It has become a tradition for me to read at least one book during the advent time that deals with the Christmas topic. I started with some collections of german Christmas short stories by well-known authors years ago, then in 04 I read John Grisham’s “Skipping christmas” – a very funny book whose  movie version – as I heard – was not good at all. Then, in 05, Jonathan Franzen’s “The Corrections” followed. This is probably not really a Christmas book but it involves a  Christmas family meeting. Admittingly this very big book wasn’t finished by me so far.

So, now, in 06, it is David Baldacci’s  “The Christmas train” that I picked out. The story involves a journalist, a train ride and of course – Christmas.