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Joanne Huist Smith received a bachelor's degree in English from Wright State University. She worked as a reporter for the Dayton Daily News. Her first book, The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle, was published in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Ugh. Within about 5 minutes of listening to this audio, I could only wail Nooooooooooooooooooooo. I didn’t expect much from this one, so the bar was set pretty low. I expected a bit of light Christmas glurge, a memoir about a family dealing with the loss of a loved one, who found their Christmas spirit when their friends/neighbors/whatever got together to leave anonymous gifts to remind them of The Meaning of Christmas. Sounds like the perfect story to get you into the season, if you go into it without a cynical heart. I was even willing to overlook the amateur quality of the audio narration, because it’s a memoir read by the author. But I simply could not overlook its pushing my biggest button with respect to writing style, the dreaded First-Person-Present-Tense, further committing the egregious sin of mixing past tense inner monologue directly in with the present tense narration of story events. No. Nope. No way.

DNF at 5%. Ordinarily I wouldn’t rate a book after less than 20 minutes of audio time, but FPPT always gets a 1 star from me unless the writing and story are so fantastic that I don’t even notice it enough to be annoyed by it.

Audiobook, borrowed from my public library, read by the author.

I was attempting to read this for The 16 Tasks of The Festive Season, square 4: Book themes for Thanksgiving Day: Books with a theme of coming together to help a community or family in need. –OR– Books with a turkey or pumpkin on the cover. I don’t have any other books lined up for this task, so I might have to use my other Light Joker for it.
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Doodlebug34 | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | Jan 1, 2024 |
A cheesy, but heart-wrenching Christmas story where the husband has died in October and the wife is trying to hold herself together not realizing she isn’t there for her three kids. A gift arrives at the front door one day with the line, on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a poinsettia fir you. Then each day another set arrived. With the anticipation and guessing about the gifts, the family came together to realize the 13th gift was all the love surrounding them.
½
 
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bereanna | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | Dec 19, 2023 |
The meaning of this book was wonderful. It would have been better if it were a little shorter. Just seemed to go on and on. Honestly I had to make myself finish it because at times it was boring.
 
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Leessa | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | Sep 3, 2022 |
A light read - not as sad as I anticipated. It was a nice story although not the best book written.
 
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Chica3000 | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | Dec 11, 2020 |

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Obres
1
Membres
209
Popularitat
#106,076
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
22
ISBN
14
Llengües
2

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