The small town of Parrish Springs is not ready for Matilda Honeycutt. A strange older woman with scraggly gray hair and jewelry that jangles as she...
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Nov 13, 2011
Brenda
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The small town of Parrish Springs is wary of the new stranger in town. Matilda Honeycutt comes to town and purchases the on Barton Building on main street. One person in particular isn't happy that she has come to town and that's city councilman George Snider. Thing is he was hoping to purchase the building himself, and is sort of disgruntled that Matilda beat him to it. He gets the rumor mill going about the eccentric Matilda and the type of business she might be opening. When the store finally
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Nov 06, 2011
Tamara
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THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPE by Melody Carlson is a quirky story, hedging on the mystical.
Shop owner Matilda Honeycutt has come to the sleepy town of Parrish Springs. But, as she settles in, the town folk are not very welcoming or accepting of Matilda’s eccentricities. Buying a rundown building in the middle of downtown, the town expects Matilda to fix up the store. So, they are not at all pleased that her Christmas Shoppe is nothing more than a secondhand store with tattered and discarded ite More...
Shop owner Matilda Honeycutt has come to the sleepy town of Parrish Springs. But, as she settles in, the town folk are not very welcoming or accepting of Matilda’s eccentricities. Buying a rundown building in the middle of downtown, the town expects Matilda to fix up the store. So, they are not at all pleased that her Christmas Shoppe is nothing more than a secondhand store with tattered and discarded ite More...
Jan 13, 2012
Laura
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The Christmas Shoppe by Melody Carlson is a sweet little novella that is a perfect read for this time of year.
Matilda Honeycutt has just moved to the town of Parrish Springs and she's already made a few people angry. Not only does she buy a building out from under the nose of city councilman George Snider, but she seems to be having an unusual effect on the people who visit her store. After naming her store The Christmas Shoppe, everyone is expecting a unique store that will brighten More...
Matilda Honeycutt has just moved to the town of Parrish Springs and she's already made a few people angry. Not only does she buy a building out from under the nose of city councilman George Snider, but she seems to be having an unusual effect on the people who visit her store. After naming her store The Christmas Shoppe, everyone is expecting a unique store that will brighten More...
Dec 14, 2011
Lesa
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What’s the Christmas season without a little magic and a little faith? Melody Carlson, author of over 200 books, always combines both in her inspirational Christmas stories. The Christmas Shoppe is no exception.
Although Councilman George Snider was not happy to lose out in purchasing the Barton Building in Parrish Springs, the new city manager, Susanna Elton, was hopeful that Matilda Honeycutt would bring something new to the town. Susanna was so hopeful that she encouraged her former More...
Although Councilman George Snider was not happy to lose out in purchasing the Barton Building in Parrish Springs, the new city manager, Susanna Elton, was hopeful that Matilda Honeycutt would bring something new to the town. Susanna was so hopeful that she encouraged her former More...
Nov 29, 2011
Ibjoy1953
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The Christmas Shoppe.....by Melody Carlson
An old historic building is up for sale along the towns shopping stores and the new stranger in town purchases it. The town people are suspicious of Matilda Honeycutt because she is opening a new store but the only thing they see that she has is old junk that no one would want. This causes quite a stir among the townspeople and they get together to see what they can do about running her out of town before she ruins all of their Christmas busine More...
An old historic building is up for sale along the towns shopping stores and the new stranger in town purchases it. The town people are suspicious of Matilda Honeycutt because she is opening a new store but the only thing they see that she has is old junk that no one would want. This causes quite a stir among the townspeople and they get together to see what they can do about running her out of town before she ruins all of their Christmas busine More...
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Nov 22, 2011
Gail
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The Christmas Shoppe, by Melody Carlson, Hardcover, Revell, 2011, 168 Pages, ISBN-13: 978-0800719265, $15.99
When grumpy Councilman Snyder learned Matilda Honeycutt won the sealed bid for the rundown building he had a buyer for his temper tantrum could be heard near and far. He considered Matilda an interloper the small town of Parrish Springs could ill afford with her scraggly hair and jingling jewelry. Why she looked more like a “bag lady” than a respectable buyer. Who knew what More...
Nov 13, 2011
Abbie
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An eccentric old lady with strange ways, a small town, a ruthless City Councilman and a new to town City Manager fleeing a past of brokenness and pain are thrown together in a story that effects every one in this sleepy little town.
Melody Carlson has woven together a heart-touching story of faith and redemption. This book is just the right length to read on a lazy fall day as you cuddle beneath a stack of blankets. The story is easy enough to read that from the first page the reader More...
Melody Carlson has woven together a heart-touching story of faith and redemption. This book is just the right length to read on a lazy fall day as you cuddle beneath a stack of blankets. The story is easy enough to read that from the first page the reader More...
