En Julsaga / A Christmas Carol REVIEW

Av Charles Dickens
Sidor: 192 (med bilder)
Förlag: B. Wahlströms

Den gamle, snåle, girige Ebenezer Scrooge får under julaftons natt möta tre vålnader. Scrooge tvingas minnas sin olyckliga barndom och hur han valde bort kärleken för profiten. Han tvingas också se hur människor trots sin nöd kan glädjas åt familjens gemenskap. Och julens budskap görs uppenbart i denna tidlösa och rysliga sägen. 

Vilken härlig bok! Jag och min kompis Maria har läst denna bok högt för varandra, med levande ljus och varm choklad har vi verkligen fått upp den juliga stämningen, och den här boken bara intensifierar den stämningen till max! 

Detta är en sann julbok, som borde läsas en bit i taget varje dag fram tills julafton. Det är såhär en klassiker ska vara! Ingen mesig kärlekshistoria här inte (Stolthet och Fördom), utan det handlar mer om den vilkorslösa kärleken alla sprider under juldagarna. Charles Dickens, du kan din sak. 

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By Charles Dickens

Pages: 104

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers

Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn’t like...and hardly a man he does. And he hates Christmas most of all. When Scrooge is visited by his old partner, Jacob Marley, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, he learns eternal lessons of charity, kindness, and goodwill. 

What a lovely book! Me and my friend Maria have read this book aloud to each other, with candles and hot chocolate, we really got up the Christmassy mood, and this book only intensifies the atmosphere to the max!

This is a true Christmas book that should be read a bit at a time every day until Christmas Eve. This is how a classic should be! No wimpy love story here no (Pride and Prejudice), but it's more about the unconditional love we spread over this festive period. Charles Dickens, you know your thing.

Yours truly

xoxo Lihini

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares REVIEW

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.” 

By David Levithan & Rachel Cohn
Pages: 260
Publisher:  Knopf Books

“I’ve left some clues for you.
If you want them, turn the page.
If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.”

So begins the latest whirlwind romance from the bestselling authors ofNick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on a favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. But is Dash that right guy? Or are Dash and Lily only destined to trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations across New York? Could their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions? Or will they be a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions?

The snow is falling outside our hotel-room.
The TV is showing the Idol finale (on mute ofc ugh...) 

And in my hands I'm holding this beautiful book. 'Dash and Lily's Book of Dares'
I absolutely loved this because of five reasons. 

1. The Christmas feeling this book gives. If you are like me and LOVE this time of the year aka CHRISTMAS TIME you'll love this book. Im serious. Love. 

2. Dash and Lily are so smart, I'm talking The fault in our stars smart, and that's saying something. 

3. The red notebook. I really don't have to say more. 

4. The writing style. This book is written by David Levithan AND Rachel Cohn and as a reader I can really see that the collaboration went well, the writing style doesn't change the way it can went it's duo authors, everything is very smooth. 

5. They are both book nerds. I don't know about you, but when I read about characters who loves books just as much as me I get ecstatic because I can really RELATE to that love.

6. The book is H I L A R I O U S. I laughed so much while eading this book, didn't matter that I was sitting on a bus with people around me, I just couldn't stop laughing. I bow down to the authors. Well done!


xoxo Lihini

I can feel the Christmas: Winter reads and other stuff

WAIT HOLD ON STOP!

Make yourself some pepparmint hot cocoa or pepparmint latte before you read this post. 

Or just anything with pepparmint, I'll have a cup too, thanks love. 

I seriously can feel the Christmas. It's not in the air but within me.
I mean, it's not even snowing yet here in Sweden.
which is weird because it ALWAYS starts to snow here in like, October.

But that doesn't mean that you can't force it up with Winter books, christmas movies, and CHRISTMAS CANDY
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Winterish/ Christmas reads

1. Dash & Lily's Book of Dares - Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
2. Let it Snow - John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle
3. Bittersweet - Sarah Ockler
4. ExMas - Kate Brian 
5. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
6. Winter Town - Stephen Emond
7. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky


Winterish/ Christmasish movies

1. Beauty and the Beast
2. the Nightmare before Christmas
3. Four Christmas
4. Home Alone
5.  the Family Stone
6. Arthur Christmas


Other random things to do before THE Day

1. Write a Christmas wishlist! 
my suggestion is that you do it early and just write in it when you come up with something that you want :)

2. Stock your kitchen with holiday yummies
I like to get anything with cinnamon and pepparmint, and I LOOOVE to bake <3

3. plan a christmas dinner with  your friends!
I'm planning on doing this this year and maybe do the secret santa thing? That would be so awesome!

4. Make a Christmas themed music playlist

... Or just have Justin Bieber's 'under the Mistletoe' album om repeat.

5. Watch Bethany Mota's Christmas vedeos.

 That gurl gets me, there is no such a things as planning Christmas too early. 

6. Most importantly: ⓈⓂⒾⓁⒺ ♡

~ Love Always

xoxo Lihini