10 books with a New Year’s mood
Three more weeks before the holidays, but I want a New Year’s mood now. By the way, it is different: you can tremble in anticipation of good miracles, laugh until you fall in a circle of friends, and you can wait for dangerous adventures and tremble with anticipation, as in childhood.
Here is a list of 10 books that will help you prepare for miracles:
1. Terry Pratchett - "Santa Hryakus"
In the Flat World, too, the Passion is celebrated, and Santa Claus brings gifts to children. But who can replace him if he suddenly disappears? Well, work is work. It doesn’t matter that the staff looks suspiciously like a scythe, and Santa Hryakus himself looks like a skeleton (literally) and pale as Death. A book with sparkling humor and funny characters. Ho-ho-ho. Merry Christmas!
2. Justin Gorder - "Christmas Mystery"
This is a fascinating book and calendar. Norway has a tradition of buying Christmas calendars. From December 1, every day children open a small window in the calendar, behind which are hidden chocolates and toys. Every day with the new chapter of the book you will learn how Christmas and our New Year have become as we know and love them.
3. Fanny Flagg - "Christmas and the Red Cardinal"
Frightened by the medical diagnosis, Oswald runs south to the hospitable Lost Creek to celebrate his last Christmas. Life in the town is measured and at the same time strange. This is a warm Christmas tale, full of ordinary magic, which many can afford. A book for all who longed for a kind word and a beautiful story.
4. Christopher Moore - "The stupidest angel" The
city is buzzing in anticipation of Christmas. And only Lena is unhappy - she accidentally shoveled her ex-husband in Santa’s suit. Little Josh decided that Santa was real, and prayed for a miracle. The author calls the book "a touching tale of a Christmas nightmare." An explosive mix of horror, sparkling humor and Christmas miracles that can happen to anyone.
5. Joe Hill - "Country of Christmas"
Festive horror from the son of Stephen King. Since childhood, Victoria McQueen was able to find lost things. At the age of 13, she ran away from home and met Charles Manks, a psychopath who takes Rolls-Royce children from the real world to their imagination, the Land of Christmas, where they become something. A book about the fact that once the onset of the holiday could mean the arrival of the terrible.
6. Fedor Dostoevsky - "The boy at Christ’s Christmas tree"
On the eve of the magical holiday, the poor boy wanders the streets and looks out the windows, where the heat and light pours and where the elegant Christmas trees stand. The boy is forced to freeze on the cold streets of St. Petersburg, hungry, abandoned to fate. The baby is sorry to tears, but he is lucky: he will still get on the Christmas tree.
7. Daniel Glattauer - "Christmas Dog"
Max can not stand Christmas, so he decides to flee to the Maldives. But he is disturbed by his dog Kurt, who has no one to leave with. And Catherine turns 30. On Christmas Eve, her parents can not accept the fact that her daughter has not yet found a husband. And then Kurt appears on the horizon with his strange master. Here it is - a holiday love story.
8. Nikolai Gogol - "The Night Before Christmas" The
world froze in anticipation of the great holiday, and people and all sorts of evil are rejoicing from the heart. This night, an ordinary woman shows a witch’s essence, a village blacksmith can fly to the queen and the queen to the capital, and an arrogant beauty - suddenly fall in love with a nice, though simple guy. Miracles happen in the world tonight.
9. Charles Dickens - "Christmas Stories"
Charming, sad and funny tales for adults. Beneath the funny stories about ghosts, sinners, miracles and honest poor people, there is a deep psychologism and cleverly twisted intrigue. "Christmas stories" will always be read while the snow falls and the Christmas tree lights up.
10. Ernst Hoffmann - "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"
The story of the Nutcracker fascinates and inspires us for 200 years. It is about believing in a miracle, the same that lives in each of us. So, one day a long-awaited heir was born in the royal family, but because of a quarrel with the Mouse Queen, the beautiful prince turns into an ugly Nutcracker, whose destiny is to prick nuts and wait. Wait until the clock strikes 12 times.
Here is a list of 10 books that will help you prepare for miracles:
1. Terry Pratchett - "Santa Hryakus"
In the Flat World, too, the Passion is celebrated, and Santa Claus brings gifts to children. But who can replace him if he suddenly disappears? Well, work is work. It doesn’t matter that the staff looks suspiciously like a scythe, and Santa Hryakus himself looks like a skeleton (literally) and pale as Death. A book with sparkling humor and funny characters. Ho-ho-ho. Merry Christmas!
2. Justin Gorder - "Christmas Mystery" This is a fascinating book and calendar. Norway has a tradition of buying Christmas calendars. From December 1, every day children open a small window in the calendar, behind which are hidden chocolates and toys. Every day with the new chapter of the book you will learn how Christmas and our New Year have become as we know and love them.
3. Fanny Flagg - "Christmas and the Red Cardinal"
Frightened by the medical diagnosis, Oswald runs south to the hospitable Lost Creek to celebrate his last Christmas. Life in the town is measured and at the same time strange. This is a warm Christmas tale, full of ordinary magic, which many can afford. A book for all who longed for a kind word and a beautiful story.
4. Christopher Moore - "The stupidest angel" The city is buzzing in anticipation of Christmas. And only Lena is unhappy - she accidentally shoveled her ex-husband in Santa’s suit. Little Josh decided that Santa was real, and prayed for a miracle. The author calls the book "a touching tale of a Christmas nightmare." An explosive mix of horror, sparkling humor and Christmas miracles that can happen to anyone.
5. Joe Hill - "Country of Christmas"
Festive horror from the son of Stephen King. Since childhood, Victoria McQueen was able to find lost things. At the age of 13, she ran away from home and met Charles Manks, a psychopath who takes Rolls-Royce children from the real world to their imagination, the Land of Christmas, where they become something. A book about the fact that once the onset of the holiday could mean the arrival of the terrible.
6. Fedor Dostoevsky - "The boy at Christ’s Christmas tree"
On the eve of the magical holiday, the poor boy wanders the streets and looks out the windows, where the heat and light pours and where the elegant Christmas trees stand. The boy is forced to freeze on the cold streets of St. Petersburg, hungry, abandoned to fate. The baby is sorry to tears, but he is lucky: he will still get on the Christmas tree.
7. Daniel Glattauer - "Christmas Dog"
Max can not stand Christmas, so he decides to flee to the Maldives. But he is disturbed by his dog Kurt, who has no one to leave with. And Catherine turns 30. On Christmas Eve, her parents can not accept the fact that her daughter has not yet found a husband. And then Kurt appears on the horizon with his strange master. Here it is - a holiday love story.
8. Nikolai Gogol - "The Night Before Christmas" The world froze in anticipation of the great holiday, and people and all sorts of evil are rejoicing from the heart. This night, an ordinary woman shows a witch’s essence, a village blacksmith can fly to the queen and the queen to the capital, and an arrogant beauty - suddenly fall in love with a nice, though simple guy. Miracles happen in the world tonight.
9. Charles Dickens - "Christmas Stories" Charming, sad and funny tales for adults. Beneath the funny stories about ghosts, sinners, miracles and honest poor people, there is a deep psychologism and cleverly twisted intrigue. "Christmas stories" will always be read while the snow falls and the Christmas tree lights up.
10. Ernst Hoffmann - "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"
The story of the Nutcracker fascinates and inspires us for 200 years. It is about believing in a miracle, the same that lives in each of us. So, one day a long-awaited heir was born in the royal family, but because of a quarrel with the Mouse Queen, the beautiful prince turns into an ugly Nutcracker, whose destiny is to prick nuts and wait. Wait until the clock strikes 12 times.