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Great collection of seasonal short stories. Some of the authors featured in this book I had previously read and I was quite satisfied with their work. I have now been introduced to some lovely authors that I now must go and read more by them.
Sigh. Warm, happy thoughts for Christmas. More thoughts before the year ends.
***UPDATE***
This is my second time to read a holiday-themed book for Christmas (the first was A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which I read a few years back before I started book-blogging), and I must say that I really enjoyed the experience. Reading My True Love Gave To Me in the days leading to Christmas was a perfect introduction to the holiday season because of all the feels. I really liked most of the stories i ...more
***UPDATE***
This is my second time to read a holiday-themed book for Christmas (the first was A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which I read a few years back before I started book-blogging), and I must say that I really enjoyed the experience. Reading My True Love Gave To Me in the days leading to Christmas was a perfect introduction to the holiday season because of all the feels. I really liked most of the stories i ...more
I really enjoyed a couple of the stories in this book, especially the ones by Stephanie Perkins and Rainbow Rowell. I thought most of the others were exceptionally strange. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing an ARC in return for an honest review.
I checked out this one mainly for Rainbow Rowell's story, which was the first and best of the seven (plus a few paragraphs of an eighth)stories I made it through. I gave up just over halfway through the book because I had hoped to find a little more, well, hope. Christmas stories (and many young-adult romances) do tend to offer hope, after all.
I realize these are "holiday" stories and not necessarily Christmas-themed, but I did expect to see something about the baby whose birth many of us celebr ...more
I realize these are "holiday" stories and not necessarily Christmas-themed, but I did expect to see something about the baby whose birth many of us celebr ...more
I am see I am in a minority of one but this is simply so much dross packaged as authors who you know and love writing short stories. The majority have no real structure no finite ending and require the reader to fill in the blanks. It sells books but not reading pleasure
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