Suggestions for December BOTM

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  • bocamom62
  on Nov. 5, 2009 at 12:31 PM

• "Tis the Season by Lorna Landvik (author of Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons) 

  Heiress Caroline Dixon has managed to alienate nearly everyone with her alcohol-fueled antics, which have also provided near-constant fodder for the poison-pen tabloids and their gossip-hungry readers. But like so many girls-behaving-badly, the twenty-six-year-old socialite gets her comeuppance, followed by a newfound attempt to live a saner existence, or at least one more firmly rooted in the real world.
  
  As Caro tentatively begins atoning for past misdeeds, she reaches out to two wonderful people who years ago brought meaning to her life: her former nanny, Astrid Brevald, now living in Norway and Arizona dude ranch owner, Cyril Dale. While Astrid fondly remembers Caro as a special, sweet little girl left in her charge, Cyril recalls how he and his late wife were quite taken with the quick-witted teenager Caro had become when she spent a difficult period in her life at the ranch as her father was dying.
  
  In a series of e-mail exchanges, Caro reveals the depth of her pain and the lengths she went to hide it. In turn, Astrid and Cyril share their own stories of challenging times and offer the unconditional support this young woman has never known. The correspondence leads to the promise of a reunion, just in time for Christmas. But the holiday brings unexpected revelations that change the way everyone sees themselves and one another.
  
  At once heartfelt and witty, ’Tis the Season bears good tidings of great joy about the human condition–that down and out doesn’t mean over and done, that the things we need most are closer than we know, and that the true measure of one’s worth rests in the boundless depths of the soul.
  

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  • DragonRiderMD
  on Nov. 5, 2009 at 8:28 PM

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

  It would give all of us who have never actually read it an excuse to do so. :) 

  
  http://www.fiction-addiction.com/

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  • SanDiegoMaxMom
  on Nov. 5, 2009 at 8:43 PM

• Skipping Christmas  by John Grisham is freaking hilarious!!

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  • DragonRiderMD
  on Nov. 5, 2009 at 9:29 PM

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  Quoting SanDiegoMaxMom:
  
  

  Skipping Christmas  by John Grisham is freaking hilarious!!

  
  Have you seen the movie (Christmas with the Kranks)? How does the book compare? I didn't like the movie very much, but I know books are usually better.

  
  http://www.fiction-addiction.com/

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  • sisspurr
  on Nov. 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM

• I was going to suggest Glen Beck's THe Christmas Sweater but I read a review calling the book "weak" so nevermind.

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  • gamom_4
  on Nov. 5, 2009 at 10:29 PM

• Ooh!  Good one!  A classic that everyone knows, but I wonder how many of us have actually read it?  I haven't.
  

  Quoting DragonRiderMD:
  
  

  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

  It would give all of us who have never actually read it an excuse to do so. :) 

  
  

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  • moonsdust
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 9:07 AM

• vision of sugar plums by Janet Evanovich

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  • marthamom
  on Nov. 7, 2009 at 1:57 PM

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  Angels at Christmas: Those Christmas Angels\Where Angels Go - Debbie Macomber

  The Perfect Christmas - Debbie Macomber

  
  

  
  

  “Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ~~ Scott Adams

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  • la_bella_vita
  on Nov. 10, 2009 at 1:04 AM

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  Quoting SanDiegoMaxMom:
  
  

  Skipping Christmas  by John Grisham is freaking hilarious!!

  I have heard this is funny!!!!  I never got around to reading it last christmas
  

     Happily married to my high school sweetheart, soul mate and best friend & Proud mommy of a beautiful princess and handsome little toddler prince!

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  • Debbie0524
  on Nov. 10, 2009 at 9:06 AM

• I have to disagree with the "weak" description for The Christmas Sweater. I read this book last year, and throughly enjoyed it. It's a really quick read, but the story makes you really think afterwards.

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