Icelandic Christmas book flood

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Jollibee flu, the Christmas book flood, and they spend the entire

night reading books.

There's no way you made up the last part, so I'm going with the second was false.

Now, that's not an idea original with me, of course.

And we've talked about the Icelandic tradition of Jólabokaflod, the Christmas book flood.

I love how people have used this tradition of giving books at Christmas to do good in the world.

I want to share with you a small essay written by the master historian David McCullough.