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[romanajo123]

So I’m doing a reading challenge right now, and need help with a few of the boxes on my card. Anyone got recs/ suggestions for:

Book Set in Canada 🇨🇦 

Book Set in the Winter ❄️ 

Book with a One Word Title 

A book of Poetry 📖 

Thanks!

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Also, have a fluffy thing I grabbed from @apachefirecat; 

Send me two characters, and a number and I’ll write you a fluff drabble based on the prompt.

1) Bedsharing 2) Cuddling for warmth 3) Animal adoption 4) Making breakfast 5) Forehead touches 6) Reading together 7) Nose kisses 8) Fake dating 9) Caring for the other when sick 10) Stargazing 11) Hugs 12) Playing in the snow 13) Watching fireworks 14) Hand-holding 15) Blanket forts 16) Watching a sunrise/sunset 17) Sharing an umbrella 18) Accidental baby acquisition 19) At the beach 20) Gift-giving 21) Post no-good-very-bad-day cuddles 22) Rainy day snuggling 23) Slow dancing 24) Sharing Ice cream 25) Giving/getting flowers 26) Pillow fights 27) Wearing the other’s sweater 28) Napping in a puppy pile 29) Meeting each other at the airport 30) Surprise party

You can also throw in a different fluff prompt/ trope ! 

<small> and I don’t mind combining one or two

Comments

[liadt]

'The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding' - Agatha Christie is set in winter and has the bonus of being short.

Edward Lear books are free as ebooks for poetry, but you might get sick of limericks by the end of one!

[romanajo123]

Noted! ( I don’t mind short)

I hadn’t heard of Edward Lear.

[liadt]

When I was a kid the children's section of the library was full of Edward Lear poems. He was a Victoria writer of nonsense verse so he's PD now.

[romanajo123]

I looked and his work is on Project Gutenberg. 😃

[liadt]

Yay, if it's a DNF at least it cost you nothing!

[apachefirecat]

April 18 :) What's yours??

And for books set in Winter -- I know it's a bit out of season -- but I would definitely recommend the following to you:

How Mrs Claus Saved Christmas -- LOVED this! It actually helped me get in the Christmas mood after my Daddy passed.

The Christmas Spirit -- Just read this one this past season, and I NEVER thought I would be a Debbie Macomber fan, but this was WELL worth the read!! Loved the interactions between the Preacher and the biker gang. :) Daddy was a biker so you know how that goes :)

Best of luck, as always, my friend! <3

[romanajo123]

Oooh the first one sounds interesting :)


And thanks!

Which number and/ or ship, btw?

[apachefirecat]

If you like the old Rankins and Bass specials, you'll love that Mrs. Claus book. :)

Feel free to surprise me! :)

But I still don't have YOUR day?? :(

[romanajo123]

✅

Have you read < i> The Best Christmas Pageant Ever? < /i>
I feel like we read it or at least part of it in school. I haven’t read the whole thing. And there’s now a movie based on it!

Sent privately

[apachefirecat]

I can't say that I have. I DO remember seeing it pop up rather often in libraries and thrift stores, but it never caught my interest. Largely because, I think, either I wasn't exactly aligned with Christianity at the time, or I was but was looking for more serious/deeper reads.

[john_amend_all]

Off the top of my head, the only book I can name set in Canada is John Buchan's Sick Heart River aka Mountain Meadow.

Books with a one-word title: A couple of sci-fi ones are Asimov's Foundation and Banks's Excession. (ETA: And then there's Niven's Ringworld and Pratchett's riff on it, Strata).

For poetry, I'm tempted to recommend The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse by D. B. Wyndham Lewis.

Fluffy thing... I wonder about 12 for Bill/Heather. (27 for Jamie/Victoria is impeccably canon, of course).

[romanajo123]

Noted. Isaac Asimov is an author who I have heard of, but not actually read. And I have read a handful of Pratchett’s books, but I don’t have that one! :)


That does sound fluffy

[thisbluespirit]

For a Book set in Canada, there is all the LM Montgomery books, if that's not too obvious - all the Anne of Green Gables, and Emily books and the rest.

[romanajo123]

Ooh! I remember there was an animated series based on Anne of Green Gables I watched on Saturday Mornings when I was younger. I’ve never read the books.

awww that icon is pretty 🤩