Hi everyone!
I am no longer going to call this Top Ten Tuesday because I haven't participated in that blog hop for a while. I will, however, continue to share with you my monthly lists of movies watched and books finished.
MOVIES
Letterboxd allows for half star ratings for movies, but I'm sticking to whole instead of sliced mushrooms. The heart indicates when the movie had the "it" factor, that something special that makes it a favorite of mine. It's probably one I would re-watch. It does not have to earn five mushrooms in order to earn a heart. There could be plot holes, etc., but if it was still immensely enjoyable, it earned a heart.
The number on the left is the date in July when I watched the movie. Most of the time, I watch half a movie in the morning while having breakfast and the second half in the afternoon while having lunch. Hallmark movies, which are mostly what I watch, are all less than 90 minutes long without commercials, so via DVR, I can easily watch one per day most days.
All except one of these are Christmas movies. I fully embraced Christmas in July!
1 Falling Like Snowflakes (2024)🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
2 Holiday Road (2023)🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
3 Planes, Trains, and Christmas Trees (2022)🍄🍄🍄
5 Cross Country Christmas (2020) 🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
7 The Santa Clause 2 (2002) 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
8 Three Wise Men and a Baby (2023) 🍄🍄🍄🍄
9 Crown for Christmas (2015) 🍄🍄🍄🍄
10 Hitched for the Holidays (2012)🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
12 The Spirit of Christmas (2015) 🍄🍄🍄
12 Cranberry Christmas (2020) 🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
14 Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Tale of Three Letters (2024) 🍄🍄🍄
15 Rescuing Christmas (2023)🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
16 A Very Merry Mix-Up (2014)🍄🍄
18 Where Are You, Christmas? (2021) 🍄🍄🍄🍄
21 The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause 🍄🍄🍄🍄
22 A Very Vermont Christmas 🍄🍄
23 Operation Nutcracker 🍄🍄🍄
24 Ice Palace Romance 🍄🍄🍄
25 Rescuing Christmas 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄💖
26 Christmas in Toyland 🍄🍄🍄🍄
Non-Hallmark Movies:
Planes, Trains, and Christmas Trees (Lifetime)
The Santa Clause 2 (Streaming on Disney+)
The Spirit of Christmas (Lifetime, Hoopla, YouTube)
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (Streaming on Disney+)
Favorite Movies:
The Santa Clause 2
Hitched for the Holidays
Rescuing Christmas
A World Record Christmas (click title for my review)
Non-Christmas Movie
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Tale of Three Letters
Overall, I love this series of movies. However, this latest installment is my least favorite. This is the problem when you have a romantic storyline (or two) in the mystery movies. At a certain point, there's only so much you can do that's worth watching. Otherwise, those storylines and the conflicts feel forced. I think if they just focus on the mysteries (which are not usually murders in this series), it could be great. I would love for this to go back to the one hour episodes it used to be, but I doubt that will happen.
Extended Cut Notes
Three Wise Men and a Baby was the extend cut, which aired for the first time on the Hallmark Channel this July. The original aired on the Hallmark Channel last year. I liked them both equally, and honestly I couldn't tell which scenes were added in for the extended cut, which was about 15 extra minutes.
I watched Rescuing Christmas twice this July. This movie premiered on the Hallmark Movies App last year and aired on the Hallmark Channel this July for the first time. I watched the regular version, then watched the extended cut on the streaming app. While both were immensely enjoyable and worthy of five stars, I highly recommend watching it on the app if you can. The 15 extra minutes we get is worth it!
If you don't want to subscribe to Hallmark Movies Now (like me), you can check and see if Hoopla has the Hallmark Movies Now Bingepass through your local library. If so, you can borrow the bingepass for 7 days at a time and watch Hallmark Movies Now for free...and you can borrow it as many times as your heart desires as long as you're within your monthly Hoopla limit. The bingepass counts as one borrow (unless you borrow it again).
BOOKS
I don't give hearts for books like I do for movies because I rarely re-read books. When I do, it's usually because I haven't reviewed it yet and I need to refresh my memory before I do or because it's part of a book club and I need to refresh my memory for that reason. Otherwise, there are too many books that I want to read and it would take too much time to re-read them. Also, many of them are part of a series, of which I have so much catching up to do.
Here's what I read and listened to in July. Reviews are linked to the titles. Some are full reviews, while others are brief ones on my Sunday Posts.
📱 = e-book
🎧 = audiobook
📖 = physical book
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With, once again, all four and five star books, it was a great month of reading and listening! I started with a summery book around the 4th of July, then dove right into Christmas in July. I think I will continue this theme next July. It was a fun way to beat the heat!
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