IT'S A CHRISTMAS CAREWELL TO ARMS! ( 🗣️@laurenmkaras )

My actual books may still be packed away but December's @wordsjustwannahavefun Book Club Pick™ needs to play!
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This month is a terrible twofer as we break off (I think) our first Hemingway and saying "Farewell!" to 2025 with A FAREWELL TO ARMS!

MONDAY, DEC 29 @ 7PM!

I read this book largely in Galway (😇!) during a particularly rough time (🎭!) and the weather was that rainy, chilly, wet, light and low cloudy kinda air and I feel like the book is the cozy version of that wintry nostalgic cold, gray time! Maybe! I don't remember.

I do remember that I finished it around 2 a.m. in the dark hotel lobby, went upstairs to my room, set it down, looked around, grabbed my coat, and had to go walk around! woof! After a couple fogged miles of serene, sodium streetlight-lit idyllic Irish suburb village I came upon a wooden fenced corral (?!) with ponies! Right next to a stop light! What was that all about!
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And in a holiday b-b-b-b-bOOK CLUB BONUS, Christmas Eve Eve Eve we'll be talking about Charles Dickens' all-time classic, A CHRISTMAS CAROL! Just because I don't think I ever have and I really want to!

MONDAY, DEC 22 @ 7PM!

Did this book essentially event and codify our notion of the traditional contemporary Christmas? Will you be watching Muppet Christmas Carol on repeat all month long? Will I show up on Christmas Eve Eve looking the dead ringer of that last pic?

Seasonal time will tell!

So come, get comfy, get cozy, and – as always (starting now) – GET BOOKED!

See you at the usual spot!

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