Nov
18 2008 |
Today’s book is Holiday Seduction featuring Unwrapped by Jaci Burton and To Do List by me!
UNWRAPPED by Jaci Burton – Amy Parker’s kind of fantasies wouldn’t cut it in the straight-laced law firm where she’s fought her way to partnership. And she refuses to let a younger man use her to advance in the firm. Justin Garrett might be brilliant, gorgeous and sexy, but he’s firmly implanted in the look-but-don’t-touch realm.
Until a corporate acquisition in Hawaii over Christmas gives Justin the opportunity to show Amy he’s interested in her as a woman, not as a way to advance his career. And he has the ideal plan to help unwrap the perfect Christmas gift for Amy.
TO DO LIST by Lauren Dane – Since she could pick up a pencil, Belle Taylor has used lists to map out her life. But now, just steps away from her highest career goal, she realizes the life she thought she wanted exacts too high a price.
Exhausted, she heads home for Christmas to make a new to-do list.
She didn’t factor in Rafe Bettencourt, her brother’s best friend kissing her under the mistletoe! Suddenly, Belle finds herself with a whole new set of goals to balance with what she thought she always wanted.
Because Rafe’s plan is to seduce Belle back home where she belongs.
CONTEST NOW CLOSED! CONGRATS TO THE WINNER!
YOUR QUESTION: What’s your favorite holiday story (book, novella) or movie? I’ll choose a winner tomorrow at noon pacific!
November 18th, 2008 at 6:17 am · Link
Movie – Charlie Brown’s Christmas and National Lampoon Christmas.
I detest A Christmas Story which the DH loves.
November 18th, 2008 at 7:15 am · Link
I love Christmas themed movies!! I guess my favorites would include National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and
Dr. Seussรขโฌโข How the Grinch Stole Christmas
November 18th, 2008 at 7:44 am · Link
I still love watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer every year!
November 18th, 2008 at 7:46 am · Link
Good Morning Lauren:
My current favorite is actually “Unwrapped”, by you know who!
๐
Best Regards
Lea
November 18th, 2008 at 7:53 am · Link
I can’t chose just one. Or two…
I mean, it’s one of my favorite holidays (I’m known for singing carols in the summer, for example)
Movies? There are several. I love It’s a Wonderful Life but there’s also Miracle on 34th Street.
Stories? Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” always gets to me, and therefore, most variations of the theme become favorites. Linda Howards’ Bluebird Winter is another one…
November 18th, 2008 at 7:55 am · Link
My favorite Christmas movie has to be-Santa Claus is Comming to Town. The one with Burger Meister and the song that goes something like-“put one foot in front of the other-and soon you’ll be walking ‘cross the floooor-put one foot in front of the other and soon you’ll be walking out the door”
Great now it’s going to be going through my head all day long. ๐
I love any of those stop/animation kids shows. Rudolph,Little Drummer Boy, & The Year Without a Santa Claus. We have them all on DVD and watch them every year. It is nice to share the things I loved as a child with my children now.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:01 am · Link
My favorite Christmas movies are The Santa Clause movies.
My favorite Christmas book is An Outlaw For Christmas by Lori Handeland.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:01 am · Link
my favorite would have to be Frosty the snowman. I love that movie. “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”
November 18th, 2008 at 8:14 am · Link
My favorite has to be It’s a Wonderful Life.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:30 am · Link
Right now my favorite is Elf. Just bought it on DVD so I don’t have to wait for it to be on TV.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:32 am · Link
Please don’t enter me in the contest but I just had to say I think that cover is gorgeous. Love it!
November 18th, 2008 at 8:37 am · Link
For movie, Mom for Christmas with Olivia Newton-John. It gets me everytime ๐
Delaney Christmas Carol by Iris Johansen, Kay Hooper, and Fayrene Preston. I read that one years ago and it still sticks in my mind ๐
November 18th, 2008 at 9:15 am · Link
my fav holiday movie is The Gathering starring Ed Asner. Love it!!!
