Thursday, December 25, 2025

Happy Holidays!

Christmas Tree from books. All the rage, apparently.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Jungle Red! πŸŽ„✨

During this holiday season, we’re sending you warm wishes wrapped in gratitude. Thank you for popping in to spend part of your day with us—for reading, commenting, recommending books, welcoming our visitors, and being the kind of community that makes stories matter even more.

Whether today finds you surrounded by family, sneaking a quiet moment with a book, or enjoying a peaceful day to yourself while enjoying a great read, we hope it brings comfort, joy, and a little sparkle. We’re endlessly grateful for your support, your enthusiasm, and your love of stories in all their cozy, thrilling, and heartfelt forms.

May your coffee or tea stay hot, your books be unputdownable, and your new year be filled with many wonderful stories.

With love and holiday cheer,
The Jungle Red Writers ❤️πŸ“š

P.S. Does anyone want to attempt to make a Christmas tree from books? I can only imagine what my 5 cats would do to it. Eep!

24 comments:

  1. Joyeux NΓΆel, everyone!

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  2. Wishing everyone all the joys and blessings of the season . . . Merry Christmas!

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  3. Wishing you all a season filled with love and joy. Merry Christmas and a very healthy and happy New Year!

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  4. Merry Christmas Everyone! πŸŽ„

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  5. Merry Christmas to all the Reds and Readers. Wishing you a Blessed Christmas Season filled with peace, love and joy!
    Dianne Mahoney

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  6. I’m enjoying a raspberry pink sunrise outside my bedroom window and thinking luckily we are all to have this beautiful world… Merry Christmas, praying for a peaceful new year.

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  7. Merry Christmas everyone !

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  8. Merry Christmas! I'm so grateful for this community. We are turning towards the light in the physical world, may it be so in our human systems as well.

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  9. The merriest of Christmases - or a quiet day off, depending! (And thank you all for your support yesterday after my too-honest outpouring. All is well with my boy and his wife - we had a sweet porch visit exchanging gifts yesterday and will have a pandemic-style zoom opening session later today.)

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    1. That's a relief. I was thinking about you last night, and wondering how you were doing. There is a lot of sickness, including Covid, going around right now. It's probably wise for the expectant mom to be careful.

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  10. I would love to attempt a Book Tree, but would it stay that way forever, would the books ever go back on the shelves, and wouldn’t it be a book on the bottom level you just had to have? πŸŽ„πŸ˜†
    Merry Christmas to all of you, and thank you for this blog and this community! May 2026 bring us many new books and authors to read, the end of anyone’s writer’s block, and only good craziness and mysteries! Cheers πŸ₯‚

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  11. Happy Holidays to everyone. I might try a mini, table-top version of one of these next year. It’s cute but I don’t have the wherewithal to do a floor-model version.

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  12. Blessings of the season to one and all with special thanks for this wonderful community! -- Victoria

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  13. Merry Christmas, Hanukkah (however you spell it), Kwanzaa, Eid, Winter Solstice, Hogswatch, Feast Day of Anastasia of Sirmium, Tulsi Puljan Diwas, Quaid-e-Azam's Day, Irish McCalla Birthday, or whatever else you may individually or jointly celebrate! May the coming year bring you all peace, joy, comfort, royalties, ever-expanding sales, and the unbounded adulation of millions and millions of gibbering mystery fans worldwide.

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  14. We have a tiny bit of snow—and SO MUCH love for you all!

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  15. Ohhhh ho ho ho that was me! We have a tiny bit of snow—and SO MUCH love for you all!

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  16. To all the female Santas who are tired this morning, I salute you. And hope your efforts are appreciated, and reciprocated.

    Merry, happy to you all!

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  17. Merry Christmas to all! Wishing you peace of heart now and in the coming year!

    As for the book tower? Hahahahahaha...five cats here, too, one of which is currently lying across my arm as I attempt to type this!

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  18. Jenn I just read your Substack "Happy Holiday Readers" dated today. What a poignant, beautiful and hilarious remembrance of a Christmas gone wrong, but right in the years gone by.

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    1. https://jennmckinlay.substack.com/p/happy-holidays-readers

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  19. Merry Christmas! I don't think I have the patience to make a book tree. Although I think Koda would leave it alone. He doesn't much care about anything inedible. LOL

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