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Did You Get Books for the Holidays?

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Post by Ash » Sat December 26th, 2009, 2:46 am

Whoa, Sonia, you made that little gift card go a long way! Happy reading!

Speaking of gift cards, my MIL gave me several, one each from my favorite bookstores, bless her heart. Pretty incredible considering she hasn't read a book since HS, and never had books in her house, but loves to support my habit. Love it!

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Post by Divia » Sat December 26th, 2009, 3:16 am

[quote=""robinbird79""]No books. No gift cards. No money.

I can't complain about what I got...but darn. Gonna use some of my leftover Christmas shopping money to get a couple. :) [/quote]

I have to say that sucks. And personally I get a tad annoyed when I say to people look at my wishlist or get me a gift card to a bookstore and people dont like to do it because they feel its the easy way out.

Its like HELLO. I read books. I love historical fiction. I love the Victorian era. I like to do research on this time period. Its like a hobby. If I had a Wii or had some other type of hobby people wouldn't think twice about getting me something for that hobby. Why is it so hard for people to buy books?
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Post by Nefret » Sat December 26th, 2009, 4:22 am

I got one. It was about the Egyptian pyramids. :)

And I am ordering myself a couple biographies tomorrow with X-mas money.

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Post by gyrehead » Sat December 26th, 2009, 3:16 pm

No books. Which is pretty usual as my family and friends have figured out that I like to buy my own books. Unless it is a rare edition or my sister-in-law who works in publishing/publicity and has tons of contacts knows there is a rare arc of a book coming out she can get her hands on. But none of that this year. I think I dropped a bit too many hints about wanting to upgrade my computer center at home to match my work equipment as even gift cards were heavy in tech stores and only a couple of holdouts gave me the usually ubiquitous bookstore Gift Certificate.

It doesn't help that two of my older brothers, every time they are at my house, mutter I have too many books (so sorry that I changed one of the spare bedrooms into more library space at the expense of having somewhere to let the seething brood of siblings' spawn take their little nap; next time just go home when the tykes are tuckered instead of plunking down in front the tv and shuffling the channels every time there is a commercial break). Heresy I know. I'm still not convinced I share the same genes.

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Post by ejays17 » Sun December 27th, 2009, 7:45 am

Just a few this year - i had a lot on my wish-list but forgot to tell people until too late :eek: - a lovely illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland, the 2 Jane Austens I didn't have, and Tuck by Stephen Lawhead.
But my birthday's coming up in 2 weeks, so I'm living in hope that there's a lot more to come :D
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Post by LoveHistory » Sun December 27th, 2009, 1:43 pm

No books for Christmas, but my birthday is tomorrow so maybe I'll get some then.

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Post by Vanessa » Sun December 27th, 2009, 2:29 pm

I got three books for Christmas:

New York by Edward Rutherfurd
Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davies
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving

Secret Santa gifts from here and another:

The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
The King's Mistress by Emma Campion
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Post by Margaret » Sun December 27th, 2009, 7:40 pm

You see, I hid the one expensive present I got for my husband, and I can't for the life of me remember where!
That happened to me a couple of years ago, though not with an expensive present. I finally found it, many months into the next year!

It's risky for people to buy me books for Christmas, because if it's something sure to please, I'm very likely to have it already. This year, I thought I'd found a winner for my husband - Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes. In fact, it was such a winner that he got it for me, too! We had a good laugh about that. At least now we can both read it at the same time, instead of one of us having to wait. It's pretty good so far - a well-researched pirate adventure story in the Captain Blood tradition. I'll have a review up at HistoricalNovels.info in a few days.
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Post by G. Alvin Simons » Sun December 27th, 2009, 11:02 pm

Does a Kindle count? I also received $50 gift card from Amazon. For my desire of older reading material, the $50 will go a LONG way. I purchased both the entire Shakespeare & Sherlock Holmes collections for $1.98. Can you imagine? Not only was the price hard to beat it took less than 3 minutes for everything to download. It's also scary. I can see how someone could become addicted to this thing & download more things than they'll ever find time to read & possibly run up a large bill. I'll have to remember the Norse admonition to keep everything in moderation.
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Post by G. Alvin Simons » Sun December 27th, 2009, 11:10 pm

[quote=""Margaret""]That happened to me a couple of years ago, though not with an expensive present. I finally found it, many months into the next year!

It's risky for people to buy me books for Christmas, because if it's something sure to please, I'm very likely to have it already. This year, I thought I'd found a winner for my husband - Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes. In fact, it was such a winner that he got it for me, too! We had a good laugh about that. At least now we can both read it at the same time, instead of one of us having to wait. It's pretty good so far - a well-researched pirate adventure story in the Captain Blood tradition. I'll have a review up at HistoricalNovels.info in a few days.[/quote]

I look forward to reading your review. I considered purchasing this myself.
I've enjoyed most of Crichton's books with the exception of The Lost World. I must say that Jurassic Park was incredible. As I read TLW, however, I kept returning to double-check the cover to make sure I wasn't reading JP again! The plot remained the same - only the names were changed to sell more books...

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