Showing posts with label A Christmas Carol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Christmas Carol. Show all posts
Friday, December 26, 2025

Fellow-Passengers to the Grave by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Fellow-Passengers to the Grave by Karen S. Wiesner   I've spent the last several years trying to find exactly the right word to descri...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

In the Bleak Midwinter

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Merry Christmas! Recommended: A 2024 book about the dark side of the winter holidays, THE DEAD OF WINTER, by Sarah Clegg, subtitled "...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Karen S. Wiesner {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: "The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge" by Charlie Lovett

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: "The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge" by Charlie Lovett by Karen S. Wies...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Beware Ignorance and Want by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Beware Ignorance and Want by Karen S. Wiesner     From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens:  They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagr...
Friday, November 22, 2024

Daily Thanksgiving by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Daily Thanksgiving by Karen S. Wiesner     “Be curious, not judgmental.”  ~Marguerite and Marshall Shearer   I read something recently abo...
Friday, December 22, 2023

The Practice of Benevolence {A Reflection on Dickens' A Christmas Carol} by Karen S. Wiesner

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The Practice of Benevolence {A Reflection on Dickens' A Christmas Carol } by Karen S. Wiesner One of my all-time favorite storie...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

On Character Growth

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There's an essay on the WRITER'S DIGEST website called "The Importance of Character Growth in Fiction," by bestselling aut...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Posthumous Unfinished Writings and Whether Characters Have a Life of Their Own

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Last week I read TERRY PRATCHETT: A LIFE WITH FOOTNOTES, by Rob Wilkins, who worked as the Discworld creator's personal assistant for ma...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Modernizing Scrooge

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Many of Shakespeare's plays have been transmuted into modern settings, such as WEST SIDE STORY (from ROMEO AND JULIET), SHE'S THE MA...