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'Tis the season to be reading: what to read during Christmastime
Well, the title says it all: what do you read and what do you suggest to read during Christmastime?
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So, here's what's on my list:
- Joan Didion's PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
- Kurt Vonnegut's SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 (again!)
- David Wong's JOHN DIES AT THE END
Since I got married five months ago, I will have to cut my usual reading efforts in half. ;-)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Hundred and One Dalmatians
A Christmas Carol
The Christmas Mystery - Jostein Gaarder
Congratulations!
Might try to read FAAD this Christmas season to kickstart another read through of the series. I got a couple of Fleming books (biographies and such) for the holidays I might try to read as well.
Sorry it’s all Bond and nothing more interesting/diverse! ;)
Fell asleep 3 chapters in
Not a good sign.
That looks great - thanks for the rec!
One of my favourite. It has traditional ghost stories, modern tales, a rather interesting spin on the Nativity story (told by the donkey), it has dark stories, sweet and bittersweet ones. I haven't tried the recipes yet, but at least one is from Nigella Lawson, so they should be all right. They all seem mouth watering anyway. The stories and memories associated with each recipe are quite fascinating in themselves.
CD is a great Christmas read and a solid crime fiction novel in its own right.
Just received in post 2 books, one on cartoonist Ronald Searle ( he of St. Trinians fame, though there was a lot more to him than that!) And a book on famed book illustrator Raymond Briggs.
Oh lovely! I love Searle - first encountered him as the illustrator of the wonderful molesworth books.
Can’t wait to see where I’ve gone.
Read it. It's the perfect Christmastime crime novel.
It also led me on to rereading Reflections of Death which I misremembered as a Christmas anthology because of the snow in one of the middle stories. I think it works as something to read at Christmas though, because there's a naffness to it (there's a panel where Bond looks more like George Takei) but on a certain level I think it knows it's a bit naff. The whole Chekov's gun gag, Penny trying to get Bond to do karaoke, the repeated trips to the bathroom, and of course Uncle James playing chauffeur for Felix's daughter, there's a cosiness to the whole thing which feels festive.
I could say a lot on what I love about this comic, but just on the Christmas tip:
- When Bond returns to MI6, Moneypenny is decorating a small tree for her desk
- Bond stands outside a theatre where The Nutcracker's showing, suggesting the story unfolds on Christmas Eve
- Bond receives a message in a gift box
- Bond has his debriefing with M in Trafalgar Square, where the annual Christmas tree is prominently displayed
I haven't read all the comics yet, particularly from the last couple years, but perhaps Solstice is what OHMSS is to the films - thee Christmas Bond comic!
Along with rereading 007: Solstice given that according to the Shakespeare Fleming biog (which is another book I still need to get to) the Trafalgar Sq Christmas tree was one of his ideas.