Blogmas 2023: The Winter Series {Joanne Demaio} Check In

Blogmas 2023: The Winter Series {Joanne Demaio} Check In

Michigan Avenue is STUNNING during this time of year!

**Video of me choosing the winner of the Sephora gift card is at the bottom of this post!**

One of my favorite holiday book series EVER is one that I have been slowly working (savouring?) my way through since December 2021. The Winter Series by Joanne Demaio is everything a holiday book series should be…light, endearing, adorable, and set in the most CHARMING small town. Basically Hallmark movies meets book series and I’m so here for it.

The Winter Series {Joanne Demaio}

HERE is the post explaining all about this book series and my thoughts after reading books 1-3 back in 2021.

Last December I read books #4 and #5 and loved them so much. It felt so wonderful to be back in the town of Addison! I have absolutely fallen in love with this adorable town and it’s adorable residents.

**I’m not including the synopsis from any of these books here because I would never spoil anything for you…just trust me, they are ADORABLE!**

Getting my hair done during last holiday season while reading book #4

Book #5 came with me on an overnight staycation with my family on Christmas Eve 2022

Gorgeous view of a frozen lake from our hotel room on Christmas Eve 2022

As hard as it was, I somehow managed to save book #6 to read during THIS holiday season! I did this knowing that the next book in this series was to be published this fall so I knew that if I could hold off reading book #6, I would have 2 books to read during this holiday season.

I am so happy that I did! I have waited allllll year to read these 2 books!

Book #6:

While I think that all of the covers in this series are gorgeous, this one is my absolute favorite. How STUNNING is this book cover???

Book #7 (which might be the most special one because Joanne Demaio herself sent it to me when she heard how much I wanted to read it! You can read more about how that happened HERE).

I can’t wait to return to Addison :). I’ve got 1 more (unrelated) book to read first and then…Addison over Christmas!! Perfect!!

Have you read any of these books? If not, I HIGHLY recommend them during this time of year!

Sephora Gift Card Giveaway Winner

Thank you to everyone who entered my annual birthday giveaway! Here is a video of me randomly choosing the winner:

Blogmas 2023 Posts:

12/1 Blogmas 2023: Welcome to Blogmas {VIDEO}!

12/2 Blogmas 2023: Happy Birthday to ME {Sephora Gift Card Giveaway}!

12/3 Blogmas 2023: Book Review: All I Want for Christmas {Maggie Knox}

12/4 Blogmas 2023: Audiobook Review: The Christmas Bet {Meg Easton}

Click HERE to order book #1 in this adorable book series (Snowflakes and Coffee Cakes) through my Amazon affiliate link. When you order through this link, I receive a tiny commission. Thank you for your support, Xo

Xo,

Jenny

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The Most Perfect Book Mail

The Most Perfect Book Mail

One of my all time favorite book series is The Winter Series by Joanne Demaio. I look forward to reading them every year! HERE is a blog post I wrote 2 years ago all about the first 3 books in the series. I’ll write a post during Blogmas all about where I’m at in the series, my thoughts, etc.

She announced last year that a new Winter book was going to be released THIS FALL (Book #7 in the series)! I have been not so patiently waiting for it’s release and ran to Barnes and Noble a few days after it’s release.

From Instagram:

Spoiler: They didn’t have it.

Aaaaand just a few hours later, LOOK WHAT HAPPENED! Joanne Demaio saw my Instastory and offered to send me a copy of her newest book!

From Instagram:

The Most Perfect Book Mail

And then just 3 days later, look what came in the mail:

Perfection. That book cover, omg. STUNNING.

Ahhhh I can’t WAIT to read this one! I usually start reading holiday books at the beginning of November but I’m thinking I may need to start even a little earlier this year. I don’t want to write the synopsis here because while these ARE stand alone novels, it’s definitely best to read them in order (crossover characters, places, etc.)

Thank you so much for your kindness, Joanne. This book series is so special to me and you just made it even MORE special 🙂

My beautiful collection of all of the books in this series (in order!)

Seriously…how GORGEOUS are these covers?!

Have you read any of these adorable books? What did you think? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!

Xo,

Jenny

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The Festive Christmas Book Tag

Book Coffee Happy was tagged in The Festive Christmas Book Tag by The Reading Addict. Thank you so much for the tag! Although I’m Jewish I ABSOLUTELY LOVE CHRISTMAS and actually have Christmas music playing as I type this 🙂 This was a fun tag to complete even if I didn’t quite understand one of the questions, lol…

The Festive Christmas Book Tag was originally created by ReadingGirl on YouTube, and you can check out her video here.

I feel like this post deserves a nice Christmasy picture inserted here but since I clearly don’t have one…here’s my menorah, lol:

The Festive Christmas Book Tag:

1) A fictional family you would like to spend Christmas dinner with?

The Quinns! Oh how I miss them this time each year. I loved Elin Hildrebrand’s Winter series so much (read more about this wonderful holiday themed series and my review of it HERE). If you haven’t yet read the Winter series, this is the very BEST time of the year to read them!

2) A bookish item you would like to receive as a gift?

My husband actually bought me the cutest bookish item last week! How awesome is this candle???

LOVE!

3) A fictional character you think would make a perfect Christmas elf?

Ok…Jewish girl here. Help! An elf like one who helps to make the toys? Or like the Elf on the Shelf who does naughty things? I don’t really get it. I’m over here picturing Will Ferrell? So clearly I’m not sure how to answer this question? Please someone educate this Jew…???

4) Match a book to its perfect Christmas song.

Hmmm. Well I would have to assume that Mallory and Jack from 28 Summers would agree that “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” would fit them perfectly. Read my review of 28 Summers HERE.

5) Bah Humbug. A book or fictional character you’ve been disappointed in and should be put on the naughty list?

Landline by Rainbow Rowell. Truly one of the worst books I’ve ever read although somehow it WON The Goodreads Best Fiction Book of 2014?! Howwww?! I hated that book. I once wrote a blog post about it titled “One of the Worst Books I’ve Ever Read”. I got absolutely ripped apart on a Facebook book group for that post because it said such negative things and people got allll riled up saying that I shouldn’t have said them (insert eye roll here). I stand by my words…that was quite literally one of the very worst books I’ve ever read! Also, I will always give my honest opinion on the books that I read (and on everything else in life). You can read that (apparently) controversial blog post HERE.

6) A book or a fictional character you think deserves more love and appreciation and deserves to be put on the nice list?

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata! It’s such a quirky book but something about it totally sucked me in. I really loved that book! You can read it’s synopsis and my review HERE.

7) Red, Gold and Green. A book cover that has a wonderfully christmasy feel to it.

How beautiful is this book cover???

I took this book from a Little Free Library last year and have yet to read it. Maybe this year? If you know me at all, you know that I could only read a book like this during the holiday season! If I don’t read this book this month…it will sit on my bookshelf until December 2021.

8) A book or series you love so much, you want everyone to find under their Christmas tree this year so they can read it and love it too?

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. It’s so amazing! I LOVED IT. Everyone should read this book! Read it’s synopsis and my (glowing) review of it HERE. American Dirt was definitely included in my 12 Best Books I Read in 2020 list that I had posted earlier in the week. You can read that post and check out the other 11 books that I LOVED reading the most this year HERE.

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Happy Friday! I hope your weekend is filled with love and BOOKS!

Xo,

Jenny

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