{"id":302,"date":"2009-01-05T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/review-of-silver-bells-by-luanne-rice\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T21:34:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T01:34:35","slug":"review-of-silver-bells-by-luanne-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Review of Silver Bells, by Luanne Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image303\" height=\"208\" alt=\"silver_bells.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/silver_bells.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Silver Bells<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Holiday Tale<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Luanne Rice<\/p>\n<p>Bantam Books, 2005.\u00a0 274 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luannerice.com\/\">http:\/\/www.luannerice.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bantamdell.com\/\">http:\/\/www.bantamdell.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another Christmas story.\u00a0 Oddly enough, I tried to read this book last year, and simply couldn&#8217;t get interested.\u00a0 It felt predictable and sentimental.\u00a0 This year, I picked it up, read past the beginning, and found it sweet, poignant and even unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Byrne is a Christmas tree farmer from Nova Scotia.\u00a0 Every year, he sells his stock, commanding high prices, in New York City.\u00a0 Last year, however, his 16-year-old son, Danny, decided to stay in New York City instead of coming back home.\u00a0 This year, Christy and his young daughter Bridget want nothing more than to find Danny.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, librarian Catherine Tierney lives near the Christmas tree lot, but has a hard time with Christmas.\u00a0 Three years ago, she lost her beloved husband to melanoma right at Christmastime.\u00a0 However, Catherine tries to help people in memory of Brian, and all year a certain homeless boy has been wanting access to the private library she tends.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Christy and Catherine&#8217;s lives intertwine.\u00a0 Yes, this story is about waking up to romance and about Christmas miracles.\u00a0 The story is very nicely done.\u00a0 I found that once I was in the right mood for it, I was treated to a heartwarming holiday tale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553588559\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/silver_bells.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/silver_bells.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Bells A Holiday Tale by Luanne Rice Bantam Books, 2005.\u00a0 274 pages. http:\/\/www.luannerice.com\/ http:\/\/www.bantamdell.com\/ Here&#8217;s another Christmas story.\u00a0 Oddly enough, I tried to read this book last year, and simply couldn&#8217;t get interested.\u00a0 It felt predictable and sentimental.\u00a0 This year, I picked it up, read past the beginning, and found it sweet, poignant and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-fiction-review","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}