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Read A Christmas Carol #ACarolADay

Continued with The Christmas Chronicles and I desember

I finished The Christmas Oratorio, read Homecoming and I‘m currently reading Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron

Merry Christmas everyone 🎄🤶🎅🏻

My rating of this book has more to do with my expectations of the book than the book itself.

I thought this would be a Christmas book, but the only thing remotely Christmassy about the book is the title and that a man comes home to put on the Oratorio before Christmas.

Other than that this is more a family saga. Solveig wants to put up the Christmas oratorio, but dies in a cycle accident. Then we follow her husband and children and their lives.

With a Hardy-like beginning, this novel follows the impact of a woman‘s death on three generations. Her husband Aron, unable to work the farm moves the family into town and slowly loses reality. Sidler, a witness to the accident, lives life at a remove. Victor, his estranged son, closes the circle by conducting a performance of Bach‘s Christmas Oratorio that his grandmother spent ten years rehearsing and was indirectly responsible for her death.

I‘ve fallen a bit behind with my #wintergames2020 points this week after such a strong start last week 😬 sometimes I‘m SO busy I just don‘t know where the time went at the end of the week, particularly with the new job which I‘m definitely enjoying but is a lot of time. Spending Saturday morning before I teach my zoom class finishing this one

#merryreaders @Clwojick +1

Spent the morning cleaning and now sitting down with some coffee and the tagged book which I ordered weeks and weeks ago and it‘s finally arrived! Very excited to start this for #wintergames2020 in a clean wintry flat

#merryreaders @Clwojick +1

Some of my December TBR for #wintergames2020. Did I mention I am not fond of holiday books? (insert grinch here) However, I was able to find a dozen or so winter-themed books in order to score some points for team #merryreaders!! ❄ ❄ ❄