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Go on, admit it! You've never read this brilliant Christmas novel |
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Announce to your people in the office, or at school, or in the shop, 'Christmas! Don't talk to be about Christmas. I've had it up to here with Christmas!'  What can you guarantee that each of them will say? 'Scrooge!' loud and clear. Everybody knows the main character of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. But how many have read the excellent novel? |
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Holiday reading: a teenager chooses |
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Teenage eReader Katelin Dolton took 12 books on her Spanish holiday. Some were big books, but there was no extra baggage to pay, and no porter was necessary to hump the books from plane to airport, nor onto the transit bus to her holiday accommodation. How did she do it? The magic of ebooks, of course! |
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Best reading with 1,500 books |
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One of those great treats as a child was discovering at a fair the wonders of a Bran Tub. The bran tub was, in fact, a 44-gallon drum filled with sawdust and presents.
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Holiday reading: The Stranger by Camus ... and more |
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The Stranger, Camus's first novel, is both a brilliantly crafted story and an illustration of Camus's absurdist world view.
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Holiday reading: The Old Man and the Sea |
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Thanks to that great site, Wikipedia, for this clear precis of this very popular story from Hemingway. |
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