Here's a quick wrap-up for the week to keep me on track with blogging (THREE posts this week!) and share what I'm doing (it's not reading lol) and loving.
CHRISTMAS MOVIES
🎄 A Castle for Christmas on Netflix: Was it a little cheesy and predictable? Yes. But it was sweet, funny, the gowns were gorgeous, the small town delightful. an older couple falling in love! and Cary Elwes!!!
🎅 Single All the Way - Netflix: Super cute BFF's to more Christmas romance. It often got too chaotic and over-the-top but still fun. I usually hate interfering, nosy family but Peter's dad and manipulative cousins were a hoot and his best friend Nick was the most awesome, patient guy ever.
🎄 I think I already mentioned Love Hard - Netflix: but I'll re-up my recommendation in case I didn't. One of my favorites this year.
🤶 An Unexpected Christmas - Hallmark : Really liked this one! It had a more modern feel than most Hallmark movies. Lots of snarky banter - 2nd chance romance, fake relationship and an awesome sister! Re-airing on December 18th 6pm/5pm Central if you didn't catch it the first time.
Daisy The Great & AJR - Record Player
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I thought this was a ridiculous song at first but it's kind of retro and catchy and now I love it lol
I'm finishing up Annabeth Albert's Christmas The Geek Who Saved Christmas and it's adorable, festive and fun. (a Kindle Unlimited book)
I'm still working on Roxy by Neal & Jarrod Schusterman.
The Lucky Escape by Laura Jane Williams looks like a really fun romcom (pub date 11/21)
All the Right Reasons by Bethany Mangle is described as a Gilmore Girls/ The Bachelor mash up. Honestly, I don't like either of those shows lol but the premise still sounded good to me. (pub date 2/22)
Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden - Luca, a rising ballet student breaks his foot and then has to decide what he wants to do next and it might involve the cute rowing start and school captain. This has many rave reviews so fingers crossed! (pub date 1/22)
What have you been up to this week? Any recommendations?
Go Karen, go! I'm watching Single All the Way tonight 🎅🎅
ReplyDeleteAND I finished 27 2020 Christmas movies *passes out* lol
DeleteI loved Single All the Way and A Castle For Christmas! I'm currently reading and loving The Geek Who Saved Christmas!
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There have been some fun ones this year! Netflix's have been especially good so far.
DeleteThe Geek Who Saved Christmas was so sweet.
Wow, I haven't seen Cary Elwes in a minute. An Unexpected Christmas sounds like one of the better ones. I'll have to see if it's available to stream.
ReplyDeleteWe watched it because of him but it was actually pretty good!
DeleteI haven't seen any Christmas movies yet, yikes this year! I hope you love your review books. I always love and dread getting surprise ARC's because it's exciting but then I realize I have to read and review them, lol.
ReplyDeleteI do a weekly virtual movie date with my friend so that helps keep me on track lol
DeleteI haven't had an ARC in about a year!
I need to check out some of the Christmas movies on Netflix! I tend to forget about them. hah
ReplyDeleteI do want to read The Geek Who Saved Christmas; I just love the author, and it looks cute.
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Netflix is doing excellent with Christmas movies this year!
DeleteLove Hard looks fun. I need some holiday movies so gonna scope that one out on netflix...
ReplyDelete"she's 70 now, and she has a pacemaker" lolol
I'm still watching Hawkeye .
Love Hard was just a great romcom.
DeleteI haven't watched Hawkeye yet. I like Black Widow's sister though and I hear she's in it
I'm watching the Matrix now in preparation for the new one. I've never seen it!
YES Yelena is badass. Although I haven't seen the new episode with her in it yet lol...
DeleteI never liked the Matrix but I'm reading a book now that argues we're all living in a Matrix- like simulation. It's wild.
So far, I liked the first Matrix movie - the 2nd? eh
DeleteThere are definitely a lot of parallels to current life and I'm really wishing someone would just put me in the fake world where I could be oblivious and happy lol I don't care if it's fake. Ha!
Both those YA contemporary books are on my anticipated list. I don't have much luck with that publisher, but I plan to read both. Hope you enjoy them.
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of shocked they'd send me anything lol
DeleteI haven't been reading much but I have been binge watching some shows. I watched Riverdale and loved it.
ReplyDeleteThen I watched Lost in Space and loved that as well.
I've been watching way more than reading lately.
Delete"For the first time in a while, I've received several books for review. So now I have to read them lol"
ReplyDeletePunishment 😂😉.
Ha! Yes. The good news is... you got books. The bad news is...you have to read them lol
DeleteI need to write down some xmas reviews too :D
ReplyDeleteYou doooooo
DeleteI've been seeing your tweets about the Christmas movies you've been watching. Lately I've been ending up with so many Christmas romance books to read that I'm too busy with that to watch movies lol. But some of these sound cute!
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked that I'm staying up to speed with the 2021 movies lol You probably saw that I had to clear through 27 2020 ones.
DeleteI just started reading a few holiday novellas.
I haven't watched the Hallmark channel one - so I'll add it to my list. Loved Love Hard. Single All the Way was cute but the characters were a bit over the top for me. I enjoyed it, but won't be adding it to the rewatch list. I cannot get my girl to watch the other one... She says it looks boring *eyeroll* Anyhow, we just finished a rewatch of both MCU Spiderman Movies in preparation for No Way Home out this weekend. We have tickets for Sunday. Other than that, it's business as usual.
ReplyDeleteI agree about Single All the Way. I liked it but it got really chaotic at times in a weird way.
DeleteI enjoy your graphics so much. 🐶🐶🐱
ReplyDeletelol Thank you. Sometimes wasting my time doing them helps me out of a blogging slump.
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