A Few Of Our Favorite Things -- a continuing series

Today's holiday favorite is brought to us by Karel, who writes:

Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb is not your traditional Christmas inspirational novel. If the edge of hysteria is your over-riding feeling for the holidays, then this book may be perfect for you. Set in the 1960’s it is a nostalgic look backward when many of us late baby boomers were kids. The Mickey Mouse Club, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, and early TV with the universal adoration of Annette Funicello make their appearances in a pin-ball machine like hilarity. The reader pings, dings, and ricochets from one hysterical scene to the next to a final culmination in the great tableaux vivant staged at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Parochial School. If you are in need of some belly laughs for the holidays then try Wishin’ and Hopin’ by Wally Lamb.