What Would You Put Under the Tree?

Merry Christmas, Seekerville.

This is the time of year when everyone starts making their "best of" lists for 2021. My daughter, the librarian, has compiled her staff's picks for their favorite books of the year, and that gave me an idea.

Some of us still have presents to buy, some of us will get gift cards for Christmas, and some of us are just always looking for any excuse to buy a book.

So, today I have a question for you.

If you were putting the presents under the tree, what books would you pick to gift? What were some of your favorite reads this year??

I'll get us started.

One book I loved this year was Patti Callahan's Once Upon a Wardrobe - I read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe with my 6th grade class earlier this year, so I was fully ready to return to Narnia with Patti in this enchanting story.

The Mountains Wild by Sarah Stewart Taylor was another book I really enjoyed this year. It's a murder mystery set in Ireland and on Long Island. A little gritty, but I loved how it reminded me so much of the Ireland I visited several times back in the early 80s.  I enjoyed the sequel, A Distant Grave, even more, and I'm really looking forward to Book 3, The Drowning Sea, out this spring.

The third book I'll mention is All the Ways We Said Goodbye, a complex tale (or three tales) written by three separate authors, but the stories are completely entwined. Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig weave their story through France in WWI, France in WWII, and France in 1964. I loved how everything tied all together in the end.

Please let us know, what book would you recommend to go under the tree?