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Advent Calendar
Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay, Shena McKay
10 posts | 1 read | 5 to read
An Advent Calendar opens on the sights and sounds of an ambulance arriving at the scene after a man chops his finger off at a butcher shop. A hapless customer, John, who takes home an order of minced beef to his ailing Uncle Cecil, is overwhelmed with guilt and horror when the butcher arrives at his door looking for the missing finger. John, who is out of work, his wife Marguerite, and their two young children move in with Uncle Cecil and the adults struggle to find equilibrium and satisfaction in lives filled with longing and unfulfilled dreams. Marguerite has a brief affair, an escape from the seemingly relentless poverty and boredom of her life. Her lover, Aaron, arrives at her back door one night after everyone has gone to bed. Marguerite's young daughter, Emily, walks into the kitchen where they sit drinking and smoking. Uncle Cecil lives in squalor with a goat out back. John's sister, Elizabeth, a schoolteacher, befriends a troubled student, Joy, who is seduced while baby-sitting for a middle-aged poet. The story takes place during the twenty-four days of December that are depicted in dime-store advent calendars. It culminates at Christmas, not exactly with a Hollywood ending that rights all wrongs, but with redemption and absolution, as is sufficient unto the season.
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BarkingMadRead
BarkingMadRead
An Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay
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As the mom of the house in charge of everyone else‘s gifts, I started getting myself advent calendars each year 🤣 has anyone gotten any cool bookish advent calendars? Looking for suggestions!

kspenmoll 🩷 3w
AnnCrystal 😍👍💝. (edited) 3w
dabbe I don't know if you like jigsaw puzzles, but there are a lot of cool jigsaw calendars I saw on Amazon. Every day there's a certain part to put together. 🩵❄️🩵 3w
Sharpeipup @dabbe we gifted that to my MIL and she loved it 3w
dabbe @Sharpeipup 🤎🍁🧡 2w
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ravenlee
ravenlee
An Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay
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The top two are already gone, but this is our book advent calendar! It‘s a mix of mostly Christmas favorites and some new books (this year mostly continuing series we‘ve gotten behind in).

kspenmoll What fun! 12mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 12mo
LittlePixels I love this! 12mo
Hooked_on_books That‘s awesome! 😍 12mo
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peanutnine
peanutnine
Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay, Shena McKay
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#DecemberDreams Day 1 #Advent
I don't have this advent calendar but it looks so fun! I got the ultimate reading challenge from this company last year and the goodies were so great! 📚
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs #WinterGames #SantasBookshELVES

Roary47 Ooo that looks fun 😍 12mo
Eggs Beautiful ❤️💚❤️ 12mo
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Lizpixie
Lizpixie
Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay, Shena McKay
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#DecemberDreams #Day1 #Advent I would love this advent calendar one year! So Santa, I‘ve been a good girl this year!🙏 #TeamEvergreen 6pts

tagged users iconClwojick, Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks This looks cool!! 12mo
Eggs Looks wonderful ❤️📚💚 12mo
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Kshakal
Kshakal
An Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay
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I got the babies their own advent calendar this year!

JenReadsAlot Cute! 2y
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BethM
BethM
An Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay
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Another #holidaytradition growing up was our advent calendar. Ours was simple and you just moved a character each day. Wes is building a nativity and loves it! #wintergames #teamgamesleighers @StayCurious

BookBabe How cute is this! 😍 I grew up with advent calendars too but it was the chocolate ones. Where can I get one? 3y
BookBabe I answered my own question ha ha. 😄 I searched on Amazon and found it right away. 3y
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ravenlee
ravenlee
An Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay
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I didn‘t get much reading time this weekend - lots of cooking/cleaning/various projects for everybody else. One of those was wrapping the kiddo‘s book advent calendar, a combination of Christmas favorites and new goodies. Now she‘s anxious to start unwrapping!

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LeahBergen
LeahBergen
Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay, Shena McKay
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Thank you so much for the wonderful #JolabokaflodSwap gifts, @ShelleyBooksie !

I‘m absolutely delighted that you chose a relatively obscure book from my TBR (👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻) to send to me and the chocolate is one of my faves. Happy Holidays to you! 😘

Thank you to @MaleficentBookDragon for all the hard work that went into this simple and lovely swap. 😘

ShelleyBooksie Yay!! I am so glad that you like my choice :) 5y
LeahBergen @ShelleyBooksie It‘s absolutely perfect! 😍😍 5y
thegirlwiththelibrarybag I love the cover! 5y
MaleficentBookDragon 🎅 🤶🎁🎄🍫 📚 Happy #Jolakabodflod 5y
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teebe
teebe
An Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay
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This is the closest thing to an advent calendar in my house: I buy festive dog treats and my dog (and my siblings‘ dogs if they‘re around) get one treat per day. This year is pumpkin pie, and turkey-cranberry treats, and I popped them in a fun cookie box. #WinterGames #TeamFestivus #FestivePhotoChallenge

tagged users iconwanderinglynn, Clwojick, StayCurious
wanderinglynn Super cute idea! 👍🏻⛄️🐶🎄 1 pt participation 5y
Clwojick Adorable ♥️ 5y
Linsy So cute! 5y
teebe @wanderinglynn just saw your comment on slack. This is also a #HolidayTradition 5y
wanderinglynn I added 20pts! 👍🏻⛄️ 5y
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Moray_Reads
Moray_Reads
Advent Calendar | Shena Mackay, Shena McKay
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Wow, the humour is black as tar in this one. Shena MacKay creates a brilliantly textured story of people struggling to make ends meet and paints a grubby but affectionate picture of north London. There's not much Christmas cheer but there are plenty of dark chuckles

LeahBergen I just read the blurb ... it sounds fantastic! 😆 6y
batsy Yes, what a blurb! 6y
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