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My book club decided to read this as our December book. As I started it I realized I’d never actually
read this before; just seen a lot of movies about it.
I think this was one of Charles Dickens best books. It’s short, only 90 pages and easy to read. But the descriptions are amazing and once
again the characters he creates from ghosts to Tiny Tim are extremely well
written and memorable.
Here’s Dicken’s first description of Scrooge: “Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone,
Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching,
grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” Here is the description of Scrooge at the
end of the story; “he became as good a friend, as a good a master, and as a
good a man, as the good old city knew.” You already know what happened to him in
between those two descriptions to bring about the change in him.
I encourage you to read the story again or for the first
time. May we all learn to keep Christmas well. And a
Tiny Tim would say, God Bless us, every one!
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