My reading habits have definitely changed in the last few years! College kind of killed off my love of reading for a while, but now that I'm teaching high school English, I've started reading more, and more often for pleasure. I'm going through the books I've read so far this year and posting some reviews of books. First on my list is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I read it for the first time with my students last December. This classic novel follows Ebeneezer Scrooge through one insane night filled with ghosts. Mr. Scrooge is a stalwart Christmas hater. The descriptions of him at the beginning of the novel describe him as cold and almost uncaring. His partner, Jacob Marley, died before the events of the novel, but they are also a key to understanding what's happening. Marley was possibly more cold than Scrooge. Scrooge goes home on Christmas Eve after sending his assistant home and reluctantly giving him the next day off. After climbing into bed that n