Welcome to Litsy!

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; and things so slight and insignificant that is impossible to add and count ‘em up: what then? The happiness he gives, it‘s quite as great as if it cost a fortune.

The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human maters, and had lost the power for ever.

The chain he drew was clasped about his middle. It was long and wound around him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes,keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.

Christmas tradition, read it every year

Getting into the Christmas spirit.

Who else but the infamous #moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge? 🤑

#SpringIntoReading #Dickens

I love the stories in this book. If you like shorter reads this is the perfect book for the season.

I love Dickens but still haven‘t read his possibly most famous work! It is now on my #tbr stack for #december.

#SeasonsReadings #WinterWonderland

Looove my bookish Christmas gifts. A beautiful edition of A Christmas Carol with pleather binding and a Supernatural purse that looks like a book. Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays ya‘ll! 🎄⛄️❤️ .
•
I‘d love to see your bookish gifts! Tag me in them! ♥️.

📚
#book #bookworm #reading #read #booklover #bibliophile #booknerd #bookish #bookaddict #bookaholic #igreads #reader #bookphotography #booklove #booknerdigans #bookporn #literature #library

Managed to get a beautiful clothbound Dickens Christmas collection online for a great price. It arrived way sooner than expected.

#FaveXmasGhost #christmasCarolBuddyRead #christmasCarolReread Phantom is my pick-I love the drama of a speechless specter who commands the reformation of an inflicted man's soul😜

@KVanRead is doing a buddy read with A Christmas Carol starting next Wednesday. Who‘s in?
#ChristmasCarolBuddyRead

I saw a few Litsy readers posting this book and it looked so beautiful I had to get a copy. I'm going to dive in, after I make myself a coffee that is. 😊

hmmmm think this is the best I could come up with for #BooksandBells, the day 6 prompt for #DecktheShelves- my current holiday read, plus my bell earrings. 📚 🔔🔔

@JoeStalksBeck @Tiffy_Reads

This is probably my favorite beginning to any book. The second paragraph is for real funny.

The 7th grader & I are at Starbucks reading from A Christmas Carol so he can work on his report. #christmasread #studytime

Two more challenges - #DecDays by @Cinfhen and #SeasonsReadings2017 by @RealLifeReading

I've collated some of December's photo challenges for us! #ReindeerReads is hosted by @Jess7, #DecktheShelves is @Tiffy_Reads & @JoeStalksBeck, @writerlibrarian is hosting #survivingdecember & #DickensianDecember is mine (@jenniferw88).

“There are some upon this earth of yours,” returned the Spirit, “who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name , who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”

~Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Merry Christmas, all!

Hello my Listy friends, as we get ready for 2017 I hope you get all the books you want. And I hope your new year is awesome.

Ho! Ho! Ho! #SecretSantaGoesPostal #WinterSolsticeBookExchange day is finally here and boy am I a happy Litten! Thank you so much @TheLondonBookworm ! I absolutely adore my prezzies. Can't wait to sit down with a lovely cuppa in my new mug and dive into some holiday reading by my favorite Victorian author (how'd you guess?😊) The journal will be perfect for a new project...(continued in comments)👇

Set up for gift wrapping - and thus commences the first watch of The Muppets' Christmas Carol #godblessuseveryone

(This is the best adaptation of A Christmas Carol, ever.)

I've seen so many film versions, but I've never actually read A Christmas Carol. 😳 Seems like a good time to start! And I didn't know Dickens had two other Christmas stories. Has anyone read The Chimes or The Cricket on the Hearth?