Holiday Reading So Far
I’ve finished two books on my holiday TBR! The first was this one: A sleeper train full of passengers heading home for Christmas… the trail gets derailed, stranding them in the snow, and there are one… two… and then three dead bodies. Ooh! I enjoyed this. It was a fun mystery, the writing was fine, and the characters were interesting. My only complaint would be, because these people are ON A TRAIN, there’s actually not a lot of Christmas-y activities. Like they’re obviously not decorating trees and baking cookies. Hoping for a little more details on Christmas festivities, I moved on to this: Sophie Appersett is the daughter of an impoverished nobleman, and her parents are hoping for her to marry Ned, a wealthy merchant. The problem is, they don’t like each other… OR DO THEY? Ned is invited to Appersett House for Christmas, to see if the couple can learn to like each other. It’s a romance, so gee, I wonder what’s going to happen??? As you may know, I never read romances, but my goal was to read one this year- mission accomplished! This book was just fine. I liked it! There was lots of decorating for Christmas, snowy walks, and of course, mistletoe. The only thing is- wouldn’t it have been even better if someone had been found stabbed to death in the library? Then Sophie and Ned could have solved the murder together! Ha ha- I’m glad I read this, but I’ll stick to mysteries from now on. Speaking of which! Next up: And, I’ve put two more books on hold at the library- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (although Nicole warned me it’s sad) and another book by Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game. These shorter, lighter books are really working for me right now- I just don’t have the brainpower to read anything complicated in November. Do you have any recommendations for my holiday TBR? Top photo by Daria Shevtsova on Unsplash