14 days until Christmas
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Melanie Bennett Jacobson is an avid reader, amateur cook, and champion shopper. She consumes astonishing amounts of chocolate, chick flicks, and romance novels. After meeting her husband online, she is now living happily married in Southern California with her growing family and a series of doomed houseplants. Melanie is a former English teacher and a popular speaker who loves to laugh and make others laugh. In her down time (ha!), she writes romantic comedies for Covenant and maintains her humorous slice-of-life blog.
Connect with Melanie: WEBSITE | BLOG | Twitter | Facebook
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LDSWBR: What Christmas-related activity would you like to do this year that you have never done before?
MELANIE: We have a large regional park near us with a Christmas train. At least that’s the rumor. I haven’t seen it myself, but it’s on my list to take the kids to see it.
LDSWBR: If you could find one book under the tree this year, what would it be?
MELANIE: Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos
LDSWBR: What is your favorite childhood Christmas memory?
MELANIE: Back in the olden days when you used to have to rent your videos from a store and not a red box or envelope, on every major holiday my dad would pile us into the car and we’d spend about an hour wandering the aisles and making our selections. My dad always got an MGM musical and my mom always got some kind of shoot-’em-up action or martial arts film with lots of fighting and very little talking. I know, a little bit of role reversal there. Anyway, I asked her about it years later. Why did she always get the action films? My parents were deaf and she said that since they had to watch the movies with closed captioning, the “talking” movies were like reading a book and she did plenty of that already. And here I just thought she was bloodthirsty . . .
LDSWBR: Thanks, Melanie! Have a great Christmas!
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Book prizes donated by their authors:
- Ribbon of Darkness by Julie Coulter Bellon (new addition to the prize list!)
- Not My Type by Melanie Jacobson
- Cinder & Ella by Melissa Lemon (ebook)
- Pride & Popularity by Jenni James
- The Kissing Tree by Prudence Bice
- Rearview Mirror by Stephanie Black (paperback or Kindle)
- The Next Door Boys by Jolene B. Perry
- Winner’s choice of one of the books in the Sadie Hoffmiller Culinary Mystery Series by Josi S. Kilpack (including Banana Split which will be released in February 2012)
- Seeking Persephone by Sarah M. Eden
- Obsession by Traci Hunter Abramson
- Circle of Secrets by Kimberley Griffiths Little
- Indelible by Lani Woodland and a swag bag!
- Identity by Betsy Love
- The Hainan Incident by D.M. Coffman (autographed copy)
- Count Down to Love by Julie N. Ford
- Geek Girl by Cindy C. Bennett
- The Breakup Artist by Shannen Crane Camp
- Seers by Heather Frost
Don’t forget to comment! Merry Christmas and happy reading!
23 Responses to “Not My Type by Melanie Jacobson – Countdown to Christmas 2011”
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If you count watching “Rudolph” on TV every year as a kid, then that’s about as close as probably had to a movie tradition. :-)
I love Melanie’s books and her blog — which I follow! I also follow her on Facebook.
Love the cover of this book.
We always watch The Christmas Story. Must watch Ralphie shoot his eye a couple of times in December.
Two shows I have to watch are “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “The Muppet Christmas Carol.”
I’d have to say it changes from year to year. Once it was all of the Tim Allen Santa Clause’s, another was White Christmas, so I guess it depends.
You guys have a great line up on this giveaway. They are almost all the books on my “To Read” list. :) Melanie’s is another one on my list. I follow you on twitter and FB.
My teenage years were spent babysitting. My favorite family would always have me over during the holidays and their children and I would stay up late watching Santa Clause: the Movie. I love the memory so much,I still watch it every year! My children ask to watch White Christmas, so that will probably be ‘their movie’
I was able to go on a Christmas train last year with my nieces and nephew and it was great. I think you would have a great time Melanie!. Your books are such fun reads and always keep me laughing. I also really identify with your main femals leads in many ways, different ways of course, but it helps me get into your books and enjoy them that much more. Thanks for sharing your amazing gift.
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I miss roaming the aisles at Blockbuster! You know what else I miss? The smell of that weird foam stuff they used to put in the VHS and Beta movie cases. I don’t know what it was about that stuff, but I always thought it smelled really cool.
I follow Melanie’s blog! :-)
My mom had a tradition of watching a ton of Christmas movies, I can’t remember them all. A few are White Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas, Chipmunk Christmas, Mr. Magoos Christmas Carol, Rudolph, the original Grinch movie, etc. She hated the Christmas story with Ralphie, so I had never seen it until I was an adult.
I just signed up to follow Melanie’s blog.
I won her other book, The List, last time for this contest and had never heard of this author. Boy was I pleasantly surprised, I laughed out loud multiple times and finished it too quickly wanting to read more of her books! I am going to get “Not My Type” after Christmas, unless I win it here!
We watched every animated Christmas movie there was, when I was growing up… But my husband never watched ANY of them. He watched Ernest Saves Christmas and the Muppet’s Christmas Carol, neither of which I’d seen until we got married. Now we mix it up for our kids. So basically every free weekend night is filled with a Christmas movie. :)
I follow both of Melanie’s blogs. And I’d love to win this book. The first chapter made me laugh. :)
I loved “White Christmas” as a kid, and that’s probably still my favorite Christmas movie. But my kids think all the old movies are corny. They’d much rather watch all the Christmas specials on the Hallmark channel.
And I follow Melanie’s blog.
We have a tradition of watching Christmas Vacation (I know it’s not the best type of movie, but it is hilarious) every Thanksgiving weekend. That starts the Christmas season for us. We also enjoy Christmas Story and Charlie Brown’s Christmas as a family. I enjoy DVRing the Hallmark and Lifetime “sappy” Christmas movies and watching them when I can (of course without the kids or husband around to make fun of me crying)!
I follow via Facebook.
I also follow via email.
The last few years we have gone to a movie as a family on Christmas Day. Since Christmas is on Sunday this year, we will be going on Christmas Eve.
Follow e-mail and Facebook.
I LOVE Melanie! She’s my fave! :) We watched The Christmas Box every year when I was growing up. It’s a tear jerker. I haven’t watched it for a couple years, since my kids prefer The Polar Express nowadays.
My husband is so wonderfully long-suffering and watches foofy Hallmark Christmas movies with me on Hulu. I love my husband and I love the foof!
I don’t have a Christmas movie tradition, but our family coincidentally watched “Far and Away” so many times in a row on Thanksgiving that it became a tradition.
PS I subscribe through email and like LDSWBR on Facebook. And I follow Melanie’s blog and like her on facebook.
I loved your story about going to the video store and renting movies!!! Thanks for sharing!!
I am subscribed to LDSWBR through e-mail
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We always talk about what Christmas movies we’ll watch. I love White Christmas. My husband and I both like Elf. This year we watched and enjoyed “The 12 Dogs of Christmas” and “Christmas Story.”
I don’t have a specific movie related tradition. There are movies that I watch every year just because they are my favorites.
After reading this post I because curious how having deaf parents influenced her desire to become a writer.
I also Follow Melanie’s blog and her facebook.