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Nov 13, 2011
Lisa
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Just like the townspeople in The Christmas Shoppe, I thought the store was going to hold Christmas decorations and maybe even small gifts for children to give their parents. Silly me!! I was sure surprised when the truth came out!
Loving Melody Carson books, I was surprised at the animosity of some characters. It just didn’t seem her style to have such bitter individuals in the story. I soon learned the necessity of those folks to make the story work. Even the nicer characters began to More...
Loving Melody Carson books, I was surprised at the animosity of some characters. It just didn’t seem her style to have such bitter individuals in the story. I soon learned the necessity of those folks to make the story work. Even the nicer characters began to More...
Nov 08, 2011
Victor
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Melody Carlson in her new book, "The Christmas Shoppe" published by Revell lets us experience Christmas in the town of Parrish Springs.
From the Inside Flap: The small town of Parrish Springs is not quite ready for Matilda Honeycutt. A strange woman with scraggly hair and jewelry that jangles as she walks, Matilda keeps busy stocking and arranging her new shop on the town's quaint and lovely Main Street. When rumors start to fly about what might be going on behind the papered More...
From the Inside Flap: The small town of Parrish Springs is not quite ready for Matilda Honeycutt. A strange woman with scraggly hair and jewelry that jangles as she walks, Matilda keeps busy stocking and arranging her new shop on the town's quaint and lovely Main Street. When rumors start to fly about what might be going on behind the papered More...
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Nov 07, 2011
Clockstein
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The Christmas Shoppe by Melody Carlson is a sweet holiday novella with a message of hope for readers. Susanna Elton is still settling into her job as city manager of Parrish Springs when newcomer Matilda Honeycutt moves to town and purchases a building, intending to open a new store. As Matilda begins to ready the store for opening, the whole town is thrown into controversy. A councilman is angry that she outbid him on the building and stirs up trouble against her, but even that doesn't create t
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Nov 06, 2011
Louise
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The small town of Parrish Springs is not quite ready for Matilda Honeycutt. A strange woman with scraggly hair and jewellery that jangles as she walks, Matilda keeps busy stocking and arranging her new shop on the town’s quaint and lovely Main Street. When rumours start to fly about what might be going on behind the papered-up windows and the locked door, the image-conscious residents start looking for a way to get this woman and her wares out of their town before C More...
The small town of Parrish Springs is not quite ready for Matilda Honeycutt. A strange woman with scraggly hair and jewellery that jangles as she walks, Matilda keeps busy stocking and arranging her new shop on the town’s quaint and lovely Main Street. When rumours start to fly about what might be going on behind the papered-up windows and the locked door, the image-conscious residents start looking for a way to get this woman and her wares out of their town before C More...
Nov 05, 2011
Cindy
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Do you have everything you need? Well neither do the people of Parrish Springs, however they do not understand that the things they really need are not things but perhaps concepts and feelings. Like love, forgiveness, peace, kindness. When a new lady comes to town, Matilda Honeycutt and buys the Barton Building, the downtown businesses are worried about what type of business will be going in. Imagine their dismay, after waiting weeks it seems this business is a thrift store, filled with horr
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Nov 14, 2011
Giovanni
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I have my wife hooked on these things, these little novels around this time of year. Melody Carlson is beginning to become a tradition here at Casa de Gelati. My wife reads the story and then tells me to read it. I know I will enjoy it so I do and did, then my daughters form a line and the book goes from one to the other till they have all read it. Pretty good mileage on this novel.
What is not to like? The cover just rocks, the content is just as good if not better which is a true complime More...
What is not to like? The cover just rocks, the content is just as good if not better which is a true complime More...
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Oct 20, 2011
Laura
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Title: THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPE
Author: Melody Carlson
Publisher: Revell
September 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8007-1926-5
Genre: Inspirational/Contemporary/Christmas
Matilda Honeycutt is a strange woman with scraggly hair and jewelry that jangles. She reminds some of hippies in the sixties. And the small town of Parrish Springs is not ready for someone like Matilda.
When Matilda buys a prominent business location, people are curious about what kind of shop she’s opening More...
Author: Melody Carlson
Publisher: Revell
September 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8007-1926-5
Genre: Inspirational/Contemporary/Christmas
Matilda Honeycutt is a strange woman with scraggly hair and jewelry that jangles. She reminds some of hippies in the sixties. And the small town of Parrish Springs is not ready for someone like Matilda.
When Matilda buys a prominent business location, people are curious about what kind of shop she’s opening More...
