Winter Reading

Hello, everyone! How have you all been? 😉🥰 I’ve been well, though busy. 😅

Today, as you can see, I have some winter reading recommendations for you. 🤗 I’ll dive right in. 😉 Starting with...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Personal rating: 5✨ Goodreads rating: 4.8 ✨

“If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”

The story of miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge. Visited by the ghost of his long-dead business partner (“Marley was dead, to begin with.” 😉), Scrooge is forced to take a look at his miserable life—the past, the present, and the future. Perhaps he could change things for the better…or is it already too late?

CWs: None! 😉

Nutcracker and Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann

Personal rating: 5 ✨ Goodreads rating: 3.9 ✨

“When Christmas Eve came, he had always a beautiful piece of work prepared for them, which had cost him a great deal of trouble, and on this account it was always carefully preserved by their parents, after he had given it to them.”

Blurb: “This classic tale begins on Christmas Eve, when young Marie Stahlbaum and her siblings open their Christmas presents. One toy, a Nutcracker who looks like a soldier, soon becomes Marie’s favorite gift. That night, the Nutcracker comes to life…” –Taken from back cover of the Blackdown Publications edition

CWs: It’s been a long time since I’ve read this one, so forgive me if I miss anything. As far as I remember, the only thing that might need mentioned is sword fighting and similar “frightening” scenes and related injuries, though nothing gory. 😊 

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Personal rating: 5 ✨ Goodreads rating: 4.2 ✨

“The great, dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees. As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was nothing but woods. There were no houses. There were no roads. There were no settlers.”

Blurb: Pioneer life isn’t easy for the Ingalls family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But they make the best of every tough situation. They celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do their spring planting, bring in the harvest in the fall, and make their first trip into town. And every night, safe and warm in their little house, the sound of Pa’s fiddle lulls Laura and her sisters into sleep.

CWs: Animal killing and prep, not at all gory. Minor racist comments against Native Americans. 😕

Have you read any of these? Probably you’ve read or know at least one, I did pick pretty classic ones to highlight today. 😂 If so, what did you think? 🤔🤗

What have you all been reading lately? ☺️ I’d love it if you’d let me know your favorite winter reads! 🤗🩵✨

That’s all for now! 🥰 Merry Christmas!!! 🎄✨❤️

                                                                                                --Sara Noelle