Every year on the first day of Christmas vacation, Judy reads Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. A few years ago, she wanted me to read it with her, and bought me this book that not only has the beloved Christmas classic, but other stories by Dickens as well. I promised her I would read it with her this year. Anyone else care to join us?
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whose eyes are those???? so mysterious!
That is cool! Where and when do you guys read it? Not that I could make it, I am just curious.
We read at our own houses, and I believe she started yesterday. However, I won't be able to start until tonight, or Sunday after church.
Yay! It's time, it's time!
Jodi, I read it every year - I start it on the evening of the last day of school before vacation - for me that was last night.
"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail."
I love it! I gave a talk in church one year about charity and it had a lot more references to Dickens than to the Bible - is that bad? :-)
Of course it's not bad. The story of Scrooge is a story of Redemption.
Thank you, Mic. Redemption is my favorite theme in literature. I've been waiting to see Will Smith's new movie "Seven Pounds" because I'm assuming by the title it's about redemption (a reference to Shakespeare's seven pounds of flesh, but isn't this movie also about organ transplants? So maybe that's what the title refers to, too, but organs aren't flesh, are they? Do I need to google before I finish this comment?) I heard the movie's a renter, though, but I don't care, I'm still going to see it - maybe today, and then I can answer my own questions.
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