Even though Christmas will have come and gone by the time this article appears, here are a few suggestions for some Christmas reading to finish out the holidays.

Tis the Season by Lorna Landvik (Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons) is a good book to curl up with by the fire while sipping cocoa. The entire story is written as a series of emails, articles, letters, notes and recordings starring heiress Caroline Dixon. Not unlike Paris Hilton, "Caro’s" hard-partying, alcohol-fueled lifestyle is food for the celebrity obsessed tabloids.

After a particularly wild bender, Caro finally decides to check-in, dry out and get some help. This drives the tabloid writers insane (one in particular referred to as Buzz) because they can’t find her to report on her antics.

As Caro goes through her twelve-step program she reaches out to two people from her past who years ago brought meaning to her life….Astrid Brevald, her Norwegian nanny from her teenage years, and Cyril Dale, a cowboy and owner of a dude ranch where Caro spent some time during her tough childhood. As Caro reconnects through emails with these blasts from the past, their stories unfold and the reader is treated to a message of forgiveness, hope and charity.

If a fun-filled story of romance and laughter is what’s in order than Christmas Letters by Debbie Macomber is the book for you.

Katherine O’Connor, KO to her friends, has found a way to make extra money at Christmas by writing Christmas letters for people. She uses her creativity to make their lives sound a little more exciting or humorous on paper than they really are.

Dr. Wynn Jeffries is a renowned psychologist who has made a huge success for himself with his best selling book touting the ways of the "Free Child" where he talks about "burying Santa under the sleigh."

KO and Wynn are at such opposite poles of the spectrum over their feelings about the holidays that it is a given these two will get together in the end. How this all takes place makes for a humorous, fun story. KO’s eccentric neighbor has decided that she can read the future in such things as her kitty litter box and her morning bowl of cereal. She has seen Wynn and KO together in her readings and keeps trying to set them up. Add in Wynn’s "reformed" hippie father, Max, and KO’s sister who is raising her two toddlers according to Wynn’s theories in his book and the end result is a funny, cute, light holiday story.

Of course, in your holiday reading, make sure not to pass up the greatest Christmas story of all, as found in the book of Luke, chapter 2… as awesome and meaningful a passage today as it was all those years ago!

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