 greetings warriors and welcome back to my channel and welcome to a Christmassy themed video. I am super excited to do this video. I first saw Beth over at Book's Nest do this video so I very much encourage you to check out her original video. I will be using mostly the same prompts that she did. It's not a tag or a challenge or anything like that. I just thought that this was such a fun creative video and I wanted to do it. I did have to change some prompts around because it is very much based off of her Christmas tree decorations and my Christmas tree has some different decorations so I was able to keep some of the prompts but for different decorations but for one or two of them I did have to change them around completely. So the first prompt that she has on her tree which also fits on my tree very well is a red bulb. This is our red bulb. A common book on people's shelves with a red cover and so I'm going to be keeping that prompt and the thing is is that I have books with red on the cover but not like a lot of red on the cover and especially not once they're like super popular so the book that I chose doesn't have that much red but it's still a red cover and I still think a lot of people have it on their shelves. It's very common and that would be Scythe by Neal Schusterman. You can see the bits of red on it. A lot of people I think have this at least the trilogy or at least Scythe if not the entire trilogy or at least have read Scythe just because it was such a big popular book when it came out a few years ago. I know I haven't and I haven't read the toly yet but I really I've been meaning to I will get there. Eventually it's just so big and scary. So the second prompt Beth has a little mouse decoration on her Christmas tree. While we don't have any mice on our tree I thought of something different that would kind of replace it but still work for the same prompt that she did and so my family Christmas tree the one that is behind me because I am back at my parents house. It's full of very unique and very personalized ornaments as every year my mom gets us ornaments that represent some event or something that happened in the past year of our life so if we joined a sport started learning musical instruments if we were in musical theater in a play or you know anything like that then you're gonna find a representation of it on our tree and so I think that just really any of the life-based ornaments on our tree works for the prompt that Beth chose with her little mouse and that was contemporary. On my first year of going to school when I was in preschool and then I got this one for my high school graduation. So for the book I have chosen for that I chose We Were Liars by E Lockhart and I talked about this book in my last video I chose this one because it is one of the first contemporary novels that I read and I still don't understand because it's got this element of mystery to it it's this girl and her group of friends go like her family goes on vacation and so something happened a few years back on that vacation and she is trying to unravel years later what exactly happened and why her and her friends are always lying about it. So it's one of the first contemporaries that I read and it's very life-based so life-based ornaments or contemporary makes sense right? There's our non-edible red candy cane that we hang on the tree normally we have many more but just this one for us this year. The next one is a candy cane and now we do have candy canes on our tree we used to have more in that past but we do have like one or two of them on our tree this year and the prompt for that one is a reliable book you know like a book that you know it's gonna be straightforward until there's that little part in the end it's got that little curve at the top but everyone knows a candy cane everyone likes the idea of a candy cane even if you don't actually like the taste of a candy cane so this is just a good reliable book with a little bit of a curve at the end which I thought was such an interesting prompt idea and for that one I chose The Miner's Lady by Tracy Peterson I read this last January and it's just a very like reliable like it is a forbidden love romance where you've got a family feud between two families in old old America and of course a girl from one family and a boy from the other family fall in love and oh that's not okay because the family is feuding it's a good reliable Romeo and Juliet retelling in the old Americas and so I thought it was a very candy cane like you know what's gonna happen you understand what's gonna go but you know the ending is slightly different than the rest of the book but like that's okay the next prompt up she had done and then I am also going to keep because we both have these on our tree are these big bulbs with the really pretty design around them so different from the red ones because the red ones are just a plain color but these have a really pretty design and these are some of my favorite ornaments to hang on the tree every year this one is my favorite I got it from my mom while I was living abroad and this one is also a very pretty one that we hang on the tree so the prompt for that one is a pretty big book you know very representation of the ornament and so the book I chose was my copy of the Grimm's fairy tales because this thing is a chunky book but it's absolutely gorgeous on the inside and the outside I love the outside because it has like the woods that are so commonly used in these fairy tales and it's full of like short stories obviously because it's a fairy tales so it's like not that hard to read just like the ornaments are not that hard to look at because they're just beautiful so beautiful the next one she talked about she has a couple of different mushrooms on her tree and I have actually never heard of putting mushrooms on a tree before but I thought that was such an interesting idea but I found that what we hang on our tree here when I think a lot of other people have hung on their tree that have different variations to it just like best mushrooms would be snowflakes I feel like there are a lot of there are quite a few different snowflakes on our tree and I'm sure there are some variation of snowflakes on other people's trees because winter snow it snows here in Michigan so we're why not have a snowflake on our tree to represent that there are a couple of the snowflakes that we have on our tree the first ones from school the second one is just pretty and so the recommendation based off of the snowflakes or a lot of YA books that readers have some variation of and for this I chose two different book series one of them being a throwback for those readers who have been reading for a long time I feel like this is on their shelves and one is a little bit more recent in the past few years as it was so big and I just I always see I saw so many people reading it when it came out so the first one the a little older one is the Mortal Instruments series I don't actually own these books myself but I have read them and I think so many YA readers have at least read them owned them for at least some chunk of time in their life so I feel like it's a pretty safe one and then the most recent one is when I have talked about so much in so many of my videos so I won't spend too much time on it and that's the airfolk trilogy by Holly Black the cruel prince the wicked king and the queen of nothing and yeah every book was huge when it came out right from the start and I've seen so many people talk about it that it's like I'm sure people have read at least the first one if not own all three books for sure that's just that's just how it is I'm sure I'm positive now this next one are these cute little red birds that she has