Two-Part Book Club Event Series featuring The Man Who Invented Christmas

Join us for our first non-fiction book club! We'll kick off the holiday season reading The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford. This event series includes two events (one ticket gives you access to both events): Wednesday November 11th: meet and receive your copy of the book. Enjoy a glass of wine and good conversation as we talk about reading and beginning our book club together. Finally, we will read quietly for an hour and begin the book together as a group. Wednesday December 2nd: reconvene to have a traditional book club discussion about our book. We'll craft and drink wine in addition to our discussion. Your ticket includes: a new copy of The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits (if you choose the GA w/ book ticket) admission to two 90-minute events at U Wine Bar hosted by Sam of SBC two glasses of wine or N/A beverage of choice (one at each event) craft supplies for our crafting project on night 2 a group of book lovers to read with and get to know, including a WhatsApp group chat FAQ: What if I don't drink? No worries, U Wine has lots of great N/A options that you are welcome to have as your free beverage instead! What if I already have the book or want to read it on my e-reader? Choose a general admission ticket: no book and lower price, everything else is the same! More about The Man Who Invented Christmas... As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all. With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. The Man Who Invented Christmas is a rich and satisfying read for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike. -