Review: A Lot Like Christmas

A Lot Like Christmas by Connie Willis
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Yesterday (Nov 27) I was amazed that I hadn't read Miracle many times. But today I have no trouble believing it. "Miracle" I remembered only a few aspects of, forgetting most of the plot. "All About Emily" and "Inn" same. "All Seated on the Ground" I had confused with something else entirely. The only thing that my memory seems really valid on is how great these are: Willis is great at screwball comedy, at poignant drama, at empathy, really.

I figure it can go immediately on the Beloved shelf since I've read much of it already. But the newer material is really good, too!

***

Even though I have only managed to finish the introduction in a week of picking this up, and then having to do, or look up, something or speak to someone because the holidays are like that, I have managed to read several of the stories she lists in the beginning. Just now I finished Saywr's "The Necklace of Pearls," which doesn't have its own entry in GR, and thus, doesn't get its own review blurb.

**

20 January 2926

Library copy

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