The Christmas Clock by Kat Martin
A lovely holiday story about a little boy whose guardian, his grandmother, has Alzheimer's and must find someone else to care for him. The other characters are a married couple who have grown apart after decades of marriage, and another couple who dated and split up when they were very young and are just meeting again now. It's a Christmas story, so you can guess how it will all turn out and you'll be right. A light seasonal read, sweet, just not very memorable.The Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans
A hard-nosed business man reads his own obituary in the paper. His picture and information were mistakenly published when another man by the same name died. As startling as that was to see, what really got to him were the online comments in reaction to it. Most of them told of horrible things he'd done to people and how glad they were that he was dead. This brings about a change of heart and he sets out to right some of the wrongs he'd done, though he won't find it as easy as he might have hoped. This is my second time reading this one, with my original review here.Christmas in Prose and Verse - Its Origin, Celebration and Significance ed. by Allison C. Putala
This is a compilation of old stories and poems by the likes of Ben Jonson, Charles Wesley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Milton, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Hans Christian Anderson, Washington Irving, and many others. I've been reading bits of it each Christmas for years but this year wanted to start at the beginning and read through in case I'd missed anything. I read to page 442 of 758 and have bookmarked it so I can pick up next year where I left off. This is a treasure filled with beautifully written thoughts on the season. It's a true joy to read.
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