The Christmas Letters

3.5 stars I read my first Lee Smith novel, Fair and Tender Ladies, this past spring, and it will top my list of favorite books for 2018. I quickly ordered three more of her books, which are sitting on my shelves rather impatiently waiting their turn to come around. In the meantime, I was given this l......more

3.5 Like most Christmas letters, the letters in this book wish the recipients a Merry Christmas, but this book is not really a Christmas story . Three generations of women talk about life for them and their family over the years ranging from births to death, to marriages, from WWII to the Vietnam Wa......more

I’ve included a letter in my Christmas cards for years. One year I heard somewhere that most people think Christmas letters are lame and old fashioned so I didn’t write one to slip into the cards. What an uproar! All my family and friends asked where the updates were. So that just goes to show that......more

I don't usually read a "Christmas" story, but I ran across this one in one of my daily special e-mails and decided to give it a try. I'm glad it was a novella (only 88 pages) because I don't think I could have handled much more. It is a short story depicting annual Christmas letters sent to relative......more

Lee Smith's story - The Christmas letters is a collection of letters from 3 generations of women, the story is fascinating in a way. It takes you through their lives, traditions and turmoils. The book is paced in a way that you grow with the family and feel you are living it right there with them. My......more