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This book and I have a history. It's one of the few novels I've read which was actually in current circulation at the time that I did so. It's also the understated British countryside mystery which convinced me that the inspector read

This book has pizzazz and pep, plus a charming knack of combining 'tech' with tradition. AND the illustrations are far better than many I see floating around nowadays. Here are some things I learned: 1) Santa Claus is a really smart guy. 2) Reindeer love tinsel. And 3) instead of selfies, elves take 'elfies.'

I'm hoping my grandchildren will love it!

. . . "we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Erbrow] reflected that what is important is not things, but the meaning we give to things. Sooner or later death comes for everyone. More important than putting off death, is giving it a meaning.

For the first time in a dozen years the stars were coming out above him, in great processions of wheeling fire. He saw a great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and threaten to roll over and crush him. Pg. 124
But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing. Pg. 137