{"id":2373,"date":"2016-12-21T21:24:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2020-03-12T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T06:48:21","slug":"best-books-festive-season-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/best-books-festive-season-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Lists : Ten Best Books for Festive Season Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"
What qualifies as a festive read? To me it is a book that is filled with warmth, to be nibbled under heavy blankets while sipping a hot cup of cocoa. These are stories that make you happy and satisfied; the kind that gives you good dreams and good cheer. Here are a few festive reads! Grab a cup of your favourite hot drink and read on.<\/p>\n
Christmas stories is a collection of short stories related to the holiday season, penned down by some of the best writers. There is a story by Dickens mentioned in the Pickwick Papers<\/em> in which goblins make a hard hearted man repent. A\u00a0love-struck ghost disrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowen’s Green Holly<\/em>; the devil steals the moon and tries to tries to wreck a love story between the town blacksmith and the girl he loves in \u00a0The Night Before Christmas<\/em> (read more about the story here<\/a><\/span>) and the plight of the less fortunate is portrayed in\u00a0Chekhov’s Vanka<\/em> and Willa Cather’s The Burglar’s Christmas<\/em>.<\/p>\n