'Research's Holiday List' 按 ResearchHolidayList

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If you grow weary of syrupy seasonal music, there's a bit of delightful relief on this CD. (RLE)

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If you love the movie, "A Christmas Story," get a copy of these short stories. Great for reading aloud. Nostalgia abounds. [RLE]

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A fine game for any family gathering (RLE)

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My favourite 'Christmas single'. And now on YouTube you can see the video of a young Greg Lake sitting in the desert in 1974. Dipping in to Wikipedia also reminds us of the song's anti-Vietnam war message, and of the borrowing from Prokofiev. JMacC

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One of the Christmas books which appeared in our house many years ago, and was a struggle to read to a child because the adult readers became overwhelmed by it. Wonderful. JMacC.

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Journey of the Magi (1927): 'I have seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.' Grimly powerful in evoking scarcely comprehended conversion. JMacC

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The Ahlbergs were among our favourites when our children were younger. (LD)

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"snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves." (LD)

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Chrissie Hynde sings about separation and Christmas reunion. Features on the Pretender's Greatest Hits CD. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223960935 (LD)

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It seems I end up seeing some part of this each year as it regularly turns up on TV. Always makes me smile. (LD)