Reading Dickens: a family tradition

Every Advent season our family reads out loud ``A Christmas Carol.'' The author of the opinion-page article ``A Dickens of a Story, if You Read It,'' Dec. 15, is right - Charles Dickens was a master with the written language.

We don't have the problem of choosing which media version to watch. There is no television here. Elizabeth Hanson, La Farge, Wis.

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