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Movie: ALot Like Christmas. Popcorn Flix.
The importance of family, forgiveness and love.
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I finished this collection of 7 Christmas stories on audio. I listened to:
A Faraway Smell of Lemon
The Marriage Manual
Christmas Day at the Airport
The Boxing Day Ball
A Snow Garden
I‘ll Be Home for Christmas
Trees

All the stories is about family and feels very real. These stories doesn‘t romanticize Christmas.

My favorite is the one at airport. This feels like a modern retelling of the Christmas Story.

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Four short stories by P.D. James, taking her inspiration from the Christmas country-house Murders of Agatha Christie. #WinterGames #MerryReaders #HolidayRead

‘Patriotism,‘ the story by Yukio Mishima in the tagged collection, is profoundly disturbing because it romanticizes & eroticizes suicide, & describes the act of seppuku in bloody detail. Knowing that the author later died of ritual suicide added to my feelings of dismay, horror & revulsion as I read lines like: “There was a certain elegance, he felt, in the association of death with this radiantly healthy face.”

and now for something different...👻 I got this mini ghost stories collection from a Halloween event at my local library and squeezed in reading it real quick. not really for me, though I enjoyed Bram Stoker's story the most ('The Judge's House'). off to the on-campus little free library it goes.

#AuthorAMonth readers: you have a few days left to post your Roald Dahl reviews to count towards the prize box. I‘ll count the last reviews when I get up on Monday and announce the winner. 🤗

I encourage you to continue your Dahl readings for all of December if you‘re inspired!

Revisiting an old friend. Carver has the best first lines.

Well after reading this short story I went and purchased a collection of Jones short stories. A young man avoids the necessity to face the world and grow up by pursuing a semi-professional career as a boxer, even though in his heart he knows that he lacks the instinct the ability to be a champion finds himself facing an old foe, in a fight which will determine his future. Not a uplifting Rocky style story, much more realistic and grim in tone.

The party was fun and got this guy in the white elephant. I did have The Sheepfarmer's Daughter which sounded great, but it got stolen and so I grabbed this guy and I'm pretty happy about it! All the stories are set in Portland and the gal that brought it really liked it. My mom got Night Circus, which you know I'm going to read too lol

Last Roald Dahl book for me and this was a good one. This was a gathering of his favorite ghost stories. My favorite was The Corner Shop by Cynthia Asquith.
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