November 18th, 2008 at 9:43 am · Link
Don’t put me in the drawing because I have, and LOVE, both these stories! Love, love, love them. (Did I mention I love them?)
My favorite holiday movie is The Bishop’s Wife with Cary Grant. I watch it at least once every season. It’s 28 here today so if it weren’t before Thanksgiving (not the season yet therefore against the rules), I’d watch it today.
November 18th, 2008 at 9:46 am · Link
I am such a Holiday SAPP Sucker! Bad..I mean National Lampoons BAD!
I’m out of power for ANY more lights of animated decor…yet push it EVERY year and cause the WHOLE house to go down.
Some of these aren’t Holiday..but come on during the holidays. I love ALL holiday movies…but these are sometimes the ones I find people say they never saw and WONDEFUL.
(Sorry Lauren for not exactly answering the question easily)
Aunt Mame
The Trouble with Angels
The Belles of St. Mary’s
If you catch em…watch them.
Dana
November 18th, 2008 at 10:01 am · Link
My favorite christmas story has to be It’s A Wonderful Life.
November 18th, 2008 at 10:05 am · Link
Charles Dicken’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
Movie? BAD SANTA
November 18th, 2008 at 10:18 am · Link
One of my favorites is Jane Blackwood’s story in Jingle All the Way–Maybe This Christmas. I don’t recall the others very well, but that one story is a keeper for me!
November 18th, 2008 at 10:55 am · Link
I really liked the story Love Bytes by Sherrilyn Kenyon (it’s in an antology called Naughty or Nice?)…it sets my mood for christmas really well, and it even has a knight on a white horse!
As for movies, you can’t go wrong with Love Actually….or the muppets christmas carol…
November 18th, 2008 at 11:00 am · Link
for a book it would be the stories in Naughty or Nice with Sherrilyn Kenyon, Carly Phillips, Patricia Ryan and Kathryn Smith.
For a movie I’ll go for How the Grinch stole Christmas with Jim Carey
November 18th, 2008 at 11:24 am · Link
My favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Story. I can relate to all of Ralphie’s calamities! ๐
I just read To All A Good Night by Donna Kauffman, Jill Shalvis and HelenKay Dimon. I loved all three stories!
November 18th, 2008 at 11:27 am · Link
Hands down, it’s “A Year Without a Santa Claus”. People do say I look a little like the heat miser! Know all the songs and dialogue by heart, too.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:35 am · Link
I like watching Christmas movies in December. Two of my favorites – Miracle on 34th Street and Bells of St. Mary.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:39 am · Link
Dr. Seussรขโฌโข How the Grinch Stole Christmas (cartoon version). I’ve loved this since I was a kid!
November 18th, 2008 at 12:03 pm · Link
Mickey’s Christmas Carol.
Nothing says Christmas like Scrooge McDuck.
And I absolutely loved last season’s Christmas episode of Bones, “Santa in the Slush”
November 18th, 2008 at 12:47 pm · Link
oh that is an easy one! “Meet me in St Louis” is my all time fav!!! even my boyfriend has the movie memorized because I watch it so frequently haha. Judy Garland singing ‘Have yourself a Merry Lil Christmas’ is so nice to hear while eating chesnuts with the family in front of the yule log – this doesnt actually happen (in reality everyone is running around crazily while toys are buzzing all around and the dogs are nuts), but in my mind that is how it plays, lol
xoxoxo
November 18th, 2008 at 1:13 pm · Link
My favorite Christmas story hasn’t been published yet. Unraveled by Jaci Burton – Mitch & Greta’s story. It comes out December 23, 2008 from Samhain.
November 18th, 2008 at 1:25 pm · Link
My favorite holiday movie is “The Christmas Story. My favorite holiday romance story is Nancy Warren’s “The Nutcracker Sweet.”
November 18th, 2008 at 1:40 pm · Link
My fav? Oy!
Ok…well the Grinch, Frosty the snowman, Rudolph the red nosed reindeer….
Yeah, I will go with those three.
Natasha A.
