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Dakota Christmas

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Dakota Christmas

By: Joseph Bottum
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
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A memoir of childhood Christmases on the South Dakota plains. By turns sweet and comic, sentimental and serious, Joseph Bottum's Dakota Christmas is an instant Christmas classic. In this beautifully written account of the mad joys and wild emotions of Christmas for children, Bottum captures the universal spirit of the season even while he recounts his memories with a sharp particularity that brings them alive for listeners.

"Her hair was the same thin shade of gray as the weather - beaten pickets of the fence around her frozen garden," he writes of one chance Christmas encounter. "She had a way with horses, and she was alone on Christmas Eve. There is little in my life I regret as much as that I would not stay for just one cookie, just one cup of tea."

"Joseph Bottum is one of America’s most gifted writers, with a perfect ear and a matchless style," the essayist Andrew Ferguson notes of Dakota Christmas. And "to watch him deck the halls with his customary humor and generosity of spirit is glad tidings indeed - guaranteed to make your Yuletide bright."

"Families have always loved brief Christmas classics," adds Michael Novak. "Joseph Bottum's Dakota Christmas is such a classic."

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Wonderful. Brings back wonderful memories of childhood Christmas. Recommend for all. Good for the entire family.

Memories

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This is a good Kindle Short that I wish were a bit longer. It is memories of childhood circling around Christmas time.

Good Kindle Short

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It may be that the author and I are of the same generation, and that I grew up in small town Iowa, but nearly everything he writes about here strikes a chord, from sorrow to joy and all the mixed emotions in-between that characterized those gloriously endless weeks leading up to Christmas each year. Thank you to both the perceptive author and the gifted narrator.

Just right for my Christmas feelings

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A delightful reminiscence of Christmases past to fill you with laughter, joy, nostalgia and yes, sadness . . . at a time now gone, a feeling now lost, and to warm you with those things most important in life. A classic.

Christmas Remembered

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a very sweet Christmas story. I've only started listening to Joseph Bottoms this past week but he's quickly become one of my favorite new writers. and Brian Trovell tells the story like they belong to him.. they're awesome. together, they do some wonderful stories.

Joseph Bottom/Brian Trovell

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Good message but meh. I could take or leave it. Not bad for a 45 minutes listen

Good message

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The author is a bit theatrically cynical at times but I’d suggest taking it as “fond sarcasm”.
Also a bit funny and a bit poignant in parts.
Overall, I liked it, I probably wouldn’t re-listen.

Nice Essay Collection

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Not sure what the point of this book was. The whole thing was about the main character going on and on about his past Christmases. On and on about his regrets, food he didn't like, and presents he got or didn't get for either himself or loved ones.

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