Have you started your holiday reading yet? No? Well, here's one to add to your list - The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge by Charlie Lovett. (And I have a copy to giveaway as well as a bonus book!)
You read that right - further adventures. Lovett imagines what might have occurred after Scrooge was visited by the three ghosts and changed his outlook on Christmas - and life - in Charles Dickens' book A Christmas Carol.
Well, Scrooge is celebrating year round - wishing everyone he meets a Merry Christmas each day of the year. But those who benefitted from Scrooge's change of heart twenty years ago have also lost their way. Partner Bob Cratchit is a workaholic, nephew Freddie ignores the plight of those around him and Scrooge's creditors can't see the human side of his largess, only the debts. So one summer's day, Scrooge calls upon the ghosts to help them as they did him so many years ago.
Lovett writes in the style of Dickens (sometimes employing phrasing and referencing Dickens' other works) to recreate the tenor, tone and message of A Christmas Carol.
The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge is a lovely reminder that "...scores and hundreds understood the ways of wealth and money and even of philanthropy, but their hearts lacked the true wealth of love, of family, of Christmas joy, which, he now saw, might have been theirs all the year round."
The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge is a quick little one night read - here's an excerpt. Guaranteed to put you in the holiday spirit - hopefully year round! You can connect with Charlie Lovett on his website as well as on Facebook and on Twitter.
And thanks to Viking Books, I have a copy of The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge AND A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens to giveaway to one lucky reader. Enter using the Rafflecopter form below. Open to US only, no PO boxes please. Ends November 28/15.
8 comments:
Sounds like just the book to put you in the holiday spirit.
My favorite Dickens book is David Copperfield. Thanks for this lovely giveaway. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
David Copperfield first Dickens I read still my favorite.
It does look like a good holiday read! My first Dickens was Great Expectations, but I think my favorite is Bleak House. Thanks!
The only other Dickens I've read is Oliver Twist and I didn't enjoy that as much as A Christmas Carol. Thanks for the chance to win Charlie Lovett's latest.
It's a tie between Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. And if Charlie Lovett wrote it this book has to be fantastic. Thanks for another great giveaway.
Oliver Twist is the only one that I have actually read and I didn't love it. I've liked all of the film versions of A Christmas Carol that I have seen, so I think I would enjoy reading it.
David Copperfield is definitely my fave and one of the best novels I've read, but I've only read a few Dickens works so far. Thanks for this great opportunity, Luanne! Cheers, Kara S
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