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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Peter Robins

Linklog: Bible theft, slippery Dickens, and more

Kind American readers: your most stolen book is, apparently, the Bible; while ours, as noted on this site before, is a street directory. Who should envy who?

• On the slippery greatness of A Christmas Carol. (The negative side of the argument seems to me overdone, but the positive bit is acute.)

• Further seasonality: a Christmas tree made of books.

When cliches collide. (And yes, I know, before stooping to mock, I should walk a mile through the other fellow's eyes.)

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