Winter Wonderland (Laura Osnes and Aaron Tveit)

One Royal Holiday was a cute movie. While I do enjoy Hallmark movies, I’m not a big lover of their standard royalty trope ones, but this one veered off the standard path enough to make it interesting to me. I suppose that holds true for all their movies for me, I tend to like the non-standard formula ones better than the “more of the same” movies. However, we’re not talking about all Hallmark movies today. We’re just talking about this one in passing since it is the music video choice for today.

Now, why would I pick a Christmas song in April? No, it is not because snow has fallen in some places last week. Nor is it because we are one day less than eight months away from Christmas. 😀 It is because I have a book on sale (it’s on for 99cents) and wanted to feature it today in this post.

And I picked this particular video because it is Hallmark, and the story I have a few lines from today is written in Hallmark-Christmas-movie style. It has a sweet romance, a hero and heroine who slowly come to love each other, Christmas activities such as family traditions and shopping, and a couple of sisters who meddle in their sibling’s love lives.

Have you read it yet? If not, now’s a great time to pick up a copy.

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Have a lovely Monday! See you on Wednesday for some visual story inspiration.

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Leenie Brown

Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).

4 thoughts on “Winter Wonderland (Laura Osnes and Aaron Tveit)”

  1. With that smile-inducing little snippet above I think I’m ready for a Hallmark-ish story like Christmas in Gracechurch Street. I’ve had the book in my TBR for a while now but had closeted it in my Christmas book shelf. I know I’m going to like it, though.

    Cute video. I’m not a fan of Hallmark movies. I’m not a Scrooge either, more like a hermit. It’s just that like you said, they are too formulaic. But for me they are just too sugary, predictable and unrealistic. What I do like about them occasionally, is that a lot of new actors and actresses get their start in films like those and it’s fun to watch their progress. But I suppose you can say that about any internet series or movies. I hardly watch any TV at all. If I did want to catch a movie it would be because I’d heard about it from the limited amount of social media I am exposed to, and will usually be a period piece. Have you seen The Dig? We really liked it a lot, great story and acting. Based on a true story.

    Happy Monday, and I hope the rest of the week goes smoothly for you.

    1. Happy Monday to you as well, Michelle!

      I have not watched that movie. I hadn’t even heard of it (probably because I live under a writing rock LOL) and when I looked it up just now, it says it is a Netflix movie. Well, Netflix was a budgetary cut earlier during the pandemic. I kept the subscription to the channel on Prime Video that has lots of Hallmark style movies instead of keeping Netflix. LOL It’s my guilty pleasure.

      Hallmark style movies are pretty much safe for me. I have to be very careful what I watch because my imagination can really expand upon and twist things when I’m sleeping. I’ve always struggled with that, but it seems to have gotten worse the more time I spend writing. 🙂

      I hope you enjoy Darcy and Lizzy’s story when you get to read it.

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