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Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
by Erich Kästner
· published 1933 · read 2001-07-01
★★★★★
It's the one German boarding school novel and I loved it to pieces as a kid. As all Kästner books except for Lottchen it features a transparent self-insert, but it's fine, imo. Most boarding school no
Overtime
by Charles Stross
· published 2009 · read 2015-07-18
★★★★☆
Light reading. Bob has to deal with Christmas terrors from beyond. Very Charly, Much Stross, Q'thulhu.
Hogfather
by Terry Pratchett
· published 1996 · read 2010-03-01
★★★★☆
Hogfather is not quite peak Pratchett, but it's getting there. And, of course, even so it is better than most genre fiction by a margin. Hogfather beats you over the head with uncomfortable truths, while also having you giggle at Death tryi
The Last Christmas
by Alexander Wales
· published 2013 · read 2018-09-21
★★☆☆☆
This story has potential, but rationalists and their aversion to humour ruins it. The Last Christmas is a fun premise, but way too short to build it up properly, and so it ends up all over the place. Still: It's short, and a nice read, so
The Christmas Mystery
by Jostein Gaarder, Anne Born
· published 1992 · read 2005-05-01
★☆☆☆☆
I find Gaarder grating when he's preaching about philosophy, I find him unbearable when he starts on religion. It doesn't help that every of his book has this "teenager stumbles on mysterious story, lets said story happily preach at him". I
