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In Iceland, they celebrate Christmas Eve with a tradition of jólabókaflóð, the âYule Book Flood.â People give books on Christmas Eve and spend the evening reading, preferably with chocolate close at hand. Sounds like a great idea to me!
Itâs easy to have your own Yule Book Flood with Louisiana books this year, which has brought us so many big, beautiful volumes â one good thing to come out of 2020! Visit your favorite indie bookstore â shop local! â and stock up on chocolate. Santa, your book bag runneth over.
Beautiful coffee table books
âAfro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisianaâs Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition,â translated and introduced by Clint Bruce, with a foreword by Angel Adams Parham (Historic New Orleans Collection, $40) is a fascinating look at the world of the free people of color who contributed poetry to African American newspapers. The introduction is illuminating and draws the reader