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Book Review: Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, Revised & Updated Edition

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Note: A digital copy of this book was provided by the publisher for review. What really jumped out at me as I read through the new edition of Alonso Duralde's guide to holiday movies (and looked back on the original) was how far ahead of the curve Duralde's been. For those of you unfamiliar with the first edition, "Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas" is a guide designed to streamline the process of finding holiday movies you may have missed or forgotten about. The original came out fifteen years ago, and it remains pretty much the only book of its kind on the market (or at least the only one I've been able to find... and I've been looking). I'm not forgetting Jeremy Arnold's "Christmas In The Movies" - that's also quite good, but Arnold's approaching the concept of the holiday movie from a very different, much more focused perspective. What sets "Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas" apart is that it's collecting a...