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A review by pinkalpaca
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers by Mary Ward Brown, Tim McLaurin, Tim Gautreaux, Julia Ridley Smith, Charline R. McCord, Richard Ford, Valerie Sayers, Lee Smith, Donna Tartt, Fred Chappell, Robert Olen Butler
3.0
The writing and the stories were all very good, but this is like a southern gothic collection, in that almost all of them are major bummers.
~This Charmed Day by Tim McLaurin, 4*: Really sweet Christmas memories
~Deputy Sid's Gift by Tim Gautreaux, 3*: Writing is pretty good, but what a downer
~New Dresses by Mary Ward Brown, 3*: Same as the last
~Creche by Richard Ford, 4*: Excellent writing, can't tell where this one is going
~A Christmas Pageant by Donna Tartt, 4*
~The Ayatollah of Due East by Valerie Sayers, 4*
~Snow by Robert Olen Butler, 4*
~The Holiday House by Julia Ridley Smith, 3*
~Peaceful was the Night by Fred Chappell, 4*
~Angels Passing by Lee Smith, 3*
~This Charmed Day by Tim McLaurin, 4*: Really sweet Christmas memories
~Deputy Sid's Gift by Tim Gautreaux, 3*: Writing is pretty good, but what a downer
~New Dresses by Mary Ward Brown, 3*: Same as the last
~Creche by Richard Ford, 4*: Excellent writing, can't tell where this one is going
~A Christmas Pageant by Donna Tartt, 4*
~The Ayatollah of Due East by Valerie Sayers, 4*
~Snow by Robert Olen Butler, 4*
~The Holiday House by Julia Ridley Smith, 3*
~Peaceful was the Night by Fred Chappell, 4*
~Angels Passing by Lee Smith, 3*