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Christmas Books

I collect Christmas books all year, and in November I start reading them to help wake up the Christmas spirit.  Here is what I have read so far this year. This book pokes fun at those people who may get a little carried away with Christmas decorations.  It is fiction, of course, because no one really does that.  Or, do they?  Hmmmm...  Sweet book about struggles we all have, and how they seem to grow larger around the holidays.  I love stories where everything gets better before the story ends.  Highly recommend. This is a fun book but not a page turner.  Forty years earlier, five couples were married by a pastor who turned out to be something else entirely.  Their marriages were not legal, and their state doesn't recognize common law marriages.  You will have to read the book to see what happens. Some Christmas stories by Louisa May Alcott, taken from her books. It is a rare thing when a book makes me ...

Christmas Books

I love reading Christmas books, and buy them all during the year at my favorite store, Loaves and Fishes, where paperbacks are a quarter and hard covers are fifty cents. I start reading them in early November.  I still have a couple left on my "to be read" stack, but I have managed to read a few. The Twelve Deaths of Christmas is a short mystery which reminded me of the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie.  There is a murderer loose in a London neighborhood who claims a victim every day as Christmas approaches. It was a little gruesome in places, but a fun read. Christmas Duty is a compilation of four romance novellas set in the military at Christmas time. I am not a fan of romance books and rarely read them, so this one was a little mushy for me. The Christmas Pearl was just delightful and the most surprising.  I have read several of Dorothea Benton Frank's beach books, and love her storytelling skills. The main character is a 93 year old who is try...