Synopsis
“‘Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding,” says Scrooge. Mean old Scrooge despises Christmas, until Christmas Eve when a haunted voice from the past changes his life – overnight!”
-Synopsis from Libby
Review
Hello everyone, this post is coming up a little later than planned due to it being a surprisingly busy month for me.
A Christmas Carol was my pick for this month’s Rory Gilmore Book Club, being hosted by Jules over at The Literary Lifestyle. The prompt for this month was to read a book adapted to a film. I chose this because I’ve never read it, and it was my first Dickens as well.
First of all, I was under the impression this was a long novel. I had no idea it was in fact under 200 pages! Now I know why people say they read it ever December as it would be very easy to squeeze in even at a busy time of year 😉
I loved reading this book so much more than I thought I would. The writing was both whimsical and serious as was the topic. Having seen the various film adaptations, I was familiar was the story but reading it is a very different experience.
I’m so glad I chose to read this, something new to me, rather than reread a book I was already familiar with. It’s also given me a jump start on reading some of the classics that have been looming on my reading list for years.
I look forward to continuing this challenge next month!
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