Month: December 2020
Vlogmas Day 15 🎄 Favorite Christmas Books
Showing you some of my favorite Christmas reads 📚🎄
Links to the books mentioned (Bookdepository with FREE worldwide shipping):
The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore (not the same edition)
My True Love Gave to Me (new edition)
One Day in December by Josie Silver
The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher
Secret Santa by Andrew Shaffer
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Vlogmas Day 13 🎄 Sunday Vibes
Some snippets of our Sunday ✨
Lovecraft Country 📚 BOOK REVIEW
My review of Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff 📚
I read a paperback edition of Lovecraft Country.
Genre:Â Horror, sci-fi, fantasy
Publisher:Â Pan MacMillan
Originally published:Â February 16th, 2016
Pages:Â 384 (paperback)
Audiobook length: 12 hrs and 13 mins

Synopsis by the publisher:
Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite – heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors – they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.
At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn – led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb – which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his – and the whole Turner clan’s – destruction.

My thoughts:
The thing that drew me to this book was the trailer for the HBO series that I haven’t watched yet), and I decided that I needed to read the book before watching it.
I’ve read quite a bit of Lovecraft, and I love the stories (not the white supremacist author), so I was intrigued to find out how another writer would incorporate Lovecraft’s stories into their own.
I thought Matt Ruff did an excellent job of making the story his own and giving it that Lovecraft vibe. I also think that it’s so wonderful how Ruff took inspiration from a racist author and made this story with such an incredible cast of black characters and also portraiting racism as the real monster of the story at the same time. I always appreciate it when our author reveals that the real monsters to fear are often the ones that live inside the people we see every day.
Lovecraft country follows a cast of fascinating characters but does an excellent job of giving them each a unique voice so that as a reader, I never got confused. That being said, I wish we would’ve had more time to get to know them all. With so many lead characters, I felt like I missed a bit of the depth that would’ve made me more invested in them. We also got introduced to some places and creatures that I would’ve liked to know more about.
But the story was fast-paced and action-packed. It was filled with mystery and well-developed characters.
It all wrapped up quite quickly at the end, and I felt like it left me with quite a few questions unanswered.
Lovecraft Country was a fun, dark, and interesting ride. And I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Ruby will get her own book someday!


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Vlogmas Day 12 🎄 Living Room Sleepover
We had a sleepover in our living room and it was so cozy and fun 🥰
Vlogmas Day 11 🎄 Waiting an Hour for Grinch Shoes!!
I waited for over an hour to see the Grinch collection from Irregular Choice 😅
Vlogmas Day 10 🎄 Hardback Book Haul
Showing you some of the hardback books that I’ve accumulated over the last weeks 📚
Links to the books mentioned (Bookdepository with FREE worldwide shipping):
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
Memoirs and Misinformation by Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon
Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke
Cell by Stephen King (paperback)
Needful Things by Stephen King (paperback)
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Vlogmas Day 8 🎄 December TBR
Where I show you the overly ambitious pile of books that I would love to get to during the month of December📚
Links to the books (Bookdepository with FREE worldwide shipping):
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
Secret Santa by Andrew Shaffer
Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Night I Met Father Christmas by Ben Miller
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Phantom Lock: Mysteria by A. Charles Ross
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Vlogmas Day 6 🎄 The Drone Crash
We managed to crash our new (second-hand) drone 😬 Whoopsie!
Vlogmas Day 5 🎄 Unicorn Christmas Tree
We found a new Christmas Tree and it’s PERFECT!! 🦄
Unicorn Christmas Tree (Not an affiliate link)
Secret Santa by Andrew Shaffer
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