It’s no
secret that over the Christmas break we all want to snuggle in a large chair,
in a comfy sweater, fuzzy socks and a big mug of Hot cocoa. If this is not your
dream goal for Christmas… Then, I am afraid you’re an alien. Just saying.
That put
aside here are some of my classic reads for the Winter that will take you far
away from here into a totally different world. Or, if you have an avid bookworm at home or if you're looking for some late Christmas presents, these are for you as well... Merry Christmas!
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) - 4/5 Stars
They open a door and enter a world
NARNIA...the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country
known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy...the place where the adventure
begins.
Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the
professor's mysterious old house. At first, no one believes her when she tells
of her adventures in the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund and then Peter and
Susan discover the Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. In the
blink of an eye, their lives are changed forever
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - 4.5/5 Stars
Set during World War II in
Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel
Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager
existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t
resist – books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she
learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing
raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is
marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to
feed the soul.
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - 4.5/5 Stars
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for
recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart - he
breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from
loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first
snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone
- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place, things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - 4/5 Stars
As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King
Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at
court where a true man does what he will, not what he must … and a dead enemy
is a thing of beauty.
The old gods have no power in the south, Stark’s family is
split and there is treachery at court. Worse, the vengeance-mad heir of the
deposed Dragon King has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities. He
claims the Iron Throne.
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks - 5/5 Stars
Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The
Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned
home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its
former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen
years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling
to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only
memories...until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again.
Merry Christmas <3
- December 14, 2017
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