2013 Christmas Reading Challenge and my fave holiday movies + playlist!

This year I decided to join the Christmas Reading Challenge. If you like to join here’s how…

It's time! The 5th year of the Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge! Like last year, there are multiple levels for participation, like children's books and watching Christmas movies...and there is an extra special twist this year...so read on!

Details and sign up:

•challenge will run from Friday, November 22, 2013 through Monday, January 6, 2014 (Twelfth Night or Epiphany).

•cross over with other challenges is totally permitted AND encouraged!

•These must be Christmas novels, books about Christmas lore, a book of Christmas short stories or poems, books about Christmas crafts, and for the first time...a children's Christmas books level!

Levels:

Candy Cane:  read 1 book

Mistletoe:  read 2-4 books

Christmas Tree:  read 5 or 6 books (this is the fanatic level...LOL!)

           Additional levels:

Fa La La La Films:  watch a bunch or a few Christmas movies...it's up to you!

Visions of Sugar Plums:  read books with your children this season, share what you read

*the additional levels are optional; you still must complete one of the main reading levels above.

•the most important rule?  Have fun!!!

•I will have a review linky posted as a page the day the challenge starts.  You will find it at the top of the left sidebar.
•Sign up in the linky below (link to your post with your reading list...you can change up your list during the challenge...I just want to be able to stop by to welcome you and see what you plan to read).

**One final note:  I am going to do a giveaway of one mystery box of Christmas books to participants in the U.S. I will also pick an International winner who will win $5.00 to spend at Amazon.

Level I choose:

Mistletoe

Books I hope to read:

The Christmas Cookie Collection by Lori Wilde

Holiday Heart by Marilyn Conner Miles

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Marie Landry

Fa La La La films [these are ones I watch every year]:

A Christmas Story

The Holiday

Serendipity

This Christmas

Christmas with the Kranks

Love Actually

The Family Stone

Charlie Brown Christmas

Elf

Home Alone

It’s a Wonderful Life

Frosty the Snowman

Nothing like the Holidays

Favorite Hallmark Movies [they are the BEST!!]…

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Trading Christmas

Christmas with Holly

The Christmas Ornament [new this yr but already a fave]

Snow Bride [new this yr but a fave already]

Mrs. Miracle

Now on to the music! Here is my holiday playlist that truly represents me. It has the classics, old school R&B/Jazz and some new stuff.

My Playlist

Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee

Run Run Rudolph by Chuck Berry

Baby it’s Cold Outside by Ray Charles

Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms

The Christmas Song Nat King Cole

Sleigh Ride by Ella Fitzgerald

Christmas [Baby Please Come Home] by Darlene Love

This Christmas by Donnie Hathaway

What Christmas Means to Me by Stevie Wonder

Merry Christmas Baby by Otis Redding

It’s Beginning to Look A Lot like Christmas by Michael Buble

Let it Snow by Michael Buble

I’ll Be Home for Christmas by Michael Buble

Wonderful Christmastime by Demi Lovato

Last Christmas by Wham!

Have Yourself a Merry little Christmas by Luther Vandross

All I want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey

Oh Santa by Mariah Carey

Underneath the Tree by Kelly Clarkson

River by Joni Mitchell [technically not Xmas but somehow fits]

Merry Christmas Darling by The Carpenters

Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses

Christmas in Hollis by Run-DMC

Got any faves? Please share!