Books, Booze and Brunch

This is a perfectly adequate Christmas romance novella in which two retired hockey players end up in a bit of a Canadian shack situation and...

What a charming bite sized Christmas novella! This is actually much more in line with what I expected Honeypot to be like - it's two sec...

Look, sometimes you need to end March with a gay Christmas romance novel, okay? This one has a lot to recommend for it - it's got a bake...

This is almost a really sweet and satisfying Christmas romance novel before it kind of falls apart in the end, sadly. Margot and her girlfri...

As is probably obvious from the title of this Christmas romance novel, it's a take on It's a Wonderful Life. But instead of an actua...

Exes who reunite is one of my favorite romance novel tropes, and it pairs especially well with a Christmas romance, since it's so easy t...

I picked up this collection of essays about the holidays after watching and enjoying a Hallmark Christmas movie that the author had also wri...

We're still within the Twelve Days of Christmas, so I'm still reading Christmas books and watching Christmas movies! This one is a f...

So, this is a sequel! Something I did not realize when I started reading it. It's a Christmas-season set murder mystery at the English m...

A Christmas manor house murder mystery! The twist with this one is that it's a contemporary setting, and also that it's a game withi...

A classic kind of Poirot mystery, this time for Christmas! He and his trusty friend Catchpool are convinced by Catchpool's fairly unplea...

I liked this one better than the other romance I read by this author this month! I can't say that I completely recommend it, but this is...

Sigh, another Christmas romance that's...fine, I guess? This is somehow the third fake dating storyline within the same series, where on...

Another catch up Christmas novel! This book should be right up my alley, and instead it's one that has a pretty interesting conceit that...

Yes, it is January and yes, I am still making my way through my Christmas books from 2023! This is a deeply mediocre romance novel about a w...

My final Christmas mystery of 2023! This one was pretty entertaining - it's an obvious riff on Murder on the Orient Express, only it...

Well, one of the best things I can say for this novella is that it was short, except that its main flaw was also its slightness. Two best fr...

Another Christmas mystery novella! This one is about a woman living in New York in 2019, who always spends Christmas alone, and rereads an o...

Next up on the Christmas-themed stories, the first mystery of the month! Apparently this is a sequel novella to a very popular full length m...

We have once again hit the time of year when I stop pretending there's any chance of me getting to Book Zero and finishing my To Be Read...