I love reading Christmas stories in December. It puts me in the holiday mood all month long. I found Skipping Christmas at a library book sale and thought that a Christmas book by John Grisham has to be good. I thought this would be a fun book for the December Online Book Club.
Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without a rooftop Frosty the snowman; they won’t be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren’t even going to have a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’re setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences – and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined.A classic tale for modern times, Skipping Christmas offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that has become part of our holiday tradition.
Plan to join us in the discussion of Skipping Christmas on December 27 here on the blog and on Facebook.
