A Child's Christmas in Wales, (Audiobook)

from lycomayflower

The TV movie version of A Child's Christmas in Wales from the 80s is one of my all-time favorite Christmas films, and that was how I first knew of this story. It wasn't until later that I ever actually read the short story it was based on, so the "correct" interpretation of the text in my mind wi...

from sdunford

A small, wonderful, lyrical story - " All Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea" Hard to think that this amazingly talented man drank himself to death, leaving so much unwritten.

from michigantrumpet

Reminiscence as prosey-poetry, poetic-prose aching to leap aloud from the mouth like wee warbling birds. Source of one of the greatest lines beloved by readers everywhere : "She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowball...

from satyridae

Every Christmas Eve we gather to listen to this CD, and then I insist we also listen to Fern Hill. I weep at the uncles part, but it's that warm nostalgic lovely weeping, and then Fern Hill breaks my heart (though I sang in my chains like the sea) and then we sleep. Thomas' voice is singular, th...

from BookConcierge

When one of my book groups chose this title for our December meeting, our hostess got her hands on a recording of Dylan Thomas himself reading this tale. We sat enraptured as little children and listened to the whole thing.