Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.
This is a rare occasion for me. I’m sort of starting at the beginning of the Christmas season. So I tried to figure out what I could that would fit in the allotted time. There isn’t a lot. Not counting this and Christmas day itself I only have two Mondays. A shorter book is required but nothing decent is really that short. I thought about my schedule, knowing I needed time to finish (hopefully) my Christmas superhero comic, Captain Yuletide. I actually considered using Saturday as a bonus day since I was not going to be doing “Yesterday’s” Comic until after the holiday for the same reason. That would mean STILL taking up time I need for the comic.
Then I came up with what I need, once I figured out what I’m going to read. My choice is only five “staves” long, so I could do that the last week of Christmas, free up even more time to finish my minicomic on time, and still have a Christmas themed Chapter By Chapter. That brings us to this year’s book of choice. The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus is one I’d like to read but that would take up all of December and I’m not prepared to give up the whole month and still lose out. I’ll have to figure out how to tackle that in the future. Other choices are children’s books and thus really short. I’m not sure how to tackle them. Then I checked into my first choice and found it’s rather easy to do even though the chapters are a bit long. I can auto-schedule them for Christmas week and not worry about them. So this year, and for the twenty-second book in the Chapter By Chapter review series, it’s time for a timeless classic that’s been adapted, homaged, sequeled, and re-imagined to death and yet rarely gets as old as its protagonist. Set your clocks for midnight because we’re reading…
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