I know, it’s not even December yet.  I should be blogging about what to do with turkey leftovers or crazy family stories. But for me, the Christmas season starts at midnight Thanksgiving night. Yesterday evening I started decorating the house (don’t have the tree yet) and the kids and I are decoratiing our gingerbread house this afternoon. In short, I’m ready to dive headfirst into the season I love best.

All of which means, I’m ready to read some Christmas stories. My all time favorite Christmas Romance is Mary Balogh’s Under the Mistletoe. It’s a collection of five novellas. One is new for this anthology, the other four are recycled from previous collections. When the book first came out in 2006, I was relatively new to the Mary Balogh party, so I hadn’t read any of the previously published novellas. All of the novellas are delightful and fun. And like all Mary Balogh, emotionally complex, even though in this case the stories are short.

As soon as I finish the book I’m working on, I plan to take a little break and get some reading done. I may tackle some of the Twilight books or I might dig back into the Under the Mistletoe and reread those. Or do you have something wonderful and Christmasy to recommend?

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