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    Boo Humbug
    Boo Humbug
    Boo Humbug
    Audiobook5 hours

    Boo Humbug

    Written by Rene Gutteridge

    Narrated by Laurie Klein

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    It’s Christmastime in Skary, Indiana, but the holiday season has been hijacked by maverick director Lois Stepaphanopolis as she attempts to bring her horror-ific vision of A Christmas Carol to life. But the holly-decked path from page to stage is a thorny one, as Lois attempts to rally her skeptical cast, including new father Wolfe Boone, and then she learns that her reluctant marketing director, Alfred Tennison, is truly a Christmas Scrooge. Alfred’s grassroots marketing plan proves more than successful as the buzz builds that Skary should anticipate an overflowing audience for their opening night– but a crucial miscommunication leaves the visiting theatergoers expecting of a very different Christmas production. As chaos ensues, can the actors pull off an improv miracle — and can the Skary community convince their own Scrooge to embrace the true meaning of Christmas?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateApr 15, 2009
    ISBN9781605483108
    Boo Humbug
    Author

    Rene Gutteridge

    RENE GUTTERIDGE has been writing professionally for twenty years, with published and produced work in fiction, comedy sketches, novelizations, non-fiction and screenwriting, and is co-director of WriterCon in Oklahoma City. Her novel My Life as a Doormat was adapted into the Hallmark movie Love's Complicated. She is head writer at Skit Guys Studios. She lives with her family in Oklahoma City.Read more about Rene's work with The Skit Guys and her other projects at renegutteridge.com

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    • 3/5
      The town of Skary, Indiana has fallen on hard times since its leading citizen, horror author Wolfe Boone, quit his genre and became a married man. But the residents of Skary aren't the only ones whose fortunes have fallen since Wolfe's departure from the horror scene. His agent, Alfred Tennison, hit rock bottom when Wolfe found Jesus and lost the bestseller list drive. He's now a freelance editor, making enough money to afford a modest place in Manhatten. But for reasons Alfred can't fathom, Skary keeps luring him back, where he'll stay for indefinite periods. Hard to tolerate the rest of the year, Skary is becoming unbearable with all of its way-to-early-for-Alfred Christmas cheer.

      Alfred may be Scrooge in disguise, but for Lois Stepaphanopolis this will be a Christmas like no other. An epiphany during her community college acting class shifted her creative gears into overdrive. Skary will do a Christmas pageant! Lois, the play's director, brain child and the sheriff's girlfriend is certain she's a genius. The play will be based on A Christmas Carol, a little known work by the underappreciated writer, Charles Dickens. Lois is determined to rectify this grievous wrong by producing her own play. With her vision. And no one on the face of the earth has vision like Lois. It's safe to say no one will recognize her interpretation of Dickens-not even Dickens himself.

      Scrooge Alfred even gets involved in the play. Blackmailed by the sheriff into participating, Alfred's New York survival instincts kick into gear. Here's a chance to put his promotional skills to work and make a few dollars for himself on the side. It is also his way to avoid participating in a play that scarred him in childhood. When Lois Stepaphanopolis agrees to let him be the play's public relations director, his New York assumptions collide with the locals' and miscommunication on a grand scale begins.

      Not everyone needs to be coerced into helping Lois. One willing participant is her cousin, Ollie. Another participant, one not quite so willing, is Skary's resident author, Wolfe. But both are new fathers and are breaking under the stress of new fatherhood with its stomach turning baby foods, diapers that could repel an invading army, and sleep deprivation. Acting in a play requires hours of commitment-all of which take place outside of home. But their attempts at self-preservation while trying to maintain the façade of calm fatherhood implode when their wives discover their real reasons for their sudden interest in community involvement.

      Word begins to spread about Skary's upcoming Christmas production. Not until its too late does Alfred realize what he's been promoting and what the citizens, which are coming by the busload, are expecting couldn't be farther apart. As the time for the curtain draws closer, Lois is left in a bind. Perform her vision or abandon it to put on a pageant done myriad times over the years?

      Boo Humbug is the fourth book in the Boo Series (Boo, Boo Who, Boo Hiss) and continues the humorous look at the small town of Skary, Indiana. Full of quirky characters, miscommunication, and other idiosyncrasie of small town living, Boo Humbug is a fun novel. At only one hundred and eighty pages, it’s a great size for a chilly afternoon read.




    • 4/5
      If you haven’t read the other books in this series, you might have a bit of trouble sorting out the characters. However, it won’t take you long to understand their personalities and relationships. Lois is rewriting “A Christmas Carol” to put her own twist on it, but it doesn’t end up quite like she envisioned it. Alfred is in charge of promoting it, but he, too, makes a major blunder. Meanwhile, the two new dads, overwhelmed by their infants and sleep deprived, look to Lois’s play for a bit of rest away from their respective home life. This, too, proved to be unwise. But it’s Christmas, and a miracle might just be waiting in the wings. This charming tale will amuse and entertain you and is quite enjoyable, whether it’s Christmas time or not.