Review: Poking Fun at Shopping During the Christmas Season
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
In CHRISTMAS MALL FOLLIES, the narrator, on the advice of a female friend, takes a trip to the mall a couple days before Christmas in search of the Christmas spirit. CHRISTMAS MALL FOLLIES isn’t a narrative novel so much as it is a series of comic essays about different Christmas traditions, most of which revolve around shopping. However, there are also chapters about Christmas card shopping and looking for a Christmas tree. Also, there are a couple of chapters that are so general they can be applied to the Christmas season in general and not just Christmas shopping at the mall, such as the chapter about Christmas songs. The writing is pretty straight-forward and many of the observations are rather funny. The book is also short (at 55 pages). My only complaint is that although the book is humorous, it’s also somewhat repetitive; cantankerous can be funny, but too much of it can also be overkill. Overall, CHRISTMAS MALL FOLLIES is a humorous collection of essays poking fun of  shopping during the Christmas season.