Jana (That Artsy Reader Girl) hosts the Top Ten Tuesday tag, and while looking at the topics (and her blog) I found this fun book tag! To be honest I don’t love Christmas songs haha. Mostly just because they’re overplayed – however! I love seeing the ideas/prompts that came out of each of these songs.
She answered her questions with books that she read this year, which I think is a great idea so I’m going to do that as well! As much as I can anyway.
1. “All I Want for Christmas Is You”: Favorite bookish couple.
Okay I’m going to do two, one that is non-spoilery and one that is kinda spoilery. I don’t know how to make the text secret so the spoiler one will just be at the end of this section.
So the non-spoiler one! Josh and Hazel from Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating!! I love each of their personalities separately and I love even more how they are with each other.
SPOILERS FOR THE OCTOBER DAYE SERIES!!!!
(I love Toby and Tybalt!!!!!! I knew from the first book it would happen and when it finally did I was so happy).
END SPOILERS.
2. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”: Name a book where a character is away from home (school, vacation, etc.).
Gideon the Ninth! By Tamsyn Muir. Takes place at a semi-creepy crumbling down house (think more like mansion) where they can’t leave or contact anyone on the outside!
3. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”: Name your favorite “little” book (children’s book, short story, novella, etc.).
Way back at the beginning of the year I read The Test, a novella by Sylvain Neuvel. It was an easy 5 stars from me! It’s definitely better to go into it not knowing much, but it’s a really great sci-fi/dystopian novella.
4. “Santa Claus is Coming to Town“: What book(s) do you hope Santa brings you this year?
SOooooooo many. The new box set of the first three books in the Expanse series, Senlin Ascends, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery.…I could go on forever haha.
5. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”: Which book turned your nose red (made you cry)?
Magic of Blood and Sea by Cassandra Rose Clarke! It’s not really a sad book at all haha it’s just that some of the scenes reminded me a lot of certain emotions I was dealing with at the time.
6. “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”: Your favorite book/kind of book to read during the holidays.
I’m not too much of a mood reader but I like being able to read series over the holidays! Since I have a lot of free time to binge read whole series haha. So I think this upcoming holiday season I’m going to continue the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire! I binge read the first 6 books in early October (whoa, how fitting for her name – didn’t even realize that at the time) so now I’m ready to continue Toby’s journey.
7. “We Three Kings”: Your favorite trilogy.
I didn’t actually read/finish many trilogies this year! But I did read The Queen of Sorrow which was the third in the Queens of Renthia trilogy. This is a super underrated adult fantasy trilogy that I love! And this installment was amazing.
8. “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow”: A character you would love to be snowed in with.
I’m cheating and I’m gonna pick a group of characters rather than just one – I pick the characters from A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe! It would definitely be an entertaining day with all of them.
9. “Last Christmas”: A book that seriously let you down.
Circle of Shadows by Evelyn Skye 🙁 I loved the premise of this one! But it just really fell flat for me and it’s one of the rare books that I actually dislike (rather than feel ambivalent towards).
10. “White Christmas”: An upcoming release you’re dreaming about.
Probably The Shadow Saint! I still haven’t finished the first book (The Gutter Prayer) but the first half of it was AMAZING so I’m already looking forward to the second book! And I already have it preordered too haha.
I hope you enjoyed reading about my choices! And if you haven’t read these, I hope you check them out 🙂
