Fwd: "Merry Christmas"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:10 AM -0800 12/26/04, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>>>last things first.  i second the recommendation of briggs's Father
>>>Christmas (it's still in print), and many other briggs books as well,
>>>especially the delightfully disgusting Fungus the Bogeyman and the
>>>story of his parents' lives, Ethel and Ernest: A True Story.  all his
>>>books are charming and wonderfully humane (but not irritatingly
>>>sentimental).
>>>
And lest we forget, one particularly seasonal selection:  _The
Snowman_.  Very good stuff.

L