Okay so back to the Christmas reading challenge. I pick up The Christmas Scrapbook by Philip Gulley because it was short (89 pages) and it was the ONLY Christmas book in our libraries display that was not a romance. Thank goodness this was short. I did not enjoy this book. The idea seemed nice. Husband wants to get wife a "real" Christmas present this year so he take a scrapbooking class at a local junior college to learn how to scrapbook in the hopes of making her a scrapbook for Christmas. Sweet idea right? The execution was horrible. The main character, Pastor Sam, tells his wife that he is going to a men's group on Wednesday nights... which is really the night of his class (lie). His wife starts to believe her friend that he is really having an affair. Once she finds out this isn't true, she then believes the friend again ("Dumb this friend lady" I was wanted to scream at her) that he is secretly dying and is going for treatments on Wednesday nights. The entire town eventually catches onto to this story, so as the Christmas holiday approaches people go out of their way to be nice to Sam. The scrapbook class is totally a failure for Sam and he ends up enlisting help from his assistant to attempt to finish his book. If you are interested in finding out if he does finish the scrapbook, what hiw wife thinks or it, or what happens when they find out he is not ill... you will have to spend an hour of your life reading it.
I felt like I was stuck in a situational comedy. Kind of Bob Newhart like... but not as good.
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