Joseph Bottum writes in First Things:"So what’s left? There isn’t a style or a diction I can find to use while writing about Christmas. It all seems so hackneyed, so over-used, so trite. Of course, that never seemed to bother Christmas music, so why should it bother Christmas prose? This year I’m reading to my eight-year-old daughter Charles Dickens, and Dylan Thomas, and the story of that first Christmas in the Bible. And somehow, as she listens, it all seems perfect."
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http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=116
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Washington Post Book Critic on seasonal classics and the shared joy of experienceing them with the kids.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/08/AR2005120801700.html
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