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A Christmas Carol (Macmillan Collector's Library)
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bookshelves: classics-i-ve-read
Dec 03, 2019
bookshelves: classics-i-ve-read
Read 4 times. Last read December 3, 2022 to December 18, 2022.
Yet another re-read:
As amazing as ever! One of Dickens’ very best, I think! ❤️
Re-read:
Still my favorite Christmas story! Charles Dickens never ceases to make me smile and feel a multitude of emotions!
🥰🎄❄️
First Read:
Wonderful! Absolutely Wonderful!!🕯️📖🎄
I don't know why it has taken me so long to read this story! I also don't know why it has taken me this long to read anything by Charles Dickens!
It surpassed my expectations, because ironically they weren't great...😉
The concept and idea behind this story is brilliant! It surprised me with it's cleverness and wit, even though I went into it knowing the story so well. I just fell in love with Dickens' storytelling, especially when he would address the reader and make his narrative voice known! 🖋️
His commentary on Victorian life and his social criticisms are known to be key aspects of his books, and I can now attest to that fact!
I loved how he described the different holiday scenes and made them vivid with life and magic!
The supernatural elements involving the spirits is pure genius!
Overall, I couldn't get over how in just a few chapters, and what people call a short story, he included so many important elements including the greatest character development in all of literature!! ❄️
This story is a blessing right from the hands of Tiny Tim and Ebenezer Scrooge! 💕
As amazing as ever! One of Dickens’ very best, I think! ❤️
Re-read:
Still my favorite Christmas story! Charles Dickens never ceases to make me smile and feel a multitude of emotions!
🥰🎄❄️
First Read:
Wonderful! Absolutely Wonderful!!🕯️📖🎄
I don't know why it has taken me so long to read this story! I also don't know why it has taken me this long to read anything by Charles Dickens!
It surpassed my expectations, because ironically they weren't great...😉
The concept and idea behind this story is brilliant! It surprised me with it's cleverness and wit, even though I went into it knowing the story so well. I just fell in love with Dickens' storytelling, especially when he would address the reader and make his narrative voice known! 🖋️
His commentary on Victorian life and his social criticisms are known to be key aspects of his books, and I can now attest to that fact!
I loved how he described the different holiday scenes and made them vivid with life and magic!
The supernatural elements involving the spirits is pure genius!
Overall, I couldn't get over how in just a few chapters, and what people call a short story, he included so many important elements including the greatest character development in all of literature!! ❄️
This story is a blessing right from the hands of Tiny Tim and Ebenezer Scrooge! 💕
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Quotes Carolyn Marie Liked
“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
Reading Progress
May 12, 2018
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to-read
May 12, 2018
– Shelved
December 2, 2019
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Started Reading
December 3, 2019
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Finished Reading
December 18, 2019
– Shelved as:
classics-i-ve-read
December 14, 2020
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Started Reading
December 14, 2020
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Finished Reading
December 31, 2021
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Started Reading
December 31, 2021
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Finished Reading
December 3, 2022
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Started Reading
December 18, 2022
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Finished Reading
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Nov 23, 2020 03:03PM
My favorite book!
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I think Russian novelists are better, but the book wasn't bad. Any book in the top 100 isn't bad.
One of my favourite books!
Possibly above all others, this is most deserving of a reread! Wonderful review, Carolyn!
Claire, you ought to see the movie from 2017, "The Man who Invented Christmas" if you enjoy this book.
What an amazing review! This puts my "it was great" review to shame. 😊 This marked the first time I read it from cover-to-cover. I have started it numerous times during this season but never found the time to finish it. It may have helped to have a physical copy this time, I was gifted it for Christmas.
