We read A
Christmas Carol for our book club this month.
Books have been delayed through the library, so we wanted to make sure
that we had a book to read. We’ve now
set up books through summer so we can order books ahead of time. Have you had to make any changes with book
club due to COVID?
A Christmas Carol
is a class story and I’ve reviewed it a few times on this blog. I’m not going to go through the synopsis
again, but I noticed this time that the version I’ve been reading since childhood
was abridged! I read the full version
this time. It’s such a short novel, I’m
not sure why they abridged it. All I
could think of that they took out is that Dickens is VERY descriptive about
food. I loved the description. The
kindle version I read was a Penguin classic version and I really liked the introduction. It gave great information about Charles
Dickens and his Christmas novels.
In book club, we
noted that the book gets quite dark, when the third spirit shows people bartering
over Scrooge’s belongings. It was sad that
people took the blankets and clothes from his dead body.
A Christmas Carol
is such a part of our culture now with plays, musicals, movies, TV shows,
cartoons, audiobooks, kids’ books, retellings, etc. It’s amazing.
My personal favorite is Mickey’s Christmas Carol and I also love the
1938 movie staring Reginald Owen.
Dickens usually wrote such long novels, it is funny that his most endearing
book is one of his shortest.
What are your
thoughts about Christmas Carol?
Book Source: I read an antique version I bought years ago
and a kindle Penguin classic version I bought from Amazon.
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