Festive Reading Diary 🎄 Reading 24 Books in 24 Days ❤️

Hello fellow bookworms 🎄 Merry Christmas Eve! It’s time for another Reading Diary! I knew I had to do another one for the festive season, as I planned to read a lot of perfect Christmas/winter books 🎄 This time I joined the Reindeer Readathon again and you can see my TBR here! However, I also read a lot of other books that didn’t fit the prompts and made use of many graphic novels and audiobooks. I didn’t intend to read quite so much, but in the end, it turned out I read 24 books and the year isn’t even over yet 😂 I stopped my Reading Diary on Christmas Eve because I wanted to do a festive theme, but there are a couple more months left in the year!

Overview + TBR

• Week 1 ~ 01.12. – 05.12.
• Week 2 ~ 06.12. – 12.12.
• Week 3 ~ 13.12. – 19.12.
• Week 4 ~ 20.12. – 24.112.
• Wrapup

Week 1 ~ 01.12. – 05.12.

🎄 Festive Update 🎄 

➽ I didn’t start out December feeling super festive if I’m being honest. I think it was the lingering stress from November that still made me feel tired, but I tried my best to make things cozy! I baked Waffles over the weekend, made some soup and rewatched Home Alone with a friend, which was super nice and made for a relaxed weekend ❤️  I didn’t think that I had read much so far, but then I was surprised to find out that it was more than expecteed! I also binge-read 4 picture books one evening when I was in a bad mood and it was the best form of self-care 🥰

❄ Books I Read ❄

• The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily (Cohn, Levithan) ⭐⭐⭐⭐🦌 (DONNER – Red/Green Cover) 🦌
• Sugar and Spice (Eli Wray) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🦌 (CUPID – New Author) 🦌
• Little Red Sleigh (Erin Guendelsberger) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Ten Ways to Hear Snow (Cathy Camper) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Home Alone 1 (Kim Smith) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Home Alone 2 (Kim Smith) ⭐⭐⭐

🎁 Currently Reading 🎁

• Winterhouse (Ben Guterson) ~ 52%
• The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden) 🎧 ~ 50% 🦌 (BLITZEN – Randomly Chosen) 🦌

Week 2 ~ 06.12. – 12.12.

🎄 Festive Update 🎄 

➽ I got really into reading again and tried to make myself feel a bit more festive! I went to Starbucks on Monday and had a Gingerbread Latte with a cinnamon roll (small victories: I wanted to eat that cinnamon roll since before the pandemic started but it never ended up happening, until now!) I also cheered myself up with some of my favorite Christmas movies (Arthur Christmas & Elf; I also watched Princess Switch 3 with my friend and it was surprisingly more fun than the two previous ones 😄). It also SNOWED AGAIN!!!! which made me very happy as I love snow so much! Another highlight was watching Alexandra Roselyn’s Vlogmas videos and her sprints with Gavin! I couldn’t attend them live (it’s at 1am for me) but I watched them afterward and I loved the slumber party atmosphere so much ❤️

❄ Books I Read ❄

• Snow in Love (Anthology) 🔄 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
• Let it Snow (Green, Johnson & Myracle) 🔄 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 🦌 (DANCER –  Book by Fave Author) 🦌
• Winterhouse (Ben Guterson) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The First Noel (Eli Wray) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Secret Santa (Eli Wray) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Oddball (Sarah Andersen) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Bear & the Nightingale ⭐⭐⭐ 🎧 🦌 (BLITZEN – Randomly Chosen) 🦌

🎁 Currently Reading 🎁

• In a Holidaze (Christina Lauren) 🎧 ~50% 🦌 (RUDOLPH – Standalone) 🦌
• The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch (Tom Fletcher) 🦌 (PRANCER – Travel/Journey Element) 🦌

Week 3 ~ 13.12. – 19.12.

