pickThis book has no right to be as fun and as thoughtful as it is. And look at that utterly lovely cover. Full review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404829354
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pickThis book has no right to be as fun and as thoughtful as it is. And look at that utterly lovely cover. Full review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404829354
pickSo good!!!!
December was the hardest favorite to choose. I had six five star reads.
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so-so⭐️⭐️⭐️As a huge fan of Krampus and all the stories around this legend, I was looking forward to this one. I did love how Brom wove all@the bits of lore surrounding Krampus from other parts of the world, but the story itself felt a bit forced. It was ok. This was badly in need of an editor cause it was way too long. I found if getting repetitive. If it was buttoned up tighter, I would have loved it instead of just liked it enough.
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Krampus and witches and other Christmas creatures, oh my! I really love reading about other countries traditions and learning about the origins of them.
pickThis was a fascinating read about some of the creepier early Christmas traditions and folklore that dissapeared from the holiday for many around the time of the Victorians. Clegg covered lore from Krampus to the Icelandic Christmas Witch Gryla, debunking myths about the origins of many of these figures along the way. I thoroughly enjoyed learning more about the history of these holiday traditions and would absolutely read more in a similar vein.
At the airport waiting to fly home and I've been alternating between the tagged book and the audiobook of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. #CozyChristmas
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️if you‘re a fan of folk horror or where these amazing stories about Krampus, mummers, waissling or other pagan rituals began, follow Susan Clegg around Europe, Iceland and Nordic countries as she learns the origin stories. Good stuff. I like my Christmas dark.
pick4.5/5
This was an incredibly interesting book about the history of Christmas monsters and ghosts from how they came to become folklore to their ongoing evolution and popularity. This wasn't something I had thought about much before, but I found it so interesting to find out what we know about these stories origins and what the can tell us about how Christmas, and midwinter in general, was celebrated historically in Europe.
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