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Christmas Jars Reunion (2009)

by Jason F. Wright(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1606411659 (ISBN13: 9781606411650)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Shadow Mountain

review 1: I didn't love this book. I liked the Christmas Jars much better - and maybe because it shared a great idea for helping others during the Christmas season. Like many projects, sometimes a good idea gets out of hand and this book presents that scenario. Instead of individuals saving and sharing their change they brought the jars to a central location for distribution - and kept tabs on how many jars they had. They had a lot of jars to distribute in one community! I kept thinking that in today's world someone surely would have robbed that restaurant with all those jars of money sitting around! The chapters jumped back and forth between different parts of the story and especially in the beginning was rather confusing - until I became better acquainted with the characters... more and their stories started to mesh. I found many things to be implausible. (ie. an injured man with no job and not much in the way of worldly goods affording to live in a motel for weeks . . . )
review 2: I liked the first book a little better and since it's been a year since I read it, there were a lot of characters to recall. Christmas jars are filled with spare coins until they are full and then they are donated anonymously. In this book, Hope has made the Christmas jars her passion and main occupation. She writes a column in a small newspaper about the jars and has a lofty goal to give out 1,001 jars by Christmas. I love the message of "the one": how each jar is unique and meant for one person or family. The plot took a few unexpected turns and the characters surprised me a few times. less

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