The Book Club will be reading an additional book during the Christmas holidays. If you would like to take part, please nominate your suggestions here by November 25th.
A search on Christmas fiction returned these titles on Amazon.
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Last edited by Scheherazade; 11-17-2005 at 11:29 AM.
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I wasn't aware that Dickens wrote other Christmas tales. I'd like to nominate The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth. I'll also nominate Skipping Christmas because I thought it was real cute. I'd heard the movie (Chirstmas with the Kranks?) was stupid so I didn't see it.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
Oh, I'll still suggest Gawain and the Green Knight.
By the way Sher, your link didn't work for me.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
It might be because it is a search link. If the link doesn't work, you can try searching for 'Christmas' under fiction on amazon.
I would like to nominate the book Night wanted, Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, in the hope that she will be back with us by the time we read these books!
Shea> Could you choose one book to nominate please? To give everyone a chance, we have a 'one nomination per member' rule.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Oh, sorry, new to this.
Dickens or Gawain...well, lets go for Dickens as I've never read The Chimes (or the other for that matter).
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
Although it's a children's book, I've always liked "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" by Dr. Seuss. I can identify with the main character in spite of the fact that he turned into a goodnik at the end.
Last edited by starrwriter; 11-18-2005 at 04:59 PM.
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Last edited by Nightshade; 11-18-2005 at 08:51 AM.
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Originally Posted by starrwriter
Welcome back Nightshade!!
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
My favorite Christmas book is a childrens book as well called the Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who matter don't mind, and those that mind, don't matter." -Dr. Seuss
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Eek! You can't mean the novel by John Grisham. I HATE Grisham so much I'd rather stick a fork in my eye than read another one of his books.
I've heard about a movie called "Skipping Christmas" coming out soon with Tim Allen and a very old-looking Jamie Lee Curtis, but there seems to be some controversy over the title. The studio says they didn't base it on Grisham's book and may have to retitle the film "Christmas With The Kranks."
err I thought that was out last year?
and got to admit doesnt sound very grishamish to me which reminds me what is so awful anyway I like some of his books cant think of on off the top of my head but still. Next youll be saying you dont like Dick francis sheesh
( just so I dont get Scher-ed or logos-ed This is a joke/ me funning and is in no way a personal remark)
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Never heard of him -- thank God, if he writes anything like Grisham. The mind can only bear so many bad writers.
ah racing thrillers never heard of ahI think might explain my first grown up book was Colin forbes the Sisterhood when I was 10 and then I tore through all th best sellers Grisham, clive cussler Jack Higgins Dick francis John Fracolmn when he showed up by the time I was 11-12 when I discover classics in there original form and so Im naturally protective of these authors even though I equivlate them to my teen fiction.
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What about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?
I want to re-read it...
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Saw the movie. Uuurrruuup!
*sound of me blowing chunks*
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