Here are the top 10 on my Goodreads Up-Next List:11 Memories from Christmastide throughout your life (4th January)There are 25 on that list and 97 titles on the To-Read. I'm never, EVER, going to catch up!
- Perfect Escape - Jennifer Brown
- Trapeze - Simon Mawer
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - Ben Fountain
- The Fear Index - Robert Harris
- The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen - Thomas Caplan
- Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
- Five Days at Memorial - Sheri Fink
- Tenth of December - George Saunders
- Fosse - Sam Wasson
- With or Without You - Domenica Ruta
These are purely random.
- The Christmas of the Barbie Dream House
- The Christmas I Got the Flu AND a Sickroom Visit From My Dad
- The Clothes Christmas (no toys, nothing fun---it was either the year before or the year after the Barbie Dream House)
- The Christmas I Got No Books (Beast never did that again!)
- The Christmas of Revere-ware
- The Christmas of 1994 (two family funerals the month prior to December 25)
- Sparky's Third Christmas (his grandparents sent so much that he actually got bored with opening presents...smh)
- The Christmas Katherine Went Gonzo
- The Christmas I got a The Huge Box (it was big enough to be my coffin ... filled with newspapers and bricks--with a record album taped inconspicuously to one side)
- The Christmas When Death Trumped Both an Emergency Hospitalization and a Ransacked Hotel Room
- The First Christmas My Mother Ever Spent Away From (her) Home (at age 50-something)
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I've read #6--I don't think I could read #7, it seems too intense for me.
I don't have as many Christmas memories as you do... mine all blend together in blandness (which isn't a bad thing).
It took me awhile to disentangle the 13 I listed, but the Years of Death were pretty memorable in their lack of memorability. I don't actually remember Christmas itself either of those years.
I may end up just skimming ...Memorial--it will be pretty dismal, you're right.
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