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Bokaflod, Anyone? Bringing Together Books, Friends, and Fun

The tradition of book exchanges as Christmas Eve presents began in Iceland, but can be used for inspiration any time of the year.
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Bokaflod, Anyone? Bringing Together Books, Friends, and Fun
There is a beauty and deepened comradery that can be found in shared silent reading. Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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Jolabokaflod.

That mouthful—it’s pronounced “yo-la-boke-uh-flowed”—comes into English as “Christmas book flood” and refers to Christmas Eve in Iceland, when many families and friends exchange books as presents, sit by a toasty fire, drink hot cocoa, and read.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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