Welcome back to Book Break! Today we have got a brand new book tag for you, this is the Winter
Traditions book tag. And as always, we would love to see your answers, whether you want to write
your answers in the comments below or film your own video and send us the link, we would love to
see. Your first task for the winter traditions tag is to wear a festive jumper or accessory.
I am doing both! And then question one is what kind of books do you traditionally like reading
in winter? And my answer to this has to be cozy crime. I am such a big cozy crime fan as soon as
the weather gets cold, the nights get dark, this is all I want to read. We do actually have a whole
video we made on cozy crime, so I will link to that below if you want more recommendations.
I've got here an old favourite, Murder at the Old Vicarage: a Christmas mystery by Jill McGown.
Question number two is do you have any traditions that you read every year? So for me the answer has
to be The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore. Every single Christmas Eve, ever since
I was tiny, my mum read us The Night Before Christmas and then we would rush outside, look
up into the sky, and see if we could see Father Christmas going across the sky. And even though
I am now nearly 30 years old we still do it every year. Question three is new traditions: are there
any books or genres that you read for the first time this year that you think you're going to make
a tradition of every year from now on? So for me I'm gonna say just Christmassy books in general.
Obviously this year isn't the first time I've read a Christmas book but I haven't usually made
that part of my whole Christmas reading schedule, I've been too busy with my cosy crime, but this
year I've been really enjoying books actually set at Christmas in the snow. I've got here The
Lotterys More or Less by one of my favourite authors Emma Donoghue. This is actually the
second book in a series about this huge blended family all living together in a massive house,
so it's very cozy actually reading about Christmas and I think I'm gonna do it every year now.
Question four is future traditions: what are you planning for your reading goals in general next
year? So I'm just planning to read a bigger range of genres. I haven't always been that good at
stepping outside my comfort zone but I really want to try because it turns out even though
I think of myself as someone who doesn't really read fantasy or sci-fi I've really really enjoyed
some fantasy sci-fi books this year. If you want to do the same thing I will link below to
a bunch of videos we've made starting people off with beginner recommendations in various genres,
I think that's what I'm going to be doing. For the next question we want you to go back in time.
Can you find a Christmas or wintery book that was published the year you were born? So I had
a look for books published in 1991, and I found a really adorable looking book called The Christmas
Day Kitten by James Herriot. So James Herriot is a vet whose memoirs are absolutely beloved by
animal lovers. They've now been adapted into a TV show, but I haven't read the Christmas Day kitten
and it looks so sweet. Apparently it's based on a true story from James Herriot's time as a vet,
and it's about a stray kitten finding a new home on Christmas morning. Next I want you to find a
Christmassy or wintery book that was published the year you started your Booktube channel or
Bookstagram, or if you don't have a channel of your own then find one published the year you
started watching BookTube. So I wasn't sure what to use as my start date because I had started
quite a few different book blogs and bookstagrams before, but I started here at Book Break in 2018,
so that is the date I'm going with. And in 2018 we published a book called Christmas:
A History by Judith Flanders which is non-fiction all about the history of Christmas traditions.
And then my final question for you is if you had to give one book to everyone for Christmas this
year, what would it be? And I'm gonna pick for this Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink.
This was my instant answer to this question, it is such a beautiful book, it is such a gifty book,
and I absolutely loved it, and wept when I read it. It's Cathy Rentzenbrink's memoir told through
books, the different books she read at different points in her life, and the comfort and joy that
they brought her. It is absolutely delightful, I think it would make such a good Christmas present
for everyone this year. But I would love to know your guys's answers particularly to this question:
if you could only give one book to everyone in your life for Christmas what would it be? So
do let us know your answers in the comments or in your own video or social media post.
Anyone who sends us the link to their video we will add you to our playlist of all of our
original tags and everyone who's done them, I will link to that playlist here so you can
go through for inspiration if you want to try out any of our other tags. And I'll see you next time!