Chapter One Hundred Eighty-Eight: Auggie Wren's Christmas Story

Let's call this post my contribution to the festivities...  I decided today was probably the right day to dip into an early Christmas present from my grandmother, so after breakfast I sat down and gobbled up Auggie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster.  My edition of this very short story--it was originally published on the op-ed page of the New York Times in 1990--is also accompanied by delightful illustrations by Isol, which add some warmth to this self-described unsentimental Christmas story.  And, actually, as these things go, it is pretty unsentimental, though it's a nice little story.  I can't say much more without telling the whole story myself, other than to note that I was almost tempted to believe it by the end and that it was a refreshingly different Christmas story than the ones I'm used to.