🎄 Festive Update 🎄 

➽ This was my last  full week before going home for the holidays! It was the week I finally felt myself relax a tiny bit which was nice. I watched a ton of Christmas Movies (Let it Snow, A Christmas Carol, Home Alone 2; plus Single All the Way with my friend) and had breakfast + also dinner with a classmate. We went to this one café that was super festively decorated and offered Christmas specials (I had a very delicious brownie with cookie crumble on top) 🥰 On Sunday, I took the train home to my family, as I only have online classes the following week! I read The Girl Who Saved Christmas on the train in one sitting because it was so good! 🎄

❄ Books I Read ❄

• My True Love Gave to Me (Anthology) 🔄️ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) 🔄️🎧 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🦌 (DASHER – Novella) 🦌
• In a Holidaze (Christina Lauren) 🎧 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🦌 (RUDOLPH – Standalone) 🦌
• The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch (Tom Fletcher) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🦌 (PRANCER – Travel/Journey Element) 🦌

• A Mouse Called Miika (Matt Haig) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
• The Truth Pixie (Matt Haig) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily (Cohn & Levithan) 🎧 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎁 Currently Reading 🎁

• The Girl Who Saved Christmas (Matt Haig) 🦌 (VIXEN – Caught your Eye) 🦌

Week 4 ~ 20.12. – 24.112.

🎄 Festive Update 🎄 

➽ I still had some classes right before Christmas, but I enjoyed the time at home 🥰 I watched two more Christmas movies (David and the Elves and my annual rewatch of The Polar Express) and was finally able to read in the bath again!! I don’t have a bathtub at my flat, but I love bath bombs, lighting candles and reading a book, which I got to do again! I also continued coloring in my new Advent Calender Coloring Book while listening to the Christmasaurus. This was a reread for me, but I saw that my library just got a special ‘musical’ audiobook version 👀 It contains some extra songs the author came up with that aren’t in the original story, which was fun!

❄ Books I Read ❄

• The Afterlife of Holly Chase (Cynthia Hand) 🔄 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
• The Girl Who Saved Christmas (Matt Haig) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 🦌 (VIXEN – Caught your Eye) 🦌
• The Christmasaurus (Tom Fletcher) 🔄🎧 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• A Holiday by Gaslight (Mimi Matthews) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Wrapup

💕 Books Read 💕

🦌 = Read for Reindeer Readathon

1. My True Love Gave to Me (Anthology) 🔄️ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) 🔄️🎧 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🦌 (DASHER – Novella) 🦌
3. Snow in Love (Anthology) 🔄 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
4. Let it Snow (Green, Johnson & Myracle) 🔄 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 🦌 (DANCER –  Book by Fave Author) 🦌
5. The Afterlife of Holly Chase (Cynthia Hand) 🔄 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
6. A Mouse Called Miika (Matt Haig) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
7. The Girl Who Saved Christmas (Matt Haig) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 🦌 (VIXEN – Caught your Eye) 🦌
8. Winterhouse (Ben Guterson) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily (Cohn, Levithan) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🦌 (DONNER – Red/Green Cover) 🦌
10. Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily (Cohn & Levithan) 🎧 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
11. In a Holidaze (Christina Lauren) 🎧 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🦌 (RUDOLPH – Standalone) 🦌
12. The Christmasaurus (Tom Fletcher) 🔄🎧 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
13. The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch (Tom Fletcher) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🦌 (PRANCER – Travel/Journey Element) 🦌
14. The Truth Pixie (Matt Haig) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
15. Sugar and Spice (Eli Wray) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🦌 (CUPID – New Author) 🦌
16. The First Noel (Eli Wray) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
17. Secret Santa (Eli Wray) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
18. A Holiday by Gaslight (Mimi Matthews) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
19. Oddball (Sarah Andersen) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
20. Little Red Sleigh (Erin Guendelsberger) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
21. Ten Ways to Hear Snow (Cathy Camper) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
22. Home Alone 1 (Kim Smith) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
23. Home Alone 2 (Kim Smith) ⭐⭐⭐
24. The Bear & the Nightingale ⭐⭐⭐ 🎧 🦌 (BLITZEN – Randomly Chosen) 🦌

What have you read in December? Any new favorite books? Did you read any good festive books? 🎄