COLORS OF CHRISTMAS by Olivia Newport is a lovely story of love, second chances, and hope. This is not your typical Christmas love story but instead signifies what it means to be alone during the holiday season. A story where the holidays are more about the memories of what has been lost or who is no longer there than a true embrace of the holiday season of joy and happiness.
For many Christmas can be a hard time of the year especially when you have no one around to lean on. In this book, you will follow along has two people in two very different situations are just trying to make it through the holiday and their life by making the best of what life has dealt them. Not everyone sees Christmas has a happy time with lovely decorations and beautiful lights. Newport creates backstories that play well into the current story adding more depth and drama. I feel that this helps you to understand the overall story better since you only see a small snapshot of two lives at two extremely different stages of life.
COLORS OF CHRISTMAS really has something for everyone. While it is not your traditional holiday read, it is a different view of the season through the eyes of someone who struggles to find their way and enjoy the season. I feel COLORS OF CHRISTMAS is a book that many people can relate to or they may know someone who is finding the season a hard one to embrace. Overall, a good read for anyone who is looking for a different kind of winter read.
Christmas in Blue
In the wake of a personal loss deeper than anyone
realizes, Angela plans to bypass as much of the season as
possible and get through her duties as the church
organist by going on autopilot. Instead, she finds
herself in charge of the townβs celebration. After a
mysterious young man arrives, townspeople suspect he is
the reason that one set of plans after another
disintegrate until little is left of their traditions.
Yet Angela warms to Gabe because she suspects they share
a secretβhis real reason for coming to town. Even when
all they have to work with is a garish supply of blue
Christmas decorations, Gabe helps Angela discover the
hidden beauty of hope.
Christmas in Gold
After eighty years, change is nothing new for Astrid. By
the time she was twenty, she survived the destructive
Nazi regime, caring for her family under brutal
circumstances, moving to America, and losing her husband.
At forty she was widowed again and left to build a new
life with her children. Now, when she faces a move into
an assisted living community and meets a young woman on
the brink of despair, she resolves to stir up hope
through tragedy one more time.
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