Christmas Past: The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday Traditions by Brian Earl

 

Title:  Christmas Past: The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday Traditions

Author:  Brian Earl

Narrated by:  Brian Earl

Publisher: Recorded Books

Length: Approximately 4 hours and 21 minutes

Source: Review Copy from NetGalley.  Thank-you!

 

Do you like learning about the history of holiday traditions?  I love it!  I’ve been reading books about holiday traditions since I was in elementary school.

I was very excited to discover this audiobook this year, Christmas Past:  The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday Traditions.  I was even more excited to learn as I listened that Brian Earl has a podcast called Christmas Past and I have also been enjoying listening to it this Christmas season.  Christmas Past is a short fun book that has four main sections:  food, entertainment, sights and sounds, and society.  Each section has several chapters with a variety of subjects.  I loved learning about fruit cake, Christmas cards, wrapping paper, Christmas songs, Christmas movies, and why do we say Merry Christmas rather than Happy Christmas?  There were many other interesting topics as well.

Brian Earl the author narrated this and also does his podcast.  He was a great narrator and very interesting to listen to.  After I finished up this book, I immediately started listening to his podcast.

I highly recommend this book and podcast to anyone who is interested in learning more about Christmas traditions.