I enjoy holiday-themed books this time of year. Last year, I read romance writer Beth Carter’s Miracle on Aisle Two. Then she surprises me with yet another romance out this Christmas!
Carter’s holding an online launch party for The Christmas Fib this Thursday (Dec. 18), per her Facebook page. I just finished reading The Christmas Fib. It’s a fun page turner that starts with Brooke Hamilton opting to relax alone for the holidays and lying to her mother about being ill to make it happen. Shouldering grief for her dad and guilt about the big lie, she hopes to create new holiday memories in the snow-capped mountains of Colorado. When Brooke checks into a quaint inn, this fun holiday story unfolds with lots of wonderful glittering Christmas treats and all the romance you could ask for from Santa. The Christmas Fib may just be more fun than Carter’s first Christmas romance, Miracle on Aisle Two!
As always, I try to highlight a few words for this book review blog. For these two delightful holiday reads, I simply picked words pertaining to the season.
From The Christmas Gift: “’Mom.’ Tate rolled his eyes. ‘You know I don’t believe in Santa.’
‘In that case, no gifts for you from Old Saint Nick.’
Gift, noun. 1. a thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present.
- an act of giving something as a present
- a very easy task or unmissable opportunity
2. a natural ability or talent.
verb, give (something) as a gift, especially formally or as a donation or bequest
- present (someone) with a gift or gifts
- endow with
From The Christmas Gift: “I’m planning to make all of your favorite things. You know, those fun treats we always make at Christmastime like chocolate-covered cashews, butterscotch haystacks, and your favorite, chocolate rum pecan pie. I also bought stuff to we could make those pretty holly centerpieces, and—”
Christmastime, noun. the Christmas season. Christmas is a Christian holiday to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity.
From Miracle on Aisle Two: Sobbing happy tears, she mumbled, “I love you, too. If I didn’t believe in miracles before, I certainly do now.”
Miracle noun. a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency.
- a highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment that brings very welcome consequences
- an amazing product or achievement, or an outstanding example of something.
ORIGIN: Middle English: via Old French from Latin miraculum ‘object of wonder,’ from mirari ‘to wonder,’ from mirus ‘wonderful.’
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Check out Beth Carter’s Christmas romances and her Coconuts series onAmazon
Or, see her Facebook at page https://www.facebook.com/authorbethcarter
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Definitions are typically from the dictionary that comes with my Mac or The New Oxford American Dictionary.
“The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God’s name would you want to make things worse by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you really wanted to use?” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.
Lori Ericson 