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Summary: I love Christmas Stories!
Review: With Christmas soon here, I look forward to re-reading this timeless classic. For another great Christmas book, let me also suggest another surprising entry - The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam. I think it is the only Christmas book that has ever made me truly appreciate the miracles that can occur only at Christmas.
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Summary: A Book to Re- Read and Cherish
Review: In between books on December 31, of 2001, I thought about reading a memorable book to finish off this calamitous year. The book I chose was The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans which was actually a re-read for me but proved to be even more meaningful this time than the first time I read it sevevral years ago. Coincidentally earlier in the month I read The Christmas Box Miracle where Evans described how he came to write The Christmas Box and the tremendous popularity this small book has received. Both titles, seemed then and now, most appropriate choices.Today many readers are familiar with the book and the movie based on this book which starred Maureen O'Hara and Richard Thomas. Originally written as a gift for Evans's two daughter, The Christmas Box provides readers with a rather simplr and inspiring story of an elderly woman and the young family who she hires to help her out with her large home. As they live with this woman, her story of love and devotion is told through an antique Christmas Box that is also connected to the elderly woman's daughter. The message which is time;ess allows one to realize not only the true spirit of the holidays but a parents unconditional love for their children. The events of Septemebr 11th were certainly on my mind then as they are now, and as I finished this book I grieved for the many parents who lost children and the many children who lost parents. In some ways I found this inspirational book provided me with the profound hope for better days in the future.
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Summary: Not what I Expected.
Review: I try to keep informed with what's going on in the world and keep up with all that is going on in popular culture. However, often I never do understand or figure out what all the fuss and hub-bub over certain books, movies, television shows, etc. is about. THE CHRISTMAS BOX does not fall into that category. I had intended to read this story several yeas ago, but never got around to reading it until now. I'm so glad that I did. THE CHRISTMAS BOX is a great story. However, it is more than just a great story. At it's heart, it contains two powerful messages. The one is the story of the Gospels, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have ever lasting life." Chirstmas is not about Santa Claus; Christmas is about Jesus Christ and what His birth, death, and resurrection mean in our lives. I was quite surprised to find that the central message of Christmas was also the central message of THE CHRISTMAS BOX. However, there is another important message contained within the book. Life is precious and every moment should be lived to the full. Most of us have the privilage of being around children in one way or the other; whether we have our own, or we teach them, or someone dear to us has kids. This short story brings to heart how special children are and how important the time spent with them is. These are lessons that we need to hear and be reminded of often.
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Summary: Ending Will Never Leave You
Review: What a great story. This is a very short story but packed with more meaning than you can imagine. The Christmas Box was well written by Evans and will touch your heart. I read it in two nights. Even when you are finished reading this story, you will still think about it for a long time. The ending will never leave you. Evans writes these characters like they are every day people. It is not a story that seems fiction at all. Even though the title reveals The Christmas Box, this is a good story to read anytime of the year. It will touch your heart.
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Summary: Best Christmas Story
Review: This is the best Christmas story I have ever read. I am giving to all my friends this year for their present. This story is beautiful all the way through. A must read every Christmas season.
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Summary: A Heartfelt Awakening
Review: I just finished reading this book the other night. It was magnificent! Then last night I was going through the channels on tv and saw nothing worth watching was on as usual. Then I stumbled upon the Hallmark Channel. There it was!! The Christmas box !! I couldn't believe how the movie brought the book to life! This book has really touched my heart as I am sure it will touch yours. I can't wait to read The timepiece and The letter!! I am a newcomer to Richard Paul Evans and I am definately a future reader also!!
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Summary: Bring your tissues!
Review: What a heartwarming, wonderful book! It was suggested that I read it after my grandson was stillborn. The story is helpful with healing, and understanding love and grief. The message of the story is profound and bears repeating.
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Summary: A Wonderful Little Tome - a Great Gift for the Holidays
Review: Anyone looking for a memorable, book-gift, for the Christmas Holiday's has to look no further than this wonderful little book. Imprinted and published with all the decoration necessary to make this a keepsake for generations to come... Order two. You won't want to let go of your first copy. I've known the story for years and it's precious. This is the first printing that does the story justice. Simply said: "It's just wonderful." It should become a tradition for all families... Read it aloud on Christmas eve as you would read "The Night Before Christmas." This book has more of the emotion and more of the power to support your family... and enrich them... than any other book of its size. (...)
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Summary: The Chrismas Box
Review: The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans is unlike any Christmas story. This is a story with an everlasting theme. The Christmas Box has a lot of suspense and twists. It is sad and leaves the reader with feelings that last beyond the book's end. This is a short story that is an extremely quick read because once the reader has started, the reader will never want to put it down until finished.
The main character, and point of view in which the story is told, is a man who is in need of a lesson about the important things in life. Luckily, an elderly woman is there to give it to him. All of the characters in the story are very similar to real people and easily related to. All of them go through everlasting changes and growth. Many of the characters are round characters with many dimensions making them enjoyable to read about. The author did a good job with making the characters fun to read more about. He always left the reader with questions about their very dimensional personalities.
The theme of this book is concerning what Christmas is truly about and the importance of children in everyone's life; they are the best present God can offer. The author chose a neat way of cluing the reader in about the theme through everyday situations. This theme is also a nice change from a typical Christmas message, in the way that it is easily relatable to many people.
In conclusion, this is a book that has a really neat ending that is happy, sad and overflowed with other emotions. It teaches a lesson through a chain of events that are mysterious. A family comes together and is taught the real meaning of Christmas and about the first Christmas Gift which is important and easily forgotten. This book is definitely worth reading because it is quick and well written making it thrilling page after page.
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Summary: The Christmas Box
Review: Richard Paul Evens wrote The Chirstmas Box for his two daughters, and to show them how much he cares about them. While he was writing it he had a inspiriation from his passed away sister. His sister was still birthed and on the 3rd anniversity of her death, he found his mother in her bedroom weeping over her. Then after he was finished with the book he gave it to his wife, and had her read it. It was midnight she finished reading the book, and was speechless. Then he gathered his family, and read it to them. He gave his first copy to his mother, then gave a copy to the other members of the family. Two weeks later he got a call and a woman was on the phone, and told him that it changed her life. He asked her where she got the book, and she told him from one of his relatives. Then another two weeks pasted, and he got a call from a book store asking where they can order the book, he told them that it wasn't published. The person was didn't believe him, because the bookstore have orders for THe Christmas Box. The Richard called publishers all around town and after a little bit of rejection they published the book. Then went on the road to promote The Christmas Box, while he was sighing books for people, he saw a woman staring at him. He asked her " Do you want me to sighn a book for you". She told him " You are to young, its not true" then he said " It's not true" then she said "The angel is gone". Later he went to a semitary with the old woman and found a tomestone, and next to it there was suppost to be a statue of a angel but there was none. On December 6, 1994, he had a sculpturer make a angel that had a writing on the base the said MY LITTLE ANGELS. He invited all people that lost a child to come for the unvailing of the sculpture, he thought there was only goin to be a couple dozen people there, but there was hundreds of people there. He had his mother lay a white flower on the base of the sculpture, and then other people would but there white flower on the base. Now every December 6 people would come back to the sculpture, and put a white flower on the base of the sculpture. this all happened from a book called THE CHIRSTMAS BOX.
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