November 18th, 2008 at 1:45 pm · Link
Oh I do so LOVE Meet Me In St. Louis! I was just listening to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas the other day.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:23 pm · Link
I love “Santa Claus is coming to Town”. I watch it every year.
Tracy
November 18th, 2008 at 2:59 pm · Link
My favorite Christmas movie would be National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. You also can’t go wrong with the first 2 Home Alone movies or A Christmas Story. There are too many Christmas themed books that I like to list them here!
Oddly enough, the movie I associate with Thanksgiving is Jurassic Park. Years ago my whole extended family watched it together Thanksgiving afternoon ( I don’t remember whether it was on one of the networks or someone brought the VHS that had just come out). Since then, it has always made me think of Thanksgiving. ๐
November 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pm · Link
My favorite Christmas story is Miracle on 34th Street.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:15 pm · Link
White Christmas with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye!
November 18th, 2008 at 4:57 pm · Link
On an episode of Family Guy, Peter was watching a telemovie: KISS Saves Santa. I wish that telemovie were real…
Have a lovely day! ๐
November 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pm · Link
Oh wow, it’s so hard to choose. I love the Christmas season. I love Miracle on 34th Street and the Santa Claus movies. I love a ton of different Christmas romances.
I have both To Do List and Unwrapped in ebook format so please don’t enter me for this book. I just wanted to comment.
November 18th, 2008 at 5:10 pm · Link
I love Christmas movies, I think my favorite movie would be The Holliday, loved that movie.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:05 pm · Link
I’m also a fan of Miracle on 34th Street with Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn and a young Natalie Wood.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pm · Link
anything with santa being 6 foot tall dark handsome and forgetting his suit works for me~~ he can bring all the naughty presents he wants too
November 18th, 2008 at 6:31 pm · Link
love all the old xmas cartoons. matter of fact just bought a dvd with 10 of them on it.
November 18th, 2008 at 7:31 pm · Link
I love A Christmas Story. IT just stays with you.
November 18th, 2008 at 7:39 pm · Link
I always liked the GRINCH and Scrooged with Bill Murray. I just read Shiloh Walker’s “His Christmas Cara” from EC’s All She Wants. It was a fun Ebenezer Scrooge story.
November 18th, 2008 at 7:49 pm · Link
I love the original MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, A CHRISTMAS STORY, and DIE HARD lol. Yes, DIE HARD. It was set during Christmas and hubby and I have a tradition of watching it every year on Christmas Eve while getting toys under the tree.
For a hot Christmas story, I love WISH LIST by Sylvia Day. I’ve read UNWRAPPED by Jaci in ebook format and loved it! TO DO LIST sounds awesome too! That cover is so gorgeous. ๐
November 18th, 2008 at 8:03 pm · Link
The Grinch is my favorite Christmas movie.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:21 pm · Link
A Christmas Story is one of my fave Christmas movies. Another one is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Love those shows!
November 18th, 2008 at 8:30 pm · Link
It’s a tie between How the Grinch Stole Christmas and It’s a Wonderful Life
November 18th, 2008 at 8:34 pm · Link
National Lampoon Christmas is my favorite movie!
If I’m watching with my kidlets though, I love Frosty.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:53 pm · Link
I love watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
Book has to be How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
November 18th, 2008 at 9:12 pm · Link
My favorites are It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street…the one with Natalie Wood.
There are some great choices here and I am so thrilled by the reminder of how much I absolutely love The Trouble With Angels. Thanks for the reminder!
November 18th, 2008 at 10:51 pm · Link
Oh a fun question!!! Every year as a family we pick out a few funny Christmas movies to watch and never miss NATIONAL LAPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION. I got to make sure I record it because our DVD broke, LOL. Too, If I can find it on TV, I love watching CHRISTMAS ON WALTON’S MOUNTAIN.
For a book, oh toughie, because I love to read lots on the holidays, but I do love the EC books that had the many stories in the print anthologies. I’d read them one year in ebook then print the next year. I so wished they would have them this year? As for a specific book, the last one I read was Maya Banks’ UNDERSTOOD in the Christmas Presents anthologs