on her tree and my family normally puts up on our tree this year we only have one on there we were trying not to overload the Christmas tree but in recent in past years we have put quite a few red birds we don't hang them they kind of just twist on to the tree so they look like they're perched on top of the tree rather than hanging from it like other regular ornaments and so the prompt for this one is a book that is eye-catching on your shelf because but these little birds were always trying to find them on our tree and I 100% agree with that because we always put our birds a little deeper into the tree like not right out on the edge because we don't want them to fall off so it's always so much fun to see how many birds you can find every day that was always something I liked to do as a young child this is the only bird have on the tree currently this year normally we would have more so they always tend to be one of the one of the ornaments that my eyes try to specifically look for and so what's a book on your shelf that you always try to specifically look for or always stands out to you and for me this is the school of the so much anani and this book always catches my eye because of the color scheme and how busy it is but also like it's not overly busy I love the blue and the purple it's a really big book I don't have the rest of the series yet of course classic classic Laura don't have the series but I do like it a lot I love the imagery of the swans I love the colors and the castles and it's just it's an eye-catching book that I always find myself looking for on my shelf even though it is quite a bit of an older book and I read it forever ago I still love it there the next decoration that Beth had was a bee and we don't have any bees on our trees so I decided to go with some of the children's toys on our tree because as I said earlier so many ornaments are based off of moments in our life when me and my siblings were younger it was mostly based off of toys and things we liked to play with or look at as young children and so I've decided that for that one I completely changed the prompt for that one initially Beth was a bee that represents a series that doesn't match on your shelf and while I think that is a great prompt I just don't have anything similar to it so I decided to go with children's toys and just to recommend a great middle grade this is actually my older brother's little choo choo train from when he was really young he loved playing with trains my favorite middle grade I believe to this day still is the Septimus heaps series the first book is called magic spelled weirdly and that's one thing that drew me to it as a middle grade reader when I was very young um and this is by Angie Sage I own the first second and I believe last book of the series on my kindle even though it's like a seven book long series I love the magic system in this I love the characters in this I love the imagery the books have little illustrations in them along the chapters and so those were a lot of fun so if you like to read middle grade and you have never heard of septimus heap please read it it's definitely a seventh son of the seventh son type thing but it's not solely about the seventh son of the seventh son like there are other characters that are major and have other life events happening that are crucial to the story and then the last prompt on here I am keeping the same as Beth because she is so right a nutcracker is definitely a must-have decoration around Christmas time while we don't have any nutcrackers on our trees we do have them next to our tree kind of right in front of the fireplace a little bit this is my mom's collection she has quite a few of them I have one because every year it was a tradition for us to go to the nutcracker the ballet because we quite enjoy the ballet and for years my mom my aunt and even my cousin would buy a nutcracker every year I did not start partaking this tradition until last year where I bought my first nutcracker and I was so excited to like start my own collection I was like I moved out now I need to have my own nutcracker collection for my own place and then this year you know quarantine and pandemic and all that kind of made the nutcracker not happening so I'm very sad I won't be buying a nutcracker this year but you know see this is my mom's collection of nutcrackers and she has quite a few she hasn't gotten a nutcracker every time we've gone to the ballet but for the past six years she has and these are those nutcrackers pretty sad compared to my one and only nutcracker this is the nutcracker that I got last year at the ballet and I'm very proud of him and hopefully he won't be lonely for long at least I have one and I'm back at my mom's house and she has quite a few and so the problem for this one is a classic because nutcrackers are so classic the ballet is classic like everything about them so the book I chose to recommend for this one is I actually have two books for this one one I think a lot of people have read if you haven't please read it and the other one I haven't really heard people talk about so that's why I'm recommending it the first one is Little Women and I believe a lot of people have read it and then when the movie came out I believe a lot of people either reread it or read it for the first time but if you haven't read it seriously please read Little Women it is such a good book about these four sisters who are all very different from each other each other living in like old Victorian times and them dealing with you know having the life that women did but also having their very strong personalities that they have and it's oh it's so much fun so I have not yet seen the movie but I really want to because I adore Emma Watson 100% but the book first the book is very good and it's obviously by Luisa May Alcott then the second classic book that I want to recommend is Around the World in 80 Days this is a Jules Verne book and I read this in middle school it was like one of the first classics that I read in middle school and I liked it it's literally the book that I read and liked enough to keep reading classics to keep going to we had a classics club in middle school where we just talked about them so like yes I enjoy them and I really enjoyed Around the World in 80 Days I thought it was so much fun and because the nutcracker is so big around the world like the ballet is such a big thing I thought it was very fitting for the idea of the nutcracker yeah those are all the recommendations based off of Christmas tree decorations seriously I urge you once again please go and check out Beth's video out over at her channel Books Nest because her video was just absolutely beautiful and she has like a Christmas tree and then she's got like a fire on her TV in the background it's just such a cozy time and I would definitely just recommending checking out her channel anyway because oh I absolutely adore her videos so feel free to comment down below any books that you have that you think a lot of other people have or that fit the prompts or if you have any unique or really fun ornaments on your trees if you do decorate Christmas trees either for Christmas or New Year's I know a lot of people will decorate trees much like we do for Christmas but more so for New Year's so if you have any fun decorations for those please let me know down below and also recommend a book to go along with them because it's so much fun otherwise give this video a thumbs up feel free to subscribe I release videos every Thursday however yeah this video is not going up on a Thursday it's an extra bonus video but stick around for every video on Thursday that I will release and with that I'm going to wish you guys a happy reading