Holiday Books
Dec. 26th, 2010 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julieandrewsSo I had this plan to read holiday books. I think I read.. 2.
I read and reviewed (on goodreads) The Best Christmas Pageant ever. It motivated me to buy the DVD, which we all watched in a lull today. Not bad, not bad. I don't read/watch a lot of books that are like 'yes, yes, church is exactly like that'. With all the gossippy/do-everything ladies and whatnot.
I read and failed to review Herschel and the Hannukah Goblins, which I did like quite a bit. It's a picturebook and a bit like a haunted house story and a bit like a tricking (well, goblins in this case) story. And I actually learned a little bit about how to play the dreidel and what the shamash candle is for. I'm still sore about missing playing with a dreidel in 4th grade because I got sick. I believe it was chicken pox.
I also started to read the book based on the movie based on the essays "A Christmas Story". There's several essays that he turned into the screenplay. I haven't gotten very far in them, but I actually think watching it is more enjoyable. And I never did get to see all of it this year! True story or not true story? I'm still confused on that. Can you be a fictional 'essay'? Isn't that a short story?
My sister-in-law also recommended another book, which turned out to have a lot more text than I thought! I didn't actually start to read that. I may yet, since I did go to the trouble of ILLing it.
Time to watch Dr. Who.
I read and reviewed (on goodreads) The Best Christmas Pageant ever. It motivated me to buy the DVD, which we all watched in a lull today. Not bad, not bad. I don't read/watch a lot of books that are like 'yes, yes, church is exactly like that'. With all the gossippy/do-everything ladies and whatnot.
I read and failed to review Herschel and the Hannukah Goblins, which I did like quite a bit. It's a picturebook and a bit like a haunted house story and a bit like a tricking (well, goblins in this case) story. And I actually learned a little bit about how to play the dreidel and what the shamash candle is for. I'm still sore about missing playing with a dreidel in 4th grade because I got sick. I believe it was chicken pox.
I also started to read the book based on the movie based on the essays "A Christmas Story". There's several essays that he turned into the screenplay. I haven't gotten very far in them, but I actually think watching it is more enjoyable. And I never did get to see all of it this year! True story or not true story? I'm still confused on that. Can you be a fictional 'essay'? Isn't that a short story?
My sister-in-law also recommended another book, which turned out to have a lot more text than I thought! I didn't actually start to read that. I may yet, since I did go to the trouble of ILLing it.
Time to watch Dr. Who.