Nov 12, 2011
Renee
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Since here in upstate New York we experienced our first snowstorm of the season in October, we’ve already been thinking Christmas! Just this weekend I fed my holiday spirit with a sweet Christmas novella by Melody Carlson called The Christmas Shoppe.
The Christmas Shoppe tells the story of Matilda Honeycutt and her store filled with treasures. Well, they don’t appear to be treasures at first glance. But as the shoppers look more closely at Matilda’s stock, they find exactly what they More...
The Christmas Shoppe tells the story of Matilda Honeycutt and her store filled with treasures. Well, they don’t appear to be treasures at first glance. But as the shoppers look more closely at Matilda’s stock, they find exactly what they More...
Nov 10, 2011
April
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THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPE by Melody Carlson is an interesting inspirational Christmas contemporary fiction set in small town Parrish Springs. This is the story of an eccentric newcomer,Matilda Honeycutt,her unusual store. "The Christmas Shoppe" is a charming story of with sweet surprises,curiosity, a small town,the townspeople,and a cluttered shop full of things to be discovered and magic. "The Christmas Shoppe" brings the townspeople together, their past issues,healing,forgivenes
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Nov 28, 2011
Anne
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Matilda Honeycutt causes quite a stir when she moves into the small town of Parrish Springs and buys a building to open her shop in before the holidays. Matilda is different from the people of the town, some of the them calling her an old hippie. The townspeople become even more upset when her store opens in the middle of the downtown area and it is nothing but a secondhand store selling worthless old junk. The town becomes divided over whether she should stay or be forced out. As more of the
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Nov 06, 2011
Carly
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I just don’t think Christmastime would be right without one of Melody Carlson’s Christmas stories. I have read her new Christmas book every year for the past few years and I always enjoy them. The Christmas Shoppe was no exception. I enjoyed the cozy, small town and the interesting characters that Melody created. Now, this book like all of her Christmas books, is a simple story without a great deal of depth or development. And that’s okay because Melody saves that for her other books. This
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Nov 12, 2011
Lauri
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This is a funny little book, full of small town people and a few quirky outsiders. Every where you go you run into one or two people who don't fit the general mold and Matilda is one of those people, but you gotta love her! Crazy as she seems she has a big heart and a happy soul. The problem is, the town people want her OUT and they want her out now.
Matilda is one serious sales-person, people walk into her store and before they know it she has charmed them into taking something home More...
Matilda is one serious sales-person, people walk into her store and before they know it she has charmed them into taking something home More...
Nov 07, 2011
Melanie
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The Christmas Shoppe
Melody Carlson
Revell
The Bantam building, center of Main Street in small town Parrish Springs is auctioned off in a sealed envelope auction. Matilda Honeycutt comes out of nowhere and wins the bid for the building. Who is this mysterious older woman who has come to open a Christmas Shoppe?
As the town’s newspaper owner Tom, upon request of Councilman George, seeks out to find the nitty gritty on Matilda, the town’s people begin to change.
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Melody Carlson
Revell
The Bantam building, center of Main Street in small town Parrish Springs is auctioned off in a sealed envelope auction. Matilda Honeycutt comes out of nowhere and wins the bid for the building. Who is this mysterious older woman who has come to open a Christmas Shoppe?
As the town’s newspaper owner Tom, upon request of Councilman George, seeks out to find the nitty gritty on Matilda, the town’s people begin to change.
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Oct 10, 2011
Jenn
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Let the season of Christmas books begin! (Yes, I know I have a Christmas addiction, I freely admit it.) I think the thing I love the most is that you know with a Christmas book that everything is going to turn out better; the reader comes away with a hopeful, uplifted feeling that in turn gives a boost of positive energy to your attitude. I guess you could call it an infusion of the spirit of the holiday season.
As soon as I began reading this story, I could a made-for-TV movie unfol More...
As soon as I began reading this story, I could a made-for-TV movie unfol More...
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Nov 20, 2011
Cheryl
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The small town of Parrish Springs is in an uproar when newcomer, Matilda Honeycutt arrives in town. She purchases the unoccupied old Barton building. This makes George Snider irate. He was going to purchase the building. Than Matilda has the nerve to board up the windows, so that no one can see what type of store she is opening. Rumor has it that it is going to be a thrift shop. None of the other merchants are happy about this.
With the town folks not happy, this is a problem for new More...
With the town folks not happy, this is a problem for new More...
Oct 19, 2011
Jodie
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In the quiet little town of Parrish Springs, nothing goes unnoticed. And when a seemingly strange lady buys the building in the center of downtown, everyone's interest in the woman and her business is peaked. Dressed frumpy and opening a store full of "junk," Matilda Honeycutt definitely dances to the beat of her own drum, but in this small town, will she be able to run her store or will the City council run her out of town?
