...Blogmas

 

Day 12

Welcome to Blogmas!

Every day from December the first until Christmas Eve I will accompany with one Christmas related post, giving you gift ideas, tips, recipes, etc. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy Coming up with posts and writing them. 

 

Gift Guide: Films

I love watching (romantic) comedies as much as reading them and enjoy spending cold evenings watching some of my favorite films.

Here are a bunch of those I really liked and which would be great Christmas gifts:

The Proposal

starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynold and Betty White

Definitely, Maybe

starring: Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher and Rachel Weisz

Music and Lyrics

starring: Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore

Along Came Polly

starring: Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller

Rumor Has It

starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner and Shirley MacLaine

The Women

starring: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Medes, Debra Messing and Jada Pinkett Smith

You’ve Got Mail

starring: Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks

Sweet Home Alabama

starring: Reese Witherspoon and Josh Lucas

Pirates of the Caribbean

starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley

One for the Money

starring: Katherine Heigl and Jason O’Mara

Life as we know it

starring: Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel

The Ugly Truth

starring: Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler

27 Dresses

starring: Katherine Heigl and James Marsden

Letters to Juliet

starring: Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Egan and Franco Nero

... in films

Today I want to share some really good links with you.

The first article is from the blog “The Broke and the Bookish” and is about differentways of reading books. The author of this post is Julia and she talks about the fun of rereading a book. During rereading Philip Pullmann’s “His Dark Material” series she discovers the different approach to reading between her and her sister. She said something that in my opinion really sums it up. She said that her sister savors a book like good wine while she devours a book like cake. That is why she can read a book more than once.

I am so like Julia. I can and I do reread a good book with joy. I love visiting the characters again and to relive the moment when I first read it. It always brings back good memories.

The second blog I can really recommend is “The Perpetual Page-turner” by Jamie. She writes wonderful and funny posts and entertains me so often because I can often identify myself with her entries. I want to share her super funny “I think Amazon is spying on me….” post with you. I feel like a member of her “Big Ass Purse club” – which I think is a super idea. My purses are so big that my friends often laugh about me and my luggage. Well actually, because I live in Austria, they call it “Reiseschwein” which can freely be translated as a travel pig. This is a quote from an Austria children book “Gretchen Sackmeier” by Christine Nöstlinger in which the main character goes on a trip with the neighbors’ boy and his mother packed so much into his bags that they are as big as fat pigs.

And because I think they are hilarious and sooooooooooo funny … the recent Kindle ads.