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Originally Posted by Catlady
There's an excellent book by Stephen Nissenbaum titled The Battle for Christmas, which is about how the traditions and rituals and images of the holiday evolved, from colonial times. It was serious without being stuffy, and quite fascinating. I believe it was published in the mid-1990s.
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This sound really interesting!! I'm going to have to read it for sure.
As far as Hogfather goes, I don't ordinarily do fantasy but am going to make an exception here. That sounds hilarious. And the cover really attracted me.
Most everything else mentioned so far, I have already read. I do appreciate all the suggestions and some of this stuff I had forgotten about and will want to read again.
I also had no idea that Dickens wrote 5 Christmas books!! This is exciting knowledge that I will be taking advantage of asap.