I really enjoyed the simplicity, but powerful mean More...
I really enjoyed the simplicity, but powerful mean More...
Feb 13, 2012
Kaylea
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It's beginning to look a lot like .... Christmas! If reading Christmas novellas, then Melody Carson's newest offering, The Christmas Shoppe, will fill you heart with the holiday spirit.
Set in the fictional town of Parrish Springs, The Christmas Shoppe tells the story of a town full of people who are suffering from a "lack" of Christmas spirit.
When a stranger - Matilda Honeycutt - moves in to open her Christmas Shoppe, life changes for the good for the people of Parr More...
Set in the fictional town of Parrish Springs, The Christmas Shoppe tells the story of a town full of people who are suffering from a "lack" of Christmas spirit.
When a stranger - Matilda Honeycutt - moves in to open her Christmas Shoppe, life changes for the good for the people of Parr More...
Oct 11, 2011
Mayda
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The Christmas Shoppe is a charming, heart-warming tale set in a small town. A rather peculiar woman comes to the town, purchases a store, and opens a Christmas shop. But this store, like its owner, is unlike anything the townspeople have ever seen. Barely veiled hostility erupts from the other business people and town leaders because of the shabbiness of the store’s used merchandise. But there is more to the store – and this tale – than meets the eye. Is it magic? Is this strange person wo
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Dec 28, 2011
Katrina
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Matilda Honeycutt purchased the old Barton Building in Parrish Springs and Councilman Snyder was not pleased. Appearances seemed important to the residents, so it didn't take long before most of them were also against Matilda. This woman who was `different' wasn't welcome in their small town, but what could they do to get her to leave?
The book's cover caught my eye, and then I noticed the author's name. I had never read one of Melody Carlson's Christmas books, so I decided to buy thi More...
The book's cover caught my eye, and then I noticed the author's name. I had never read one of Melody Carlson's Christmas books, so I decided to buy thi More...
Nov 20, 2011
Eva
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What a sweet little ditty of a book this one turned out to be!
The beginning of it can be likened unto a... couple spoonfuls of whipped cream: it sure satisfies the cravings of that sweet tooth, but fluffy it is, and nutritious it’s not. It was hard for me to ‘get into it’ because of this; I kept wondering when the substance would come in. However, I stuck it out because I knew it was coming and couldn’t wait to find out how it would unfold.
Guess what I get tell you, dear More...
The beginning of it can be likened unto a... couple spoonfuls of whipped cream: it sure satisfies the cravings of that sweet tooth, but fluffy it is, and nutritious it’s not. It was hard for me to ‘get into it’ because of this; I kept wondering when the substance would come in. However, I stuck it out because I knew it was coming and couldn’t wait to find out how it would unfold.
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Jan 22, 2012
Karen
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The small town of Parrish Springs is not ready for Matilda Honeycutt. A strange older woman with scraggly gray hair and jewelry that jangles as she walks, Matilda is certainly not the most likely person to buy the old Barton Building on the town's quaint main street. When it becomes apparent that her new shop doesn't fit the expectations of Parrish Springs residents, a brouhaha erupts. After all, Christmas is approaching, and the last thing the town needs is a junky shop run by someone who looks
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Nov 16, 2011
Diane A
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Lost but remembered, then a new start…
Reach to the soul to change the heart.
When the people of Parrish Springs visit Matilda’s shop, they often leave with renewed hope. Their loneliness, lost, or pain is seen with new vision.
Melody has crafted a wonderful Christmas tale, full of delightful characters that may awaken your “Scrooge” or soften your heart. The story, about Matilda Honeycutt and the people of Parrish Springs is a delightful. One that should be read then More...
Reach to the soul to change the heart.
When the people of Parrish Springs visit Matilda’s shop, they often leave with renewed hope. Their loneliness, lost, or pain is seen with new vision.
Melody has crafted a wonderful Christmas tale, full of delightful characters that may awaken your “Scrooge” or soften your heart. The story, about Matilda Honeycutt and the people of Parrish Springs is a delightful. One that should be read then More...
Dec 07, 2011
Itsjustme-wendy
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Great little book! It didn't take me long to devour this little gem. Very nice sweet Christmas story. This shows the real Spirit of Christmas - Forgiveness, Love, Peace, and Truth. At the end of the book it has a nice Christian message with the true reason for the Holiday - Jesus' birth.
What makes this book so fun and cute is all the little magic involved. Is Matilda a Witch like the residents of this small town believe? Is she an Angel? or is she just a very wise old woman who happens More...
What makes this book so fun and cute is all the little magic involved. Is Matilda a Witch like the residents of this small town believe? Is she an Angel? or is she just a very wise old woman who happens More...
