Sunday, December 14, 2025

Happy Hannukah



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A Mystery at Christmas


Hunter Gatherer Nicholas Bate has just given a helpful nudge. 

In addition to nonfiction, I've been slow-reading A Christmas Carol by the incomparable Dickens and In My Father's Court by the always excellent Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Nicholas recommends a Sherlock Holmes mystery.

Great idea!

[And, as the above trailer shows, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot also had some Christmas episodes.]

Find Something Beautiful Today



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Friday, December 12, 2025

The Christmas Movie Debate



Here's a list of contenders. Which ones are your top three picks?

  1. A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott
  2. A Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen.
  3. The Bishop's Wife
  4. Die Hard
  5. A Christmas Story
  6. Charlie Brown's Christmas
  7. Love Actually
  8. How The Grinch Stole Christmas
  9. Miracle on 34th Street
  10. It's a Wonderful Life
  11. Scrooge
  12. The Polar Express
  13. Home Alone
  14. Elf
  15. Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
  16. The Muppets Christmas Carol
  17. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  18. Scrooged
  19. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
  20. Planes Trains and Automobiles
  21. The Man Who Invented Christmas
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Very Nice and Much Appreciated



Julian Summerhayes is reading poetry on Substack.


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