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Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren't even going to have a tree. They won't need one, because come December 25 they're setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences--and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.

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I was a little shocked when I first began reading the book Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. It was nothing like what I had expected. It was nothing like what I had ever read from John Grisham before. I almost put the book down after the first couple of chapters. What a mistake that would have been!!!

I am truly glad that I continued reading. Soon I couldn't put it down. It was delightfully funny, warm, and witty. It was the kind of thing that we all think about doing (skipping Christmas), ...

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Meet Luther and Nora Krank. A typical family heading for a typical Christmas until they decide to do something a little atypical. When they realise how much they spend every year at Christmas (and with their only daughter Blair away for the first year) they decide instead to spend their money on a special holiday-a dream cruise departing on Christmas Day. So they strike up an agreement: neither one of them is to spend so much as a penny on anything to do with Christmas.
Can the Kranks withstan ...