Check out our Beacon Bookstore at the southwest corner of Fuller Hall this Sunday! We have a wide selection of books to make perfect gifts for every age. Does your family read The Night Before Christmas or A Child’s Christmas in Wales on Christmas Eve? We have both, along with The New Testament in Modern English.  

Do you remember the beginning of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas? “One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea, and out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen.” For me, the long poem always brings back children fading toward bed after listening to Grandpa read and watching Christmas lights on the tree.

Maybe your sister would enjoy a book of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poems, or a meditative essays, or a Unitarian hymnal? Perhaps it’s a stocking stuffer mug with a “Love” chalice on the front?  We have a number of Thich Nhat Hanh books arriving this week, and a number of other thoughtful books that might be perfect for friends.  The 15- or 16-year-olds on your list might enjoy the Heartstopper graphic novels (multi-award-winning British series on Netflix). 

We are still able to order many things to arrive before Sunday, December 21, so you can pick them up before Christmas. It doesn’t need to be a title we would normally carry – maybe a special cookbook or novel or the new book out about the history of the Girl Scouts (Intrepid Girls) – we can probably get it for you. Remember that we are one of your little local independent bookstores!  

Thank you for being our loyal customers!