A Christmas tag inspired by the song. It comes from Lizzie Loves Books, and I was tagged by Sifa Elizabeth. I tag Leslie and anyone else who would like to participate!

A Partridge in a Pear Tree

A Favourite Stand-Alone Book

Phantastes by George MacDonald is a book I’ll just flip open and read.

Two Turtle Doves

Fictional OTP/Favorite Ship

I’m not sure I fully understand this one, but Aed and Ninian are two characters I really felt belonged together, and whose relationship I rooted for. Granted, I saw it in more of a platonic light ….

Three French Hens

Favorite Trilogy

The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey. This one might also qualify for my favourite book ending: I loved the endings for each of these! They were all so perfect! But they’re perfect endings as a trilogy, too, the way the themes and elements in each ending play on and contrast with the others!

Four Calling Birds

Favorite Fictional Beast/Creature

Dragons! I know they are all over the place in fantasy, but I fell in love with them (the oldest picture I drew and still have is a child’s drawing of two dragons circling a volcano), and I never get tired of them. They never get old, and there are so many kinds!

Five Golden Rings

Show Five Golden Books

I don’t seem to have a whole lot of golden-themed covers, but here goes.

Six Geese a’Laying

Rotten Egg; least favorite book

I won’t say this is my least favorite book: that’s not something I spend a lot of time thinking about, and if I knew which one it was, it almost certainly wouldn’t be this one, by whichever measure I chose to measure that by. But this is a case where I really enjoyed book one (We Hunt the Flame) and then book two, We Free the Stars, just … there were a number of ways it wasn’t that great. So it felt like cracking a rotten egg. A real disappointment.

Seven Swans a’Swimming

Show a Book with Water on the Cover

Look! There’s so much water in this cover! It looks like a perfect place for swans to swim.

It might not be, though.

Eight Maids a’Milking

Fictional Food You Do Wish You Could Taste

Hmm. I was thinking about picking Breaker or one of the Outlaw Mages books since I bet Blaise bakes some delicious goodies. But I already show-cased one of those for “Five Golden Rings.” So … maybe Dust of a Moth’s Wing? I’m pretty sure there was at least something in either Dust or one of the later ones I’d be interested in trying. A lot of somethings probably. This series is very heavy on descriptions that are artfully done so they’re quite enriching, and foods and drinks are among the many things described!

Nine Ladies Dancing

Favorite Dance between Two Characters

I’m going to go with Persuader by Amy Campbell. Because I just can’t remember many dances that’ve stood out to me, that I’ve even noticed, and I do remember sort of an awkward dance in this one.

Ten Lords a’Leaping

Favorite Book-to-Movie Adaptation

I will be passing on this one, since I do not watch movies!

Eleven Pipers Piping

Favorite Book-to-Movie Soundtrack

I will be passing on this again for much the same reason!

Twelve Drummers Drumming

It’s the end of the song; a favorite book ending

It’s hard to say what my favorite book ending is. I decided to interpret this one to mean “an ending that instantly made you want to read the rest of the book.” And that recently happened with The Blood of a Dragon by Jack Adkins! That last chapter … it made me interested, that is for sure.