With the Christmas holidays coming upon us, hopefully you can find some time to get some reading done.
Here’s some Christmas themed reads that I have enjoyed this week.
Short Story
The tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas eve is wonderfully sent up by Jerome K Jerome with, I promise, some chuckle out loud moments from an Edwardian writer who has an oddly modern feel.
Download/ read online here Told After Supper
Poems
Two 20thC poems about the Kings from the East:
WB Yeats’ The Magi and TS Eliot’s modernist masterpiece Journey of the Magi
Novella
It’s the greatest Christmas story of them all...probably.
Download/read online a copy of A Christmas Carol
Essay
Christmas is a time for memories and nostalgia for times past - this charming personal memoir pays tribute to the power of music to bring back happy memories of people and places
Mum and Fritz by Tiffany Murray
Bonus link - A reminder that you can find new novels, poems and non-fiction to read *for free* if you have a Haringey library card and a pin number* and a (non-kindle) reader. Find out more here
*if you know your pin, ask at your local library for your personal pin
Merry Christmas and happy reading!
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