My reading has almost come to a complete stop at the moment. Our daughters are in a local community theater production of A Christmas Carol (Harriet and Belinda Cratchit) and they have done three of eight performances. The last of this weekend's is a matinee today. I'll be behind the scenes at every show, but I can't read for my own pleasure at those times. I sit in a closet doorway just offstage, reading along with the script and calling for children as they are needed; "Send me Turkey Boy, please! Has anyone seen Apple Girl? Where are Ignorance and Want?"
A Christmas Carol is a wonderful story. Dickens can be so touching (I know Danika particularly likes him). Does anyone have a holiday book or story that they read every year?
One reader's thoughts as she steps from book to book.
Books I've Finished
- "A Christmas Memory"
- by Truman Capote 12/8/12
- "Child's Christmas in Wales"
- by Dylan Thomas 12/7/12
- "One Christmas"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- Inside Mrs. B's Classroom
- by Leslie Baldacci 11/28/12
- The Bee Eater
- by Richard Whitmire 11/15/12
- There Are No Shortcuts
- by Rafe Esquith 10/28/12
- I'd Like to Apologize to
- Every Teacher I Ever Had
- by Tony Danza 10/21/12
- Corked
- by Kathryn Borel 10/15/12
- Year of Learning Dangerously
- by Quinn Cummings 9/30/12
- A Hologram for the King
- by Dave Eggers 8/23/12
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- by Harper Lee 7/18/12
About Me
- Christine
- I often have a few books with bookmarks in them at once. I enjoy classics more than contemporary works of fiction, often read historical fiction, and love to get glimpses into other people's lives by reading memoirs and biographies.
7 comments:
For years, we had a chapter book tucked in with all our Christmas pictures books called Young Claus. Every year as we decorated the tree, and afterwards until we packed up all the Christmas decorations and put them back, we read aloud from that book, starting over at the beginning every year. Invariably, we put the Christmas stuff away before we finished the book. It was only about two years ago that we finally read quickly enough to finish the darn thing and find out how it ended.
Really a good book, if you're not heartily sick of it from too many rereads. Pity it seems to be out of print.
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Daniel was given the "Polar Express" several years ago. We've read it every year since. I refuse to see the movie because I fear it will spoil the sweet story.
I dunno about a sweet story (I've never read it), but the bits of the movie I've seen had some highly annoying music. I think you've made a good decision.
On Christmas Eve, at my grandmother's house, we would pass around a copy of "The Night Before Christmas" and everyone would read a line or two from it, and we would all laugh and read the last lines together.
My father would always say, "...then he turned like a jerk" instead of "...with a jerk" and we thought that was really funny.
I love the story of "A Christmas Carol", though. I always cry when Scrooge calls for the boy in the street. We read it as a family a couple years ago, and it was just wonderful.
I usually like to read or listen to Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales. I read A Christmas Carol last year and think I will read it again this year. And there are two picture books that I always take out from the library to read to my daughters, The Tomten and The Tomten and the Fox, both by Astrid Lindgren.
I love the family read-aloud traditions that DRD and Sophia shared.
Insomniac, you are right to keep The Polar Express as a special read-aloud. Seeing the movie with its strange CG people and spooky, empty North Pole would not add to the wonder of the picture book.
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