Starting on the Christmas books now
@shaggin (71659)
United States
November 30, 2019 10:32pm CST
This morning I laid in bed awake for a half hour and kept hearing the dog pacing and quietly whining. I didn’t want to get up and wake up my son but by 9am I couldn’t stand laying there any longer and got up.
When I got downstairs I started laughing seeing my son was already awake and I was so tired I didn’t even hear him get up.
Every year in December I read Christmas themed books. I just finished reading “Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris. Since tomorrow is December 1st I went down in the cellar and dug out a Christmas book out of the decoration totes.
This book is called “A Log Cabin Christmas Collection” with historical romances stories by 9 different authors. I’m not a fan of reading collections but it was the only book in that particular tote that I could get to. A cousin of mine gave it to me a few months ago. It was his late wife’s.
A little good news is I received a $5 Amazon e-gift card from Crowdtap.
Photo is of the book I am reading.
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
1 Dec 19
@dfollin I believe it is a religious book. I am not a fan of them but some are okay. I hope when I get the rest of the Christmas decorations out today that there are more Christmas books. This one is so thick and I don't take time to read very often that I hope I finish it before Christmas.
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@Tina30219 (81539)
• Onaway, Michigan
1 Dec 19
@shaggin Yes she is a religious author I have read quite a bit of her books and like them all.
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@BarBaraPrz (45437)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
1 Dec 19
I'll be re-reading John Grisham's Skipping Christmas later today, if I ever get off the computer.
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@BarBaraPrz (45437)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
1 Dec 19
@shaggin Reading stirs my imagination.
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
1 Dec 19
@BarbaraPrz online everything I do earns money or gift cards etc. Reading makes me feel unproductive which leads to guilt.
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
1 Dec 19
@BarBaraPrz that's great! Do you write books or anything?
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@Tina30219 (81539)
• Onaway, Michigan
1 Dec 19
You are right it is good news on the e-giftcard. I hope you enjoy your Christmas book Wanda is a good author.
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
1 Dec 19
@Tina30219 she wrote a story in the book called "The Christmas Secret"
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
1 Dec 19
@Tina30219 I rather have some nice yummy warm coffee but it makes my face break out so I've been drinking iced tea in the morning.
@Tina30219 (81539)
• Onaway, Michigan
1 Dec 19
@shaggin I will have to look that one up and see if I can get it. Enjoy reading it and while you are doing it enjoy some hot chocolate as well
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
1 Dec 19
@CRK109 it does help to get in the holiday spirit. Any books I don't get to I pack away until the next Christmas. I have about 7 in the pile I can read. I hope to knock off a few of them by Christmas so I won't have to pack them away again.
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@snowy22315 (169582)
• United States
1 Dec 19
I guess it is a good time to read a Christmas collection!
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
2 Dec 19
@snowy22315 I won't start reading Christmas books before December first and I won't start a new Christmas book after the 25th. I have 24 days to read 8 books. Whatever I don't get to I'll pack away for next year.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
2 Dec 19
I am not a big fan of collection books either, but I have one or two of them.
Yay for the $5 gift card. I do read some Christmas themed stuff, but so far this year I haven't much been in the mood for one.
It was snowing in one scene of the book I am reading now though, I guess that counts? 
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
2 Dec 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum if I go somewhere there are free books and I see a collection I won’t take it. This was dropped off at my house in a huge box of books. I donated most but kept a few others.
I love reading Christmas books at Christmas time. Maybe before Christmas you will want to read one. If not that’s fine too.
@shaggin (71659)
• United States
2 Dec 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum we have a lot of little free libraries around here. My nieces grandmother passes her books on to me and I pass mine to her. Our library discards and gives the books away often.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
2 Dec 19
@shaggin The "free" books at the thrift store I go to are usually full of manuals, but I think I've spotted a fiction collection a time or two. There are sometimes gems in there. I suppose a more cunning eye would nab some up and sale them to the collector on ebay.
Yes, we shall see as the month goes on whether I will want to read Christmas books or not.
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@Marilynda1225 (79570)
• United States
2 Dec 19
Reading Christmas books certainly will get you in the holiday spirit
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@sallypup (57717)
• Centralia, Washington
1 Dec 19
Do you remember how the women's magazines used to have short Christmas stories in them? Years ago my Mom gave me a book of Christmas stories and every year we read some of them together again. Final note: I write my own Christmas short stories. I've done this for several years now. I snail mail them to about 25 friends.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
2 Dec 19
i hope you end up enjoying the book.
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
2 Dec 19
@Courtlynn I’m a few chapters in and enjoying it. It’s really thick so it will take me awhile to get through it.
@Michellekidwell (29260)
• Sonora, California
1 Dec 19
Looks like a good book...
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
1 Dec 19
@Michellekidwell I read the first chapter last night. It was short but I liked it.
@shaggin (71659)
• United States
1 Dec 19
@Butterfingers I like to read books set in simpler times now and then.
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