So I’m a little late with getting this started; meant to post on Saturday, but for some reason my phone wouldn’t send pictures through. ANYWAY, each day leading up to Christmas will feature a new holiday romance (today your’e getting 3–whoo!)
The theme for Day 1′s picture is “Book and Advent Calendar”, and yes, I have no shame in declaring that I own a Disney Advent calendar, and even at the ripe old age of 38 :oP you better believe I still take the little Disney book ornaments out and hang them on my tree!
As for the book, this is one I’m currently reading. Our hero is a spy with a *very* thick Scottish brogue. Right now, it’s the classic trope where the hero and heroine are snowed in at an inn–oh no! ;o)
Everyone reblogging this today, can you make sure to add that Election Day is today, Tuesday, November 6th? I did not think it through when I posted yesterday and now all I can do is throw this comment at the bottom. 😩
GEORGIANS, VOTE FOR STACEY ABRAMS *TODAY* (Tuesday, Nov. 6)
”Some of the most commercially successful books from the ‘20s and ‘30s were actually romance fiction written by women, but they weren’t considered the best of the best. ‘Any university syllabus of the 1920s will say, James Joyce one of the most seminal authors of the 20th century, but actually one of the bestselling novels in 1926 is Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades,’ says Gillis. ‘This is what people are reading, they’re not reading Joyce.’ In the 1930s, Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca ‘sold very well,’ says Gillis, but ‘wasn’t seen as the pinnacle of a certain kind of fiction. This is because ‘mechanisms’ like university syllabi and book prizes ‘valorise a certain kind of reading,’ according to Gillis. ‘What often happens is writing by women and about women — and I’d extend that notion to the romantic comedy — gets pushed to the peripheries,’ she says.”
Musings of a Yankee Countess 