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12-15-2004, 01:51 PM
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Lady of Letters
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England
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Christmas books
Recommend your favourite seasonal Christmassy novels, poems, plays, whatever, here
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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12-15-2004, 01:54 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 516
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here are my two favorites:
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas: http://www.bfsmedia.com/MAS/Dylan/Christmas.html and A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote sorry I couldn't find the text for the latter online.... my local public radio station airs both every year, and anyway, they really should be heard, not read |
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12-15-2004, 02:37 PM
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Lady Tipple & Queen of Blessed Thistle
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: I've been told it's all in my head
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 Oh, I think it's called Red Ryder or Red Rider.....I have two copies about 3000 miles from here (no really) so I can't be sure.....It's about young boy who asks Santa for a bike, a red ryder (named after a sci-fi character). Well, Santa is hard of hearing and he gives him the bike, but do to a misunderstanding the bike is fused into a tree in the front lawn...Great Pictures!!!! Kids always love it...Sorry about not remembering the name correctly, I was hoping that with a good description someone else could play "smartypants" and help me out with remembering it.  Happy Holidays, Mooters 
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12-15-2004, 05:37 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol
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The movie is known as THE CHRISTMAS STORY and is my favorite Christmas movie. Some channels will run it continuously for 24 hours around Christmas. I spent many a present wrapping chuckling over the story. And my copy is still boxed so I can't help with the original book title, Earthbound!
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12-15-2004, 07:37 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Canada
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My favourite book is "The Polar Express", by Chris Van Allsburg.
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12-15-2004, 08:12 PM
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Enting
Join Date: Dec 2002
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I love "The Poler Express", too. "Twas the Night before Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" are musts too.
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