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Dec25

The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, the Big Day

by Nat on December 25, 2012 at 1:01 am
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My choice of what the finest non-adaptation-of-A-Charlie-Brown-Christmas Peanuts Christmas book wasn’t a struggle. The Joy of a Peanuts Christmas is quite simply a lovely book of the core of Peanuts. It’s a strip collection, collecting Christmas-themed strips. Now, that would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Dec24

The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 1 day to go

by Nat on December 24, 2012 at 1:01 am
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The title of Christmas is Together-Time may be a mite awkward, but what it is isn’t awkward at all. What it is is pure, book-original Schulz, with his reflections on Christmas and what it is. And lest you think that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Dec23

The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 2 days to go

by Nat on December 23, 2012 at 1:01 am
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Some books are great, but some books are more than a book, and such is the case with A Very Peanuts Christmas – it’s a book, but it’s also a pillow! More of a decorative throw item than something you’re […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Dec22

The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 3 days to go

by Nat on December 22, 2012 at 1:01 am
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Attempts to merge Schulz drawings with other styles of art are often just visually annoying, but not invariably so. Case in point: Yes, Santa, there is a Charlie Brown, a book from 1971 that Halmark has issued as a small […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Dec21

The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 4 days to go

by Nat on December 21, 2012 at 1:11 am
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Sally’s Christmas Play is another storybook taken from a strip continuity… but this one is the tale where Sally believes that she’s supposed to say “Hark!” right before Harold Angel sings. That makes it a better story than some which […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Dec20

The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 5 days to go

by Nat on December 20, 2012 at 1:01 am
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The Peanuts Christmas Ornament Book gets my affection because it’s a book. And it’s a good thing it says that it’s a book in the title, because otherwise I might never have known. Normally, I would not consider a folded […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Dec19

The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 6 days to go

by Nat on December 19, 2012 at 1:01 am
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You thought I was kidding about that earlier cover when I said that the presents were about to hit the smiling, oblivious youth in their noggins. But on this book you see the sort of thing that happens. And its […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Dec18

The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 7 days to go

by Nat on December 18, 2012 at 1:01 am
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This 1979 coloring book isn’t just A Charlie Brown Christmas, it’s The Charlie Brown Christmas. And that cover is sweet! Although the interior does have one thing that bugs my in coloring books: characters who have their mouths open, clearly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Dec17

The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 8 days to go

by Nat on December 17, 2012 at 1:01 am
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If I liked the book from two days ago because it was a Christmas book with a cactus on the cover, and I liked the one yesterday because it was a Christmas book that was actually a Christmas ornament, then […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Dec16

The AAUGH.com Advent Calendar, 9 days to go

by Nat on December 16, 2012 at 1:01 am
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This mini version of the 1980 update of Christmas is Together Time (well, the original version actually had a hyphen, Together-Time) is on the list because it’s not just a Christmas book, its also a Christmas ornament!