Big Read finale

 For the past year, I have been participating in The Big Read from the Trollope Society.  In bi-weekly Zoom meetings from London, UK, I have joined in the discussion of several worthy novels by the prolific Victorian author Anthony Trollope.  Coming into 2025, I was well familiar with Trollope's best-know novel series, the Chronicles of Barsetshire, and the Pallisers, but little beyond that.  By following along with this year's reading list, I have been exposed to a much wider selection of the author's works.  Some of the books I have enjoyed greatly...others, not so much.  But it was all time well spent.  And now I embark on the final reading assignment of the year.  It is the short story Christmas at Thompson Hall, first published in 1876.  Instead of buying a bound paper copy of the book as I usually do, I've instead downloaded the text from Project Gutenberg to read on my vintage 2nd generation Kindle.  Instead of turning pages, I'll be virtually flipping them with a button press.  But by the final meeting on December 22, I will have completed the entire reading list of this year's Big Read.