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Wonderful. I have never read A Christmas Carol with others. I look forward to revisiting it.
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I m in .. my first read with this group
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Great Kathleen. I’m looking forward to ACC as well. What a perfect book to be reading at this time of the year.
I usually read it every December. The alliteration in the first chapter is worth reading out loud.. slowly..
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I've never read a better opening line than in ACC. I've never been sure how to take it, but I find it six words that impose a sense of both deathly seriousness and unvarnished hilarity.
For me, anyway.
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I've never been sure how to take it, but I find it six words that impose a sense of both deathly seriousness and unvarnished hilarity.
For me, ..."
I agree. I also read ACC every year, but not in December, in July when Christmas seems so very far away and it is just plain hot and sunny. Yuk. Right about that time I need a little Christmas.
Kim wrote: "John wrote: "I've never read a better opening line than in ACC. I've never been sure how to take it, but I find it six words that impose a sense of both deathly seriousness and unvarnished hilari..."
Most of my reading in the winter requires injections of tropical places, with warmth, colors, and salty air. Just to warm me up. I usually turn to Derek Walcott or any number of great South American novelists. Mind over matter when it comes to the horrid cold and snow. ;)
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Yuk. It sounds like torture.
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or if you prefer:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jemimaskelle...
Kim wrote: "https://www.theodysseyonline.com/8-re...or if you prefer:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jemimaskelle..."
This did get me thinking of those things, and then I discovered yet another "escape." And it's right here. ;)
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Just for the record: I'm not sure where my review of A Christmas Carol went. I could have sworn I wrote a review of it. Additionally, when I added the book to my currently reading list, it indicated that I had given ACC three stars. The horror! This is a Five Star All Time Classic. If there six stars, it would get that and more. How it was listed as 3 stars is not my doing. Maybe Marley tried to pull a fast one on me.
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John wrote: "I've never read a better opening line than in ACC. I've never been sure how to take it, but I find it six words that impose a sense of both deathly seriousness and unvarnished hilarity.
For me, ..."
I've never read a better opening line either. I love it so, so much.
Really looking forward to seeing which illustrations Kim features!
John wrote: "Kim wrote: "https://www.theodysseyonline.com/8-re...or if you prefer:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jemimaskelle..."
This did get me t..."
I love the list of books set in tropical locations. I perused and found one, so far, I would like to try. The main character is Walcott Emerson. I like that, too, for its literariness.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Since we have nearly finished reading Nicholas Nickleby, it is now high time I gave you the reading schedule for our next enterprise. In December, we are reading, as usual, one of the Christmas books by Dickens, and as, in the course of the past few years, we have read every single one of them, we are now going to start again with his first and probably most celebrated Christmas novel, A Christmas Carol.
As usual, we will post the latest threads either on Saturdays or Sundays, and our new reading week always starts on a Thursday. This is our schedule:
29/11 - 05/12 CC, Stave 1
06/12 - 12/12 CC, Stave 2
13/12 - 19/12 CC, Stave 3
20/12 - 26/12 CC, Staves 4 and 5
This is a very straightforward and compact timetable, isn't it? We would like to start the New Year with some of the Sketches by Boz, and then tackle our first major novel in 2019 with The Old Curiosity Shop. So, unless you have already got the necessary books, Sketches by Boz or the Curiosity Shop would be a good idea for a your Christmas tree :-)