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Number9Dream

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10. "Wishin' and Hopin'" by Wally Lamb

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Wed Dec 21, 2016, 02:10 PM

Dec 2016

If you like Jean Shepherd's "A Christmas Story, you'll probably like this story too. Lamb's holiday tale focuses on a feisty Catholic school fifth grader named Felix Funicello - a distant cousin of Annette Funicello. Both poignant and very funny, Wishin' and Hopin' transports us back to October, November, and December of 1964.

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What are you reading this week of December 18, 2016? [View all] hermetic Dec 2016 OP

Thanks, hermetic. I hope we don't begin living the Skull Mantra. TexasProgresive Dec 2016 #1

Mmm, an older one hermetic Dec 2016 #2

No snow here but the temp swings might kill me TexasProgresive Dec 2016 #3

I live in high desert hermetic Dec 2016 #4

The Best of Everything PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2016 #5

Highly acclaimed hermetic Dec 2016 #6

That book is still in print. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2016 #7

Yeah, I already checked hermetic Dec 2016 #8

It would be extremely interesting for someone from another country PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2016 #9

For clarification hermetic Dec 2016 #11

"Wishin' and Hopin'" by Wally Lamb Number9Dream Dec 2016 #10

Hi! hermetic Dec 2016 #12

Finished The Best of Everything. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2016 #13