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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2017 3:30:47 GMT
I started a tradition last year of reading a Sherlock Holmes story each Christmas.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 2, 2018 3:10:43 GMT
@nxnwrocks Well, let’s see… N.B.: I’m taking the OP to refer to the whole Christmas season, which for me includes both the buildup and, indeed, the Twelve Days (Christmastide). I usually read Philip Van Doren Stern’s “The Greatest Gift,” a lovely short story that inspired Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. Very good, very kind-hearted (without mawkishness), and very interesting as the story on which the movie is based. I recommend it—and it was recently released in a beautiful edition, the one I own. For some reason that even I cannot fathom, I also usually read Ellery Queen’s Christmas-set The Finishing Stroke, a detective-story with one of the best set-ups one can think of—matched, unfortunately, by one of the worst solutions (depending on one’s knowledge of the Phoenician alphabet, heaven help us!). Well… In my defense, it’s a great, very Christmassy set-up, far better than a more famous Christmas-set mystery, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot’s Christmas. But that solution! The best Christmas-set detective-story I know, by the way, is John Dickson Carr’s “Blind Man’s Hood.” A marvellous amalgamation of the wintry ghost story and the mystery—and one of the few, but notable, Carrs to involve the genuinely supernatural. Ghost stories… I used to read Russell Kirk’s delightfully chilling “The Peculiar Demesne of Archvicar Gerontion” near Christmas; I didn’t take the collection, Ancestral Shadows, out of the library in time this year, but there are a few Christmas-set “wintry tales” in it. Fine book by one of my favorite authors and political theorists. (By the way, in that story Kirk introduced me to the great old Christmas games played throughout the Yuletide: Smee, Snapdragon, etc.) I discovered Edith Wharton’s “The Triumph of Night” this year—another one of the best Christmas ghost stories I’ve read. Highly recommended. (By the way, does anyone know if M.R. James wrote a Christmas ghost story? I should already know this.) Of course Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Clement Clarke Moore’s ( or Henry Livingston Jr.’s?) “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” and O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.” A few that I do not read every year but that are nonetheless recommended: Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory and Sir Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather. I don’t read Dickens’s A Christmas Carol every year (though I do watch at least one of the adaptations), but I have read it and re-read it from time to time around Christmas. A children’s picture book, with beautiful illustrations, that I’ll recommend as well: Marc McCutcheon and Kate Kiesler’s Grandfather’s Christmas Camp. OK, going outside the range of the OP, so I’ll stop, but these are some favorites of mine.
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 4, 2018 6:01:29 GMT
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 4, 2018 16:23:21 GMT
I've got an illustrated edition of Tolkien's Letters From Father Christmas. Tolkien writing as Santa Claus to his grandchildren... need I say more.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jan 4, 2018 18:08:51 GMT
Instruction manuals
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Post by vegalyra on Dec 15, 2019 15:25:58 GMT
The original Hardy Boys "The Mystery of Cabin Island" No. 8 in the series. It's not exactly Christmas but it involves plenty of snow and a cabin in the woods. Great story.
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Post by rogerthat on Dec 15, 2019 16:37:35 GMT
'Salem's Lot
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Dec 15, 2019 17:06:16 GMT
No i don`t
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Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 15, 2019 17:18:14 GMT
The jokes from Christmas crackers. That's all!
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Dec 15, 2019 23:19:00 GMT
Little Women
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Dec 19, 2019 17:15:56 GMT
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Post by louise on Dec 22, 2019 10:55:34 GMT
I reread Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie most Christmases. Christmas with the Savages by Mary Clive is another frequent Christmas reread. And I always reread A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas, The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter, The Mousehole Cat by Antonia Barber, and I Saw Three Ships by Elizabeth Goudge.
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