Would you like to add some fun holiday-themed mysteries to your reading pleasure? Do you have mystery lovers on your gift list? These wonderful titles, written by my fellow Sisters In Crime members, will fill your stockings with delightful, and sometimes diabolical, entertainment.
Tag: Christmas
Nostalgia
When we are old, life seems to go from Christmas to Christmas. The years in between holiday seasons rush by faster and faster, a blur of color and sound. We look forward to what remains, and behind to what has been. What is behind stretches out in vivid detail, with Christmases standing out like the bright lights on the tree of life. What lies ahead feels frighteningly brief, as we know how fast those Christmases will follow one up on another until we, too, become stars in the sky.
My Annual Read: A Christmas Carol
If you have yet to read Scrooge’s story in the original … please do. It is an experience that everyone needs to enjoy, if only so they can watch the next movie version and say, “That’s not how it happened in the book!”
It’s That Time Of Year Again
…the speed with which the years pass grows more and more daunting as I age. Now well into my 7th decade, it seems like I’ve just finished putting the Christmas decorations away, and I’m having to think about getting them out again. I can remember the youthful days when a year actually felt like a year.
Gayle Nastasi 