer warm weather to cold, but there’s a part of me that really wants to have a white Christmas one of these years. So when I saw that this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl was Cozy/Wintery Reads, I couldn’t help but think of all the Christmas novellas with gorgeous wintery covers that inspire my inner Bing Crosby.

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4 December 2018

The Christmas Book Shoppe (Miranda Atchley) – Book Spotlight + Giveaway

~ About the Book ~ Keeping her book store might take a Christmas miracle… Trudy Gallagher is quite content with her simple life. For the past five years, she has lived and worked at The Christmas Book Shoppe, a new and used book store formerly owned and operated by her great-aunt. She loves nothing more than spending her days in the Victorian house filled with books, surrounded by her cat and loved ones. As Christmas, her favorite day of the year approaches, she begins the season with her usual verve and excitement. Yet when her landlord threatens to sell The

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4 December 2018

Word Nerd Wednesday – Christmas

Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël! Frohe Weihnachten! Bon Natale! Buon Natale! Feliz Navidad! However you say it, I send you greetings of the season. 🙂 Today’s word nerd choice was a fairly obvious one: Christmas. Do you know how the word came about? What about the phrase ‘merry Christmas’? Or that dreaded abbreviation Xmas? The word Christmas had its beginnings in the Old English term Cristes mæsse, meaning ‘Christ’s Mass’ (Mass meaning the Eucharist—celebration of the Lord’s Supper or Communion). Pretty straight-forward, huh? Masses specifically commemorating the birth of Christ were celebrated on 25th December as early as the 4th Century AD, but it was almost 1,000 years before

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20 December 2017

12 Days of Christmas Reads – The Twelfth Day: 'Lygos' by Ronie Kendig

Welcome to the twelfth and final day of Christmas reads! I hope you’ve enjoyed sharing Christmas with some of your favourite authors—I’ve sure enjoyed bringing them to you. And we’re going out on a bang with some Rapid-Fire Fiction from Ronie Kendig. For fans of Ronie’s Discarded Heroes series, today’s featured book is a must-have, but anyone who’s after an adrenaline-filled Christmas read will enjoy meeting Azzan and the Nightshade team.

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15 December 2017