Skipping Christmas
I’ve known John Grisham as a serious man, so when I picked this up years ago at Blossoms, I anticipated getting to know the ‘lighter writer’-side of him.
Skipping Christmas is about Luther, a man with a grown daughter away from home on work, who has had just about enough with Christmas – the lack of parking spaces, or for that matter, space of any sort. Intrusions from neighbours, street competitions on the most well-decorated rows of homes, charities, lighting up Frosty the Snowman – Luther is up to his neck with all of it. And so, he decided that he’s going to save on Christmas expenses and use that money to treat him and his wife Nora to a Caribbean vacation, far from the madness of the season. In his efforts to make the most of the vacation, he decides to turn into a hunk of irresistible charms by treating himself to tanning sessions and fitness regimes. Nothing deters him from his agenda of getting away, not even sweet-voiced carolers and conspiring neighbours. But then, his daughter calls home and says that she’s coming over for Christmas. With her never-been-introduced fiancé. And so Luther and wife are thrown into a mad rush to put together a fancy Christmas at the last minute.
My verdict of the book: Airport read. In fact, I think I finished reading it while onboard a one-hour flight. The book has its moments, but in all honesty, I think John Grisham does a better job with serious books than he might with casual ones.
Skipping Christmas also been adapted into a movie starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, titled ‘Christmas with the Kranks’. So if you’re in the mood to skip reading, you can always catch the movie.
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