Christmas in July book review: Snowed in for Christmas by Claire Sandy

(courtesy Pan Macmillan) Every year I read a lot of Christmas rom-coms and every year I’m mostly glad I did. There’s something comforting about reading about people’s lives taking a definitive turn for the better, especially when everything says there is no real hope of any kind of meaningful redemption, Continue Reading

During Christmas in July, I decorated my tree with 5 new pop culture ornaments

(via Shutterstock) Somewhere around five years ago, with Christmas in July gathering in popularity all the time, I decided that I would use the white tree originally bought to display Easter ornaments, to display some Christmas ornaments during the cold winter months in Australia. The wins were many – we Continue Reading

This Christmas in July … I read Confessions of a Christmasaholic by Joss Wood

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Christmas romantic comedies aren’t generally the time of stories to break the genre mold. And that’s perfectly okay because what you want, I would in fact argue, you need, from these types of tales is that everything that is broken can be fixed, that the Continue Reading