How can you tell that the new book “A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Timeless Tale of Joy and Meaning”: Unwrapping the True Spirit of the Holiday Season with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang”
is truly an innovative work? It’s the quotation marks in the title. Not constrained by the limitations placed on us by “experts” and “educators” and “anyone who knows English”, author Mary C Collins has gone and placed an odd number of quotation marks in the title. In that way you know that the book is not what you expect, it’s not what anybody expects. As for the content inside, well, I haven’t seen it, but it must be quite an efficient text, as it fits all there is to say into 33 pages. Thirty-three pages, that is, of large-print type on 6″x9″ paper. But what words are they? Might they be the Wikipedia page? Or possibly ChatGPT’s view of the special? The possibilities are… no, not unlimited, given that small word count, there is a most finite number of word combinations possible. Hey, maybe it’s just the title — a one word per page, that’d take up 27 pages right there… thirty-two if you use one page for each of the three quotation marks and the two colons.
And you know the sad thing? I’m going to buy this book. Because even though it’s a twelfth-of-an-inch-thick self-published no-Look-Inside item, it’s still a book about A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Completionism is a disease.
(I’ve got a much thicker, much more legit book on ACBC
that I am slowly working my way through and may not be able to review before Christmas… but I promise you dear AAUGH Blog Reader, I will read and review this book within 24 hours of its arrival.)
