Helloo 👋🏼
It’s not the first time you’ll see me say this, but despite being a christmas season baby, the holidays is NOT my favorite time of the year.. Mainly having nobody but my parents & animals to celebrate it with, mixed up with a lack of traditions is my reason why.
However, as I rarely read according to season, that’s something that I had been wanting to try! Never know, maybe that’ll help me get a bit of season’s cheer..
The blogosphere has been loaded with holiday books ever since september rolled around I believe, so there had been PLENTY of books eyeing me to add them to my list.
As the synopsis is ofcourse the most important thing i’m looking for, here’s what will get me to add the book on my list:
🎄 The grinch/damaged character
Having a book starring someone like me, who isn’t a fan of the holidays OR is going through a grief of some sort, it’s an automatic win! Bonus if something or someone can change that for them..
🎄 Disfunctional families
Better paired with the above point, it always interrest me more when one character is used to a same family dynamic as mine does – either absent or disfunctional. We want them to go experience Christmas in a good family for once.
🎄 Christmas with a twist..
I still remember the first time we fell on the Krampus movie- it absolutely took us by surprise of being a horror christmas movie! I found two Christmas thrillers to put on my list this year, i’m loving the concept on having the focus on something different than the general idea of the holiday cheer.
🎄 Animals involved
Working in the animal-world at a petshop has been so dreamy. Anything involving around it is an immediate add aswell- but Christmas at a vet/rescue/etc.? Hell ya! I had also read Christmas at Cockleberry Bay, which ofcourse starred my beloved Hot the dachshund, that i’m constantly amazed by how well she wrote him being 100% a character in this story ❤️
🎄 Book-world related
Similar to the previous point, I’m a sucker for books setting around libraries, bookstores, or even starring Book bloggers in them!
The usual “family” theme that’s quite recurrent in holiday books are bittersweet for me.. While it can feel warm and like i’m part of them too, like they’re real outside the book, it sometimes makes me miss what I don’t have. I’m thankful to still have one side of my family united, but it’s tricky because we’re a 3hrs drive away and we don’t have any family house anymore. Canadian weather being the worst with unpredicted snowstorms, it can be quite dangerous and one can’t travel as they want in winter.
What do you look for in holiday books?