Christmas Stories

Dec 25 2006

REVIEW: e Before Christmas by Matthew Beaumont

Dear Mr. Beaumont, Anyone who’s ever had to suffer through workplace emails, workplace politics, and workplace Christmas parties needs to read this book. It’s effing brilliant. Told entirely through emails, we get to watch the annual Christmas party being planned at the Miller Shanks ad agency’s London branch office, as well as following the ad(…)

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REVIEW: Cat Tales: A Christmas Story by Leta Nolan Childers

Dec 24 2006

REVIEW: Cat Tales: A Christmas Story by Leta Nolan Childers

Dear Ms. Childers, I admit I’m a sap for any books with cats in them and this one sounded cute and fluffy. Two older cats explain the magic and meaning of Christmas to a young kitten who’s puzzled by this whole Christmas Tree, packages, nativity scene and Santa idea. The story is sweet, the illustrations(…)

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Dec 23 2006

REVIEW: Father Christmas by Barbara Metzger

Dear Ms Metzger, Christmas themed books can be a hard sell to me. I don’t want too much “from the heart” gushiness but I do want some sentiments of the season, otherwise why use that setting? “Father Christmas” strikes the right balance and adds a lot of the humor I’ve come to expect from your(…)

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Dec 22 2006

REVIEW: Christmas Revels by Mary Jo Putney

Dear Ms. Putney, This collection, published by Jove in 2002, includes one original contemporary Christmas novella and reprints of four of your older novellas from the early 1990s. All but one were new to me when I picked up this book. Here are my opinions of each of the stories: “A Holiday Fling” This is(…)

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REVIEW: Santa Baby by Jennifer Crusie, Lori Foster and Carly Phillips

Nov 29 2006

REVIEW: Santa Baby by Jennifer Crusie, Lori Foster and Carly Phillips

Dear Ms. Crusie, Foster and Phillips: I would have never thought the three of you were a good match in an anthology but, for the most part, it worked. For the readers edification, however, only Hot Toy by Jennifer Crusie is a new contribution. Christmas Bonus by Lori Foster was previously published in All I(…)

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REVIEW: The Cockermouth Mail by Dinah Dean

Oct 28 2006

REVIEW: The Cockermouth Mail by Dinah Dean

Dear Readers, For those interested in trying Dinah Dean who don’t want to pay a fortune for her Russian set Regency books, this is one that was reissued in the US and which is easier (and cheaper) to find. It’s a sweet, more old fashioned type of book (it was written in 1982) and is(…)

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