Christmas Films
My favourite Christmas films are a little eclectic. Hubs and I just watched the Snow Bride and it was like an MM Christmas book with all the fantastic plot lines and the secrets, and the knowing mum, and the brother, and the misunderstandings, and the baddie and the goodie and hidden love… oh and a beautiful mansion in snow… win/win.
Die Hard and Lethal Weapon also make my list. Both films are set around Christmas and the way both films use music and jingle bells always makes me laugh.
My favourite version of Christmas Carol is the one with Patrick Stewart. There’s something about Picard in a Christmas film. I love his Shakespearian gravitas and the film always makes me well up.
Love Actually and I KNOW people will jump on me for this. BUT… it’s happy (mostly) and the bit that gets me the most is the part with the sister who can’t have love because she deals with her brother. The film made me talk to B about what kind of care Matt might need and how as parents we didn’t want her to feel her life wasn’t her own. Cliché it is, but still it captured my heart.
What are your favourite Christmas films?
Blurb:
What happens when a broken man has to trust in the impossible?
Chapter One, an antique book shop is the last tangible thing Josh and his mom have left of his dad. Nestled in a quiet square a few steps from London’s St Pauls Cathedral, it is boarded up with whitewashed windows and no new stock. The place is a sad reminder of loss and it has to go, but destroying a business that has been in his family for generations is not a role Josh is looking forward to.
Michael is the owner of Arts Desire, the shop next door. With his rainbow pride mugs and his sunny positive outlook he is the complete opposite to what Joshua thinks he needs in his life.
But, when Josh and Michael become friends, Josh learns that finding true love starts with making big decisions, and that everyone deserves their own Christmas miracle sometimes.
Excerpt:
Michael stretched tall, reaching his fingers towards the ceiling. The shirt he was wearing rode up slightly to expose an inch of warm skin, and abruptly Josh was less about panic and more about desire to touch. Michael tilted his head a little, and Josh tensed at the look in his brown eyes before standing up. There was heat in those and Josh’s body reacted to the emotion, and suddenly he didn’t know what else to do other than to touch.
They met in the middle, a simple contact of fingers, a question on Josh’s lips that he never actually formed into words as his breath was stolen by the gentle stroke of Michael’s lips on his. There was nothing more to the kiss than the connection of fingers and lips, but it was the most intense kiss Josh had ever experienced. For his part, when they separated, Michael’s eyes were half-closed, a look of naked need painted across his face, and Josh couldn’t believe the beauty there.
The kiss turned to a second and then a third, until Josh leaned back against the wall and pulled Michael with him, Michael resting in between Josh’s spread legs and deepening the kiss. It was like ambrosia—tasting, touching, whispering words of hope and want into each other and exchanging breath and body heat in the darkened shop.
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I’m going to guess coffee. I reread the excerpt three times and didn’t see coffee or tea mentioned.
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totally agree with krazekat on this….the excerpt does NOT mention tea or coffee
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Loved the excerpt, but no mention of coffee or tea. Is this a trick question? 🙂
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The excerpt of chapter 1 up on RJ’s blog gives the answer to the question in the rafflecopter. Thank you for the giveaway. He opted for coffee.
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Coffee was what he opted for. Thanks for the chance at the giveaway!
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