#a December to remember

[lifeimitatesart1998]

Tis the season 🎄

[haly-reads]

jan to nov went like a 💨 but december already has been full of laughing until my eyes well up, as well as multiple breakdowns and crying, birthday, christmas shopping, masters exams, notes-notes-and more notes and whatnot

[mercerislandbooks]

Book Notes: Cozy Holiday Reading

When we’re tired out from trying to find the perfect gift or calculating just how long we can procrastinate on sending packages without actually missing Christmas, it’s nice to escape into the pages of a cozy holiday-centered read. Here are a few that I’ve finished this holiday season that are helping me get in the spirit.

While Lovelight Farms by B. K. Borison begins in the fall, it takes place at a Christmas tree farm and runs all the way through the festive season. A very fun friends-to-lovers steamy romance with some fake dating thrown in, I quickly devoured it and then read the other two in the series, In the Weeds and Mixed Signals (fair warning, these two are not set during the holidays). Adorable and cozy with small town quirkiness and recurring characters, but also definite heat in the romance department and thoughtful emotional depth.

Beth O'Leary's The Wake-Up Call is the ultimate in cozy Christmas. Izzy and Lucas agree on two things, they love their jobs and work family at Forest Manor Hotel. And they can't stand each other. But with Forest Manor Hotel on the brink of collapse, they'll have to work together (or compete, same difference) to save their jobs. Full of romantic tension!

Love, Holly, by Emily Stone, is a December to December year in the life of Holly, who is estranged from her family and finding connection with others in a similar situation by writing "Dear Stranger" letters at Christmas. Except this year, Holly's Dear Stranger letter takes her back to the place where her life changed forever, giving her the chance to take unexpected steps towards reconciliation. And fate also keeps throwing a handsome man in her way. 

Love in Winter Wonderland by Abiola Bello, was a delightful read (and the featured book on the holiday gift guide)! Trey’s family has owned Wonderland, the bookstore in Stoke Newington, for several generations, but this might be the year that ends. Wonderland is in trouble, and Trey will have to lean on his friends—old and new—to come up with ways to save his family bookstore. Meanwhile, sparks start flying between Trey and the bookstore’s newest employee, Ariel. Short chapters kept the pages turning. I loved the hopeful energy of Trey and his friends and their creativity in trying to keep Wonderland afloat.

Laurie reported she read A December to Remember by Jenny Bayliss and said “it’s a slow burn but I really enjoyed it, especially the funny complicated relationships between the three sisters.” She added that there’s a male character who is a knitter, which definitely piqued my interest!

So I’ll have to add it to my still to-be-read pile, along with Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan (the follow-up to The Christmas Bookshop) and Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien, a new edition of a 1920 classic. Plus I’ll squeeze in my annual re-read of Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher. 

Come check out our selection of holiday books, from classics and romances to mysteries and cookbooks, to find something to cozy up with this month!

— Lori

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[shihong0123]

Singing loudly for everyone to hear is the finest way to spread holiday cheer.

[lifemod17]

"I love you too, don't you ever forget that"

🎥: thisphantomlife

Riverstage, Brisbane || 11/18/2024

[blossoms-phan]

i've loved you three fourteen summers now honey, but i want 'em all

dan and phil through the years ☀️🪞🕰️💌

[aropride]

if you ever think "why bother posting my spotify wrapped/apple music replay nobody really cares anyway" think of ME. I CARE. i love that shit i love seeing what music people like and how many minutes they listened to music etc. PLEASE post them i love it i love ittttt it's like a holiday for me

[mickeygifs]

[lemonadeslice]

(INSERT “WEIRD SCIENCE” LYRICS HERE)

[d1edre]

pearl get out of there !!!!!!!!

[scribblingface]

it feels like there's no way to talk about it that doesn't sound stupid and melodramatic but it's fucking me up so bad to lose my seasons. this is about the fourth or fifth year in a row of atypical weather, but this year instead of being unpredictable it was just consistently predictably hotter in every single month. this november we've been getting october weather. in october it was like late summer. in late summer it was like it was still july. in july it was so bad I hardly left the house. like it feels like someone I know died. it feels like even the things in life that should be consistent and reliable, the aspects of the natural world far bigger than myself, are just shifting sand under my feet

[mspaint-flower]

can you draw gumi eating a carrot/nf!

🥕

[eloscore]

whatever, go my art from last year that i forgot to post

[4ce-of-2pades-inkwell]

This comic isn’t actually canon to the AU at all. It was just for the joke. Please don’t bug me about it in asks. Please I’m begging you. It never happened.

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo: Why are you- why are you giving me The Look Over? Why are you- why are you looking me up and down? Like- what's this? Why- why- why are you giving me The Eye? Why are you eyeing me up? Not interested, pal! Not interested!

Federation Guard: i like the heterophobia in your eyes

Tubbo: "I like the heterphobia in your eyes" What does that even mean? What does that even- is that even a real thing? [Whispering] Is that–?

Tubbo: Sorry, I think you misspelled "homophobia."