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  <title><![CDATA[Julemysteriet (Aschehougs juniorb²ker)]]></title>
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  <default_description>A boy called Joachim acquires a strange old Advent calender - and uncovers from it the story of a girl called Elisabet, who disappeared from her home fifty years earlier. Elisabet has been taken back through time and right across Europe to Palestine, to see the Holy Family in Bethlehem. Two thousand years of history flash by, and angels, shepherds and wise men join her on her joyful pilgrimage. It is Joachim who, through the Advent calendar, makes it possible for her to come home. THE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY transcends all barriers. It has already proved a great success with colour decorations for children, and as a paperback for adults. It has now been abridged for younger readers and freshly illustrated by a talented new young artist.  The qualities of wonder and enquiry that readers loved in SOPHIE'S WORLD are as strong as ever in this beautiful and mysterious story which appeals to believers and non-believers alike.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you have ever read Jostein Gaarder's book, Sophie's World, you know this author can twist the plot in such a way as to boggle the mind. The Christmas Mystery is a little more innocuous than Sophie's World, and a little more meaty than most Christmas &quot;fluff&quot; stories. I first read it seve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35339124">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came across this on the library shelf when I was gathering books to put on our Christmas book display.  I noticed it was by Jostein Gaarder, the author of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World_Paperback_" title="Sophie's World (Paperback) by Jostein Gaarder">Sophie's World</a> and it looked so intriguing.  I read it straight through, but I think it would be more fun to read it day by day starting on Dec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79656717">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;Christmas is the world's biggest birthday party, for everybody in the world is invited to join in. That's why the party has lasted for so many years.&quot;</em><br/><br/>Fifty years ago a girl disappeared from her home in Norway. She ran after a lamb and found herself travelling right across Euro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52468086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1948, a little girl named Elisabet Hansen disappeared from a department store in Norway not long before Christmas.  She was never heard from again.<br/><br/>Fifty years later, a little boy named Joachim was shopping for an Advent calendar with his father.  In a bookshop window, he spots an Adve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9987464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16289724">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a wonderful and unique one in that it is an advent calendar in book form. There are twenty-four chapters each representing a day from the first to the twenty-fourth of December and tells the story of a boy who finds an old handmade advent calendar in a shop out of which falls tiny piece...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16289724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50267905">
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    <body><![CDATA[A literary advent calendar its one i try to read every December one chapter a day. Travelling in time and distance from Norway to Bethlehem it is intriguing and fascinating to watch the strands of history unravel and the story tie up neatly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this while I was sick.  It was a really fun story, but didn't take as much brain power as Sophie's World (a good thing at the time).  A nice book to read during Advent.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never did manage to finish this story. I became easily bored and distracted. I put it to one side meaning to go back to it and never did.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We are reading one chapter a day--in the morning or afternoon, not as part of our evening advent time.<br/><br/>We quit. I love the idea, but Eli lost interest, truthfully the story was not all that enticing.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[اين كتاب در واقع نوعي تقويم خانوادگي كريسمس محسوب ميشود.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[interesting read...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't really one of my favorites by Gaarder. Yet, I'd say it's a nice story for younger children to introduce them to basic historic events, places and also basic religious (Christian) stuff. Very simple story line, with a somewhat philosophical ending. Nice morals, nice book, just not awesome...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15904885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[پر از تناقض گويي هاي فاحش در زمان بندي است ... گرچه زياد خدشه اي به اصل داستان وارد نمي شود اما بالاخره نويسنده بايد توجه مي كرد]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a unique twist on the Christmas story. I find the current feelings about Christmas nauseating (buying in excess, always wanting more, etc.), and this brings you back to why we celebrate Christmas in the first place.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ye nokte: 2 ta tashakor dar kole dastan vojood dasht ke jalebe tavajoh bood..<br/>...<br/>man 6 ta seke roye dastane yahya shart mibandam! to chi?!<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eventually, I have understanded why the Chrismas is very important for the Christain. Jostein still insert the mystery to make his nice story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a great way to spend advent time, opening each door of the advent calendar, day by day, as we go through time and places. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a so-so book. If you read it, and have a better idea about it, then let me know!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this hard to get into...and therefore, never finished it.]]></body>
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