December's Meeting

Pick your own Christmas themed book/movie to share with the group & book exchange

Dec 11th (2nd Thurs)
8pm at Andi M.'s 


Ideas for Christmas Books/Movies:

A Christmas Carol
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
It's a Wonderful Life
Luke 2
Christmas from Heaven

Please feel free to add your favorites in the comments.

January's Selections

Christmas Jars
by Jason F. Wright

The Mansion
by Henry Van Dyke

Jan. 17th (3rd Thurs.)
8pm at Aimee K.'s

Summary of Christmas Jars:
Where had it come from? Whose money was it? Was I to spend it? Save it? Pass it on to someone more needy? Above all else, why was I chosen? Certainly there were others, countless others, more needy than me...

Her reporter's intuition insisted that a remarkable story was on the verge of the front page.

Newspaper reporter Hope Jensen uncovers the remarkable secret behind the "Christmas Jars", glass jars filled with coins and bills anonymously left for people in need. But along the way, Hope discovers much more than the origin of the jars. When some unexpected news sets off a chain reaction of kindness, Hope's greatest Christmas Eve wish comes true.

summary from www.goodreads.com

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Summary of The Mansion:
THERE was an air of calm and reserved opulence about the Weightman mansion that spoke not of money squandered, but of wealth prudently applied. Standing on a comer of the Avenue no longer fashionable for residence, it looked upon the swelling tide of business with an expression of complacency and half-disdain.

Van Dyke's Christmas story about a mansion that speaks "not of money squandered but of wealth prudently applied" - the companion story to The Other Wise Man.

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December's Book

The Christmas Box

by Richard Paul Evans

Dec 9th

8pm at Amy W.'s

Summary:

Richard, a busy and preoccupied father, discovers a Christmas box full of love letters from an old woman to her dead daughter and, with the help of an angel, begins to learn the true meaning of Christmas.

December's Book

The Golden Ring
A Christmas Story
by John Snyder

December 9th
8pm at Trina's

The library has several copies of the book available. Click on the picture or the word library above to go directly to the library's website.

Summary:
A puzzling series of dreams shared by Joseph, a hardworking railroad engineer, and his nine-year-old daughter, Anna, about a golden ring given to her by Joseph for her birthday leads both of them to a remarkable experience that will change their lives, in a Christmas tale, based on a true story, set against the backdrop of the Pennsylvania coal-mining country in 1918.

Review:
"Destined to become a classic...will be read by anyone who wants to get closer to the essence of Christmas." -- Washington Times