Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
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Wartime Christmas
0December 22, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Today’s war-themed window in the Carnegie 2014 Advent Calendar by We Sat Down is my inspiration for this final post of the year. Christmas in wartime tends to be peculiarly poignant – so often dark with separation, and haunted by the ghosts of past celebrations. Ritual is disrupted, and hope can seem fragile. Both That Burning Summer and A World Between Us include not scenes, but memories of Christmas. keep reading
Category News | Tags: 2014 Carnegie Advent, A WORLD BETWEEN US, Beirut, Christmas, Len Crome, Neugass, sherry, War is Beautiful, wartime, We Sat Down
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Christmas stories
0December 7, 2012 by Lydia Syson
This post was written for Hot Key Books ‘9 Days of Christmas’
All my childhood memories of Christmas merge into one indistinct blur: it was always the seventies. It was always grey. It never, ever snowed. And later I keep reading
Category News | Tags: 9 days of Christmas, A Hundred and One Dalmations, Chanukah, Christmas, Dodie Smith, Laura Ingalls Wilder, memories, On the Banks of Plum Creek, Rumer Godden, snow, Special offer, The Story of Holly and Ivy, traditions
