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other bloggers who share their lists here.
This week, our topic is a Freebie.
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Because of Non-Fiction November, I didn't do any TTT last month, and since Christmas is close, I thought I'll do a list of books with an appropriate theme.
Dickens, Charles "A Christmas Carol" - 1843
Elwell Hunt, Angela "The Tale of Three Trees" - 1989
Grisham, John "Skipping Christmas: A Novel" - 2001
Ingalls Wilder, Laura "Little House Books" - 1932-71
Lagerlöf, Selma "Sancta Lucia. Weihnachtliche Geschichten" [Christmas Stories] (S: Kristuslegender) - 1893-1917
Lamb, Wally "Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story" - 2009
Mann, Thomas "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family" (GE: Buddenbrooks) - 1901
Robinson, Barbara "The Best Christmas Pageant" - 1972
Van Dyke, Henry "The Story of the Other Wise Man" - 1896
Not all of them are Christmas stories only but they all contain parts that relate to Christmas and I often have to think just about those parts when the Christmas theme comes up.
I have Skipping Christmas on my list this week as well.
ReplyDeletePam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/ten-favorite-holiday-reads-2022-edition/
An absolutely wonderful book, Pam. I really didn't like the film but the book was wonderful.
DeleteI haven't read any of these but I've seen one or two of these titles mentioned on other lists. Little Women is a title that I'm still on the fence about reading—not sure why! 😂 Great list, Marianne!
ReplyDeleteOh, you should, Dini. I'm sure you'll like it. Have you watched any of the movies? I didn't like the latest one, it was too higgledy-piggledy but the 1994 one with Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon is absolutely lovely. Maybe you should start with that. LOL
DeleteI read A Christmas Carol many years ago. I had the opportunity to watch it on Theatre at the Cinema, with a performance from London. It was really great.
ReplyDeleteBuddenbrooks is a great family saga.
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Oooooh, interesting, Lisbeth. I'll have to see how you get one, maybe I'll follow one day.
DeleteMust have been a great performance. I love the story of how such a grinch gets turned around into a philanthropist. Not very believable but ti's a great story. Dickens is just fantastic.
I reread A Christmas Carol every December! You have so many great stories on your list.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lydia. That's a good tradition, I should start that, as well.
DeleteFun list. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cindy. And the same to you.
DeleteI love that you included the Little House books. I love those books! :D
ReplyDeleteSo do I, Lark. They were among the first ones I read in English (as an adult). I just mentioned on another page that the stories only got known in Germany through the TV series with Michael Landon whom we all only knew as "Little Joe" from "Bonanza".
DeleteMy favourite is "The Long Winter", and that's probably the reason I always think about winter and Christmas in connection with the stories.
I love The Long Winter, too! I used to read that one every year around Christmastime. :D
DeleteThat is a nice story for that time of the year, Lark. Great idea.
DeleteThis is a wonderful list! I've read half of them. LITTLE WOMEN and A CHRISTMAS CAROL are two of my favorite books of all time.
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
Ooooh, that's nice, Susan. May I ask which ones?
DeleteSure! Besides LITTLE WOMEN and A CHRISTMAS CAROL, I've read THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER, SKIPPING CHRISTMAS, and LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE.
DeleteI almost thought those might have been the ones, Susan, I think they are the most read ones from that. When my sons were in school, they did the Christmas Pageant play, it was wonderful.
DeleteI've not read any of these, I did try to read Little Women when I was younger, but I got bored and put it down halfway through! I've been asked before if I was named after the character from Little Women (my name is also Jo) because I'm a Jo and a writer, which I've always found quite funny given I actually didn't really like the book (and obviously because my parents' choice of name had nothing to do with Little Women!).
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/12/07/top-ten-tuesday-397/
That is interesting, Jo. One never knows why someone was given a certain name but Jo isn't exactly such an unusual name, so it could have come from a family member or simply because your parents like the name.
DeleteI only read Little Women as an adult, I don't know whether I would have liked it as a child but I suppose I would. So, I don't know whether to recommend reading it now or not.
Still, thanks for your link, see you there.
One of my goals for next year is to read or reread some of the Little House books. I loved them as a kid.
ReplyDeleteThanks, AJ, as I just mentioned to Jo, I never read them as a child, didn't even know the story. The German title is not very inviting (Betty and her sisters), though I probably still would have read it. I read anything that I could get a hold of.
DeleteThis is a fun post! 🙌🎄😍 ~Carol @ Reading Ladies
ReplyDeleteThanks, Carol. I'm glad you added your name since blogger doesn't show it.
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