The Shelf Life
Showing posts with label chimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chimes. Show all posts
Monday, December 08, 2008

'Twas the Night Before Dickens

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The world of Charles Dickens, in the popular imagination of our day, is little more than a Victorian Christmas card; plump ladies in funny ...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

I hear "The Chimes" at midnight yet again...

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Every year at the bookstore, I read Truman Capote's little sentimental masterpiece, "A Christmas Memory" aloud, to celebrate ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I will NOT buy another book about Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, or Scrooge... okay, I did.

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In the long list of Things I Intend Never to Do Again -- updated almost weekly nowadays -- there are some activities precluded by encroachin...
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