Christmas shake-up Q&A:
What is the Christmas shake-up Q&A? Basically, it is a little game I devised where participants mix things from different books to create a festive situation. So clothes from three books to make a party outfit or objects from one book gifted to a character from another.
Today’s answers come from Cora from Tea Party Princess.
Cora is one of those lovely people who cheers everyone on. She’s also a brilliant person to consult on creative projects – from writing to blogging, her advice always improves my work.
I adore Cora’s blog. It mixes all things bookish with lifestyle content, something which I think book bloggers generally could be more open to. This Christmas, she has written fantasy shopping lists and to-do posts and book and film reviews.
Thanks to Cora for your time.
Gift an object from book to a character from another and explain why.
I would give Cassandra from I Capture the Castle a One Line a Day five year journal, so that every day she could write something new and watch how she changes from year to year.
You’re hosting a Christmas party – pick your fictional guests and explain why you put them together.
I’d keep it intimate, inviting only a few, and we’d drink cocktails and just talk about anything and everything. I think they’d all have some stories and despite being so different, and from different times and worlds, I think they’d get on famously.
Abi from Gilded Cage by Vic James
Hadley from Fashionistas by Sarra Manning
Daisy from Royals by Rachel Hawkins
Mary from Following Ophelia by Sophia Bennett
Sasha from Floored
If you could try a Christmas tradition from any story, what would it be?
While not a tradition, I’d love to try Kayla’s Christmas when she first visits Snow Crystal in Sleigh Bells In The Snow by Sarah Morgan. Staying in a cabin in the woods, with a hot tub on deck and starry skies above? It sounds heavenly.
Pick the setting from one book and a celebration from another. Why would you host that celebration in that setting?
I’d take the private club from Royals by Rachel Hawkins, and bring the characters from The Fallen Children by David Owen there. Mostly because they deserve a freaking break, somewhere to be themselves and not be afraid of what other people would do to them.
If you could wish for resolutions from three books for 2019, what would they be?
I can’t think of resolutions from books, but these are my three inspired by books:
- Be there when people need it, inspired by Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
- Learn more about dinosaurs, inspired by The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson
- Speak out against sexism, inspired by The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven
Make up a Christmas ball outfit with clothes and accessories from different books.
Sorrow’s dress from A State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury, Lexi’s shoes from Clean by Juno Dawson, Eelyn’s hair style from Sky In The Deep by Adrienne Young, Feyre’s crown from A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maa. I would be a dressed like a princess for a day.
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