Books, Fiction

Christmas Camp by Karen Schaler

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Christmas Camp by Karen Schaler | Green Skirt (!!!) | Body Suit (A Steal!) | Shoes | Necklace

Worth A Read Meh
Length 354
Quick Review Haley’s Christmas spirit is less than jolly when her boss sends her to Christmas camp in order to do research for a project. The owner’s attractive son makes it easier and harder to concentrate on her job.

Christmas Camp by Karen Schaler hits all the Hallmark moments we have come to expect from feel-good Christmas stories. If you have a Netflix account, you’re probably familiar with her script from The Christmas Prince, which was a huge hit last year.

Haley is a marketing executive. Her company needs to make a pitch for a Christmas loving toy company. Haley wants to make the pitch more than anything to make partner, but she doesn’t have much of the Christmas spirit. Her boss sends her to Christmas Camp to find her own spirit to help her company. She joins a group of people who are there for many different reasons. The owner’s son is attractive and distracts Haley from completely her job.

To be completely honest, I really did not like Haley. Not for the reason we’re supposed to not like her. I didn’t like her because she just wasn’t terribly likable. Her ambition was about the only thing I could actually relate to.  

I didn’t hate the storyline in Christmas Camp. I definitely did not love the storytelling. It reads a lot more like a script than a novel. It makes sense consider Schaler’s background as a screenwriter. There is a lot of telling who there characters are without showing. It’s almost like a “Hi. I’m Haley. I’m a workaholic, but I’m also very nice.” The dialogue is clunky and feels a little bit like I’m being spoon fed the novel. It over simplifies everything.

I think Christmas Camp is a nice novel for the season. If you’re looking for a complex look into human interaction, this is not that. It is all the things a Hallmark movie is but in novel form.

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Memorable Quotes
“”There’s always something about Christmas that makes you feel like a kid again.””

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Title: Christmas Camp
Author: Karen Schaler
Publisher: William Morrow (HarperCollins)
Copyright: 2018
ISBN: 9780062883698

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Books, Reading Lists

Christmas Reading List

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A Christmas Treasury | Christmas Camp | Last Christmas in Paris |Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery | One Day in December | A Christmas Revelation | Alaskan Holiday | The Nutcracker | An Irish Country Christmas | Sweater (this is so soft and cozy)

Merry Christmas! Or Happy Holidays to all my non-Christmassers.

I have a whole bunch of books I’m going to read this month. I’m being optimistic because eleven books in 22 days is insane. Reading a new book every other day. I’m a Christmas nut, so I’m only reading Christmas related novels this month. Several are new releases this year. Here we go!

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Alaskan Holiday
by Debbie Macomber
I read this already, and it was awful. Feel free to read my review here.

One Day in December
by Josie Silver
A winter story about love in London. This month, it is a Book of the Month book and chosen by Reese Witherspoon for her book club.

The Nutcracker
by Alexander Dumas
The classic Christmas story brought to the stage throughout the world in ballet form.

A Christmas Revelation
by Anne Perry
I’m branching out to read a mystery, but not too much because it’s still a Christmas book!

Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery
by Jenny Colgan
I don’t know anything about this book, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Colgan in the past.

An Irish Country Christmas
by Patrick Taylor
Enter the fictional Irish town of Ballybucklebo for a Christmas season full of adventure with familiar characters.

Mutts and Mistletoe
by Natalie Cox
I don’t know anything about this, but there are puppies on the cover.

Last Christmas in Paris
by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
I’m looking forward to reading a historical fiction novel about Christmas in Paris.

The Adults
by Caroline Hulse
A novel about Christmas and family drama… It seems appropriate. The two tend to go together.

Christmas Camp
by Karen Schaler
I hear this is being turned into a TV movie.

A Christmas Treasury
This is an anthology of some of the greatest Christmas stories. If you buy one book this Christmas. I HIGHLY suggest this one!!!