Boo Humbug by Rene Gutteridge
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: WaterBrook Press (September 11, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400073537
ISBN-13: 978-1400073535
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Book Description
It’s Christmastime in Skary, Indiana, but the holiday season has been hijacked by maverick director Lois Stepaphanopolis as she attempts to bring her horror-ific vision of A Christmas Carol to life. But the holly-decked path from page to stage is a thorny one, as Lois attempts to rally her skeptical cast, including new father Wolfe Boone, and then she learns that her reluctant marketing director, Alfred Tennison, is truly a Christmas Scrooge.

Alfred’s grassroots marketing plan proves more than successful as the buzz builds that Skary should anticipate an overflowing audience for their opening night– but a crucial miscommunication leaves the visiting theatergoers expecting of a very different Christmas production. As chaos ensues, can the actors pull off an improv miracle — and can the Skary community convince their own Scrooge to embrace the true meaning of Christmas?

Christmas comedy! That’s the best I can describe this novel! I found myself chuckling a little as I read the book. Two new fathers need to get out of the house. The trials of taking care of newborn babes take their toll on two new fathers, so they plan to spend time out of the house by working on Lois’s Christmas play. However, Wolfe and Oliver, find themselves estranged from their wives when their beloved spouses accidentally discover their reasons for undertaking parts in Lois’s weird and crazy play.

Melb and Ainsley struggle to raise their kids as Melb worries incessantly about the health and well-being of her child.

Then Lois’s scatter-brained idea to put on a new, updated version of Dicken’s Christmas classic will make you chuckle. However, when Alfred’s marketing plan creates a successful buzz for the play, it turns out he creates the wrong kind of buzz! With such a huge misunderstanding, Lois doesn’t know how she can turn her play around completely before the actors must perform to a packed audience.

However, perform they do, using a script with a highly unusual twist.

Enjoy this novel for the holidays!

Cecelia Dowdy