Ten Movies to Get You in the Christmas Spirit

Top 10 Tuesday is a post hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week's topic is Top Ten Movies to Get You in the Holiday Spirit.

1. Harry Potter - I love watching HP during the Christmas season.
2. The Lord of the Rings - Epic fantasy I guess. Even though there's nothing that says "Christmas" in these movies, every year I gravitate toward these movies.
3. The Chronicles of Narnia - The same for the previous point can be said for this series.
4. Home Alone - This is THE Christmas movie of my generation.
5. The Santa Clause - As a kid I remember thinking that this movie was exactly what I expected the North Pole to be like.
6. The Holiday - One of my favorite adult Christmas movies.
7. The Polar Express - Got to throw in a cartoon movie, right?
8. Four Christmases - I love Vince Vaughn.
9. Beauty and the Beast - Do you ever have to have a reason to watch Beauty and the Beast?
10. Mr. Bean - The original show not the movies. Hilarious!

I'm not into your typical Christmas movies like It's a Wonderful Life, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, Frosty the Snowman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. But I find that the ones I listed are the ones I come back to every year. What movies get you into the Christmas spirit? Let me know!

Top Ten Book Villains

Top 10 Tuesday is a post hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week's topic is Top Ten Villains.

This post is all about those characters we love to hate. I had to cull through some of the books and series where the enemy was a group of people or the government so that I could choose the books that truly had individual characters as villains.

1. Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter by JK Rowling
2. Queen Levana from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
3. Jackal & Octavia from Red Rising by Pierce Brown
4. Cersei Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin
5. Sebastian from The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
6. Jonathan from The Breathing Series by Rebecca Donovan (not your typical villain, but man I hated that guy!)
7. Billy Dent from Jasper Dent by Barry Lyga
8. President Snow from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
9. The Darkling from The Grisha by Leigh Bardugo (note, I still haven't finished Ruin and Rising)
10. Sauron from The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien

There were so many villains to choose from. The hardest part was limiting myself and not including groups of people. Who made your list of top villains? Let me know!