Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

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If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. How the world finally caught up with Jeanette Winterson". Penguin Books. 26 August 2019. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019 . Retrieved 4 September 2019. Inspiring, accessible… books like this one, which break down complex computing and philosophical ideas into punchy, often beautiful prose (‘poetical science’), are necessary… Winterson’s most impassioned message is that we must learn from the past to learn from our mistakes.”— Airmail

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Does it matter who actually tendered this seasonal olive branch, given that the visit was a disaster in any case? Yet the inconsistency feels significant, because this book is as much about healing and forgiveness as it is about fairytale cruelty to children. Winterson’s chapter for New Year’s Eve considers Christmas as a time of reflection – there’s a recipe for cheese crispies to aid the process – in which she notes: “Memory isn’t an archive. Even a simple memory is a cluster … our memories change as we do.” Winterson's 2012 novella The Daylight Gate, based on the 1612 Pendle Witch Trials, appeared on their 400th anniversary. Its main character, Alice Nutter, is based on the real-life woman of the same name. The Guardian's Sarah Hall describes the work: There’s a haunted house and a SnowMama. There are Yuletides and holly wreaths. Three Kings. And a merry little Christmas time.I hate the taste and texture of cooked cheese, but Winterson’s attitude to the change of year is inspirational. There's a haunted house and a SnowMama. There are Yuletides and holly wreaths. Three Kings. And a merry little Christmas time. A clever comic romp that teases at the nature–and future–of life, death and what it is to be human, without ever being ponderous”¦ [ Frankissstein is] first-rate.”— Daily Mail Spellbinding… artfully structured, unexpectedly funny, and impressively dynamic.”— Elena Sheppard, Los Angeles Review of Books

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The Lion, The Unicorn and me, a humorous telling of the birth of Jesus, narrated by the donkey who carried Mary. This may well be the only Christmas book I read this season, and of so I am glad I chose this one. I loved every single story, though of course I had a few favorites.

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Maya Jaggi (29 May 2004). "Saturday Review: Profile: Jeanette Winterson". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013 . Retrieved 4 December 2008. She moves from the profundity and beauty of " An angel, fast as thought and bright as hope, turning eternity into time" to satirical regret that cooking has become like cycling (requiring unnecessary and expensive equipment, and being too competitive), rather than being appreciated as " an everyday ordinary miracle". That sort of segue is typical of this book. My dad opened the door dressed in a knitted waistcoat and matching knitted tie. The whole house had been re-knitted. Seven stories, including a couple of prizewinners, from an exuberantly talented young Thai-American writer.