Today I've been researching books that are either set in the darkest month of the year or that have Christmas as a theme or setting.
I'm trying to amass as many titles as I can for our all-out December Reading Blast!
Please share your favorite titles so that we can all suggest books to each other and borrow from libraries and order from bookstores!
I will add the titles you suggest to my next post.
Here are some of the books I haven't read that I'd like to read in December. (Have you read one or more of them?)
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks (3-star reviews, mostly)
A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (3-4 star reviews, mostly)
A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor (high marks)
The Tenth of December--a short story in the collection of the same title by George Saunders.
A Christmas Hope by Anne Perry (2013). This one is getting 5-star reviews. As you are probably aware, her Christmas mysteries are set during the Victorian era. This one's synopsis got me very interested.
What I Have Read So Far:
Starry Night (2013) by Debbie Macomber. My first Macomber read! Gulp. This is a book that I reserved for "bedtime," when my mind is extremely dull and limited. Reading a book like this late at night enables me to remember the limited number of details about characters and plot. Late at night is my witless time of day. Yet the lack of consistency in the characterization of the male lead disturbed me. But, what me, worry? At 11pm at night? No way.
Now reading another Christmas cozy mystery, before bed only!: Murder of a Stacked Librarian: A Scumble River Mystery by Denise Swanson (2013). Mildly entertaining as only a cozy can be. A comfort late at night for the exhausted and witless reader. Here, here!
I love A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote!
ReplyDeleteOh, yes! I thoroughly ransacked my Christmas books collection, and I'm surprised I don't have the story anywhere. So I ordered the 50th anniversary edition of the picture book with illustrations by Beth Peck. This edition received a starred review in School Library Journal in 2006. Can't wait to get it in the house!
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