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Topic: What Books Did You Give/Get This Holiday?
| Author | Message |
| GalleyCat | Posted – 12/27/2007 6:11:04 PM | show profile GalleyCat wants to know: What books did you give as presents this holiday season? And what books did you receive? |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 12/27/2007 6:58:01 PM | show profile I gave my wife the audiobook A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. She had it on her Christmas list. She gave me two books from mine: a reprint of an 1867 history of my little town, and a book called Going Going Gone: Vanishing Americana, about objects and traditions vanishing (or already gone) from American society, from the American Elm to Wedding Night Virgins. |
| nika | Posted – 12/27/2007 8:01:20 PM | show profile I bought this huge art book on Andy Warhol & The Factory for my brother (and, uh, bought one for myself too!). It's fantastic. |
| Nikongirl | Posted – 12/27/2007 8:12:27 PM | show profile I gave my husband, son and daughter-in-law all substantial gift cards for a major book store. I also gave my husband a fascinating book by Tim Butcher titled: Blood River A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart. I already started it on the subway when I brought it home and can't wait to get into it. After he reads it first of course. I also bought myself the new Kate Mosse book Sepulchre even though I couldn't get into her book Labyrinth...but it sounds interesting so I'll give it a shot. |
| voracious reader | Posted – 12/27/2007 8:28:00 PM | show profile I beg of you not to get me started! :) |
| keltoi | Posted – 12/27/2007 11:38:29 PM | show profile oh--and my wife and I bought Borders giftcards for all 12 nieces and nephews. |
| Righter | Posted – 12/27/2007 11:49:59 PM | show profile I got a Borders gift card, one of the best gifts ever! I'd honestly be perfectly happy if everyone just got me gift cards to book stores/amazon (they do have the best prices on books, even if I don't get to physically browse through the shelves) for all my birthdays and holidays. |
| Astera | Posted – 12/28/2007 12:37:38 AM | show profile I got so many books, and I can't wait to curl up and read them all! I got Austenland (Shannon Hale), The Empress of Weehawken (irene Dische), The Devil's Gentleman (Harold Schecter), T Is For Trespass (Sue Grafton), and at least one or two others that I'm forgetting right now. (We spent Christmas with family in Napa, so our gifts had to be shipped back to Southern California.) I gave The Little Lady Agency (Hester Brown) to my mom, Rumpole Misbehaves (John Mortimer) and Thomas Jefferson on Wine (John Hailman) to my dad, the Mustards cookbook (Cindy Pawlcyn) to my mother-in-law, and Choke (Chuck Palahniuk) to my husband. And a good time was had by all. ------ www.adventuresofastera.blogspot.com |
| voracious reader | Posted – 12/28/2007 9:05:25 AM | show profile Astera - Re- The Devil's Gentleman I knew I'd have to chime in ..... When you read the book, read it right down to the end of all the footnotes. They're as facinating as the story! Enjoy! |
| hughes.jennifer | Posted – 12/28/2007 10:27:21 AM | show profile What Books Did You Give/Get This Holiday? I got "The Tobacco Curtain" and "Middlesex." Both are so good, that I'm having difficulties not reading them at work. |
| russ | Posted – 12/28/2007 10:40:09 AM | show profile | email poster pillars of the earth I had absolutely no idea I'd care about Pillars of The Earth until it found its way into a stocking...and I devoured it in a day. |
| Girl Reader | Posted – 12/28/2007 11:08:28 AM | show profile I received two books and a couple of bookstore gift cards. The Great Stink (by Clare Clark) and The Thirteenth Tale (by Diane Setterfield) and immediately started reading the Setterfield. My husband asked for The Dark Realm (by John Twelve Hawks) and I plan to borrow it when he's done. My son made out like a bandit: he received four new picture books as gifts then was given a box of at least 30 picture and early chapter books that his now teenaged cousin has outgrown. |
| foodlit | Posted – 12/28/2007 6:13:44 PM | show profile I gave a gift edition of LAMB, by Christopher Moore to two people. Also gave a book that was about a fifty something woman who followed her dream and went to cooking school in France...am blanking on the name though. I received a book on the Red Sox and a cookbook on Appetizers. |
| bart23ny | Posted – 12/28/2007 7:57:41 PM | show profile Strangely, I didn't receive any. But I gave a copy of God Is Dead by Ron Currie jr. to someone, and the audiobook of Night Fall by Nelson DeMillle to someone else. |
| worldofnatasha | Posted – 12/29/2007 5:24:08 PM | show profile Heroes: Saving Charlie there are six of us who get together to watch the TV show Heroes every Monday night, so we all gave each other the book (more fun than just buying it for ourselves!) now we'll get together next Monday to discuss it, since the show's on hiatus... |
| xxxxx | Posted – 12/30/2007 5:42:04 PM | show profile < The Sharper Your Knife the Less You Cry? |
| pop | Posted – 1/8/2008 4:54:03 PM | show profile Gave: Law of Attraction, Plot Against America and Stumbling on Happiness Received: Eat, Pray, Love |
| westsidestory | Posted – 1/9/2008 12:24:42 AM | show profile hardcovers and steam heat I got an Amazon gift card but I used it to buy a humidifier! Mostly because it qualified for free shipping, and I really needed a new one. Gave: autographed copies of THE GREAT MAN and PONTOON, and, to my nephew, THE FOUR HOUR WORK WEEK wrapped in a nifty portable hammock. |
| lander | Posted – 1/10/2008 1:45:26 PM | show profile THIS I BELIEVE I gave 35 copies of THIS I BELIEVE, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman in association with NPR. It was one of the best books I ever received, and the certainly one of the best I have ever given. |
| tln577 | Posted – 1/18/2008 5:47:46 PM | show profile The Bitch of it I received SKINNY BITCH from my mom this Christmas. Amazing. |
| Unemployed-gal | Posted – 1/18/2008 7:46:25 PM | show profile I got a massive number of gift cards to Borders and Amazon.com, so here's what I've bought for myself: A biography of Alva and Consuelo Vanderbilt, Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott, The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury (the book on which the Leonardo DiCaprio movie was based), The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, Heyday by Kurt Andersen, A Pickpocket's Tale by Timothy Gilfoyle. I also pre-ordered Sophie Kinsella's new book from Amazon. As far as what I gave--1001 Paintings to See Before You Die and a biography of Audrey Hepburn to my sister; Anna Quindlen's new book to my mom. |
| DudeDrops | Posted – 1/18/2008 9:35:25 PM | show profile I GAVE... Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield Vox by Nicholson Baker Lost Girls by Alan Moore (fairy tale erotica at its most highbrow) I RECEIVED... The Big Question by Chuck Barris |
| editpyschic | Posted – 1/29/2008 2:34:18 AM | show profile | email poster One of the books shown My brother gave me The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao/Junot Diaz and Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying, both of which I'm really excited about (but made myself finish all the books I was in the middle of first). I gave my mother An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family, an anthology edited by Nell Casey, which she's already read and given to her sister. |
| wineaux | Posted – 1/29/2008 11:28:34 AM | show profile I gave a Magnolia Bakery cookbook to someone who professed interest in making their treats I was given Heat by Bill Buford, and I started it last night. Fascinating, hilarious, and frightening all at the same time. I can't wait to pick it up again tonite right before bed. |
| Laurie.Lavender | Posted – 1/31/2008 1:15:43 AM | show profile eat pray love from my mom. english is her second language so needless to say she never reads any english language books besides fashion and lifestyle magazines. so coming from her (she read about the book in a magazine) i definitely promised to read it. |
