Christmas

[coffee_lover]

What are your favoirite book about Christmas?
What books do you like to read/reread during long winter evenings?

[Cailin]

Mine's painfully obvious ... A Christmas Carol:blush:

[coffee_lover]

by Charles Dickens or by Quentin Blake?

[Cailin]

Dickens

What's your favourite?

[The Comedian]

I like "The Christmas Cat" -- It's a kid's book. But, even though I'm not a kid, I still enjoy reading it.

[kelby_lake]

Christmas Carol and Little Women

[Petya]

I've still to get around to reading A Christmas Carol yet but it's on my list and I'm sure I'll be reading it this winter.

[grace86]

I've never actually read A Christmas Carol! I've watched all the movie adaptations! Nor have I read Little Women, maybe I will pick them up for my trip to see my family for Christmas this year.

One of my favorites is also a children's book. The Night Before Christmas. Brings back peaceful memories as a kid!

[Vintage34]

Most Christmas books or stories have a message or a moral, which is especially good for children, but also a reminder to the rest of us. Three of my favorites:

The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry. How I loved this story of selfless love and sacrifice when I was young! It's still relevant to today's world.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas, by Dr. Suess, is good for all ages. I used to love to read it to my kids.

A Redbird Christmas, by Fannie Flagg. (author of "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe".) This is a wonderful and uplifting story for adults.

[crystalmoonshin]

I, too, am a fan of Dickens' "A Christams Carol" and I do read it every Christmas Eve. It warms the heart and never fails to make me shed some tears.

[Emil Miller]

Dickens was a great writer although his sentimentality is, perhaps, a little too evident in A Christmas Carol.

My own favourite is Christmas Holiday by W.S. Maugham

[LadyWentworth]

Jane Eyre. It isn't a Christmas story, but I read it at Christmastime. In fact, I finished it on Christmas Eve the first time that I ever read it. So, for some reason, that has put me in the mood to read it every Christmas now. In fact, if I watch a film adaptation of the story, I tend to watch it during the holidays. :)

I am also guilty of enjoying "A Christmas Carol" at this time. Yes, and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". :) I also like to read some of the Christmas stories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series.

[Dr. Hill]

The book I most affiliate with Christmas is Crime and Punishment, because my grandmother bought it for me 2 Christmases ago and since I've been in love with it. I can't have read it at Christmas, but I began forthwith and finished it before the New Year.

[amalia1985]

I have no particular favourite Christmas book, but I seem to always find myself with a novel by Henry James during winter.

[Dr. Hill]

May you be so kind as to recommend? I've almost half of "The Return of the Native" completed and Henry James looks attractive.

[amalia1985]

Of course. I think that The Turn of the Screw and The Other House are my favourite ones, when it comes to winter:). I also enjoy reading and re-reading The Golden Bowl, and The Portrait of A Lady , among others.

[Dr. Hill]

Thank you, kindly.

[SpurYourImagina]

My favorites as a child were The Polar Express and Frosty the Snowman book.

[disraelite]

I've still to get around to reading A Christmas Carol yet but it's on my list and I'm sure I'll be reading it this winter.


I've never actually read A Christmas Carol! I've watched all the movie adaptations! Nor have I read Little Women, maybe I will pick them up for my trip to see my family for Christmas this year.

I was embarrassed to admit I'd never read A Christmas Carol so made it my business to read it a couple of years ago. I now make sure I read it every December. A beautiful short read, and much more powerful than all those adaptations. Do yourselves a favour - get out there and pick up a copy! Enjoy!!

[disraelite]

Not actually a Christmas story but The Poteen Maker, a short story by Michael McLaverty is a wonderful, wintry read.

Another seasonal short story I love is Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales, which I think is readily available in complete form on the internet. I love Miss Prothero's line, "Would you like something to read?" - perfectly out of synch.

Happy Christmas reading!

[littlelit]

I love 'A Christmas Carol' (Dickens). I also really like 'Silas Marner' by George Eliot. It is not exactly a Christmas book as far as I remember but it does have this really nice feel to it.