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Every Christmas the husbeast puts this movie on for all to see, on replay, all day.
So, when no one had a December pick for our book club: Ralphie to the rescue!


Or not.


Ralphie's rolling narration fills the house with background noise as we go about our day until I cry "Uncle, Uncle!" and we get to listen to something else.
I do enjoy the movie, a leg lamp (a, blessedly, smaller version that is) sits in our living room during the holiday season.
The book was, sadly, a bit of a miss for me. This disappointment was due mainly to then inevitable comparison of book to movie throughout the experience.
The timeline is slightly skewed and one of the biggest events (the Bumpuses dogs vs. the turkey) was drastically changed to an Easter Ham. (Ralphie's mother has very questionable safe food handing practices I must say.)
There was a sizeable section about the Bumpuses, giving us an unsavory taste of how it was to live next to them.
The focus of the book was less on the 'Christmas season' and more on how it was to be a kid growing up during the depression. Not exactly what I was going for in this read.
For seasonal reading you only get about 50 pages, the rest are off topic. I did not enjoy the jumps to 'Ralphie now' (or Jean) during the story. I don't feel that they added anything at all to the book.

It was a cute read but I wouldn't necessarily suggest it again for holiday reading.

Now, off to find some more 'Christmas Spirit'!