Many years ago when I was a student my landlady told me she had a tradition of reading #TerryPratchett's Hogfather every Christmas, and Lords and Ladies every summer solstice. And that remains the most sensible tradition I've ever heard of, so I adopted it immediately and have been doing it ever since
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My traditional winter solstice read used to be 'The Dark Is Rising' by Susan Cooper.
Coincidentally, this year I've chosen to reread 'Hogfather' and am really enjoying the change :)
@afewbugs it does sound sensible. add in the yearly reading of Zelazny's _A Night In Lonesome October_, for me.
The first time that I read Hogfather, My partner was dog-sitting for a friend.
On the evening of Christmas Day, I took him to the local park for his evening dump, and there was a complately clear sky, apart from a figure made from cloud.
It was Santa Claus walking North, and carrying an empty sack... :D
@afewbugs I like that.
There's also Night Watch when the lilac is in bloom (which where we are at least seems to be several weeks before the 25th of May)
As it happens, I have just reread Hogfather for the first time in years. I wasn't thinking too hard when I picked it up, but it turned out to chime pretty well with where OH and I are at the moment, trying to more consciously connect with the solstice and other seasonal markers, while Christmas is still A Thing because kids and wider family.
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A long time ago, in a country far away, my partner and I would buy each #Discworld book as it came out, and take turns to read it aloud to one another.
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