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12-25-2001, 12:11 PM
|  | Rooster Duck | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Almost Philadelphia
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| |  Did Santa bring you any books? | |
...or did you find books along with your Hanukah gelt? Nary a book for me. No one ever buys me books.... (except for my Epinions buddies who know exactly what to get  ) My RL companions are too intimidated by my voracious buying habits -- they claim they wouldn't know what to get me. Silly them.
Anyhoo, no complaints from about what I did get, non-bookwise, just curious about what was under your tree/next to your candles.
I gave:
Two NY Times Crossword puzzle anthologies and a cultural literacy book to my mother-in-law
Various and sundry books to my kids, including three new Eyewitness series HB to science son, and several presidential biographies to history son.
Sopranos book and National Geographic photography guide to DH.
Faeries book to sister-in-law
Amazon and Half.com gift certificates to number of people who already know what they want to buy for themselves. Books! Books! Books!
I just books.
Oh, and I've hinted broadly to Santa a/k/a DH that I want to find this under the tree next year. http://eric-carle.com/jugglecatlitho.html
Just have to figure out how to skip the mortgage payment one month to be able to afford it! :p
Andrea
who really, really, really wants that lithograph
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12-25-2001, 02:00 PM
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My son got me "Christmas in Plains" by Jimmy Carter.
My husband got me some used books (stocking stuffers...) including an out-of-print romance by Erin Yorke (an English and Math teacher team I used to work with in the Bethpage NY School District.) I don't read romances unless they're written by people I know... |
12-25-2001, 02:02 PM
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Yep, he did.  I got two books about movies, a collection of Red Smith columns on baseball, Don DeLillo's White Noise, and Terry Pratchett's The Truth.
Ailsa
who helped Santa pick out some of those titles yesterday at Borders  |
12-25-2001, 03:26 PM
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No books for me 
But I got 5 CDs
The boys got me several DVDs. I knew it was a plot (I have been dead set against getting a DVD player and Dan was dead set on getting one).
But guess who played with all the buttons and all the "cool" stuff after Jurassic Park 3 was done playing.
I can always buy my own books. They don't know what I like anyways (except Stephen King and I already HAVE all of those).
Lynn
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12-25-2001, 03:27 PM
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No, but I got the next best thing: a gift certificate to Borders.
Ah, decisions, decisions. (Truth be told, I'll probably end up buying a DVD: Hitch's Notorious, perhaps) |
12-25-2001, 04:23 PM
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No books for me, although I did get a gift certificate to Barnes & Noble. I think everyone's too afraid to buy me books because I've probably got it already, or know where to get it cheaper somewhere else.
Cindy
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12-25-2001, 05:22 PM
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Four books under the tree for me -
Frank Rich's memoir 'Ghost Light'
A biography of E. A. Shepherd, the illustrator of the 'Pooh' books
Gielgud's biography
A book on famous dollhouses (I make them).
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12-25-2001, 06:53 PM
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A book on famous dollhouses (I make them).
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You never cease to amaze me.
When do you sleep?
Andrea
who is lucky to be able to make toast some days
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12-25-2001, 07:01 PM
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Hooray!
I got Madeleine L'Engel's "Time Quartet."
Happy happy happy.
Plus lots of fuzzy things. Fuzzy slippers, fuzzy throws, fuzzy sweaters, fuzzy pajamas, fuzzy thinking... oh wait. That wasn't a gift.
Julie |
12-25-2001, 07:23 PM
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No books for me but I did get money and since money can buy books I think you can guess what I’ll be doing mañana. |
12-25-2001, 07:36 PM
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I bought some books for my girls. (That way I get to read them, too.  ) Now we have those deliciously mischievous Snicket books (sure to please my 12 and 11 year-olds), a couple of books on chess (my eight year old joined the chess club and is really enjoying it), and the Time Quartet. My 11-year old boasts that those won't hold her for long. Sigh. Thank goodness for the public library!
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12-25-2001, 10:23 PM
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Three books this year. All appear to be winners, and all from my lovely wife.
First: The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon. Can't wait to read it.
Second: Peace Like a River, by I'm not sure who, but recommended by hadassahchana (thanks Cindy!).
Third: Girl with a Pearl Earring, a fictionalization of one of Vermeer's portrait sitters.
And I got a fuzzy sweater too, from my son.
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12-26-2001, 02:15 AM
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I gave several books:
The Purrfect Cat Book to cat-lover friends;
A History of God and The Best Cat Ever to an office mate;
The Wind in the Willows and The Really Big Book of Rhymes for my 5-year-old niece;
Fellowship of the Ring and Alice in Wonderland for my Harry-Potter-obsessed 12-year-old niece;
Matthew Brady's Pictorial Civil War to my brother-in-law, who considers history a wonder to behold.
I received several books:
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Gay Spirituality by Toby Johnson
The Depth of the Riches : A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age)
by S. Mark Heim
Guess which one was given by my theology professor... |
12-26-2001, 12:15 PM
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Yep, I got one new book this year however, it's not nearly on the same intellectual level as what you folks got .
It's the new Andrew Morton book on Madonna. YAY! |
12-26-2001, 02:34 PM
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One book: Homicidal Pscycho Jungle Cat. How's that for intellectual? It's a Calvin and Hobbes collection. I also got a subscription to the HornBook Magazine, which is a ll about children's books. |
12-26-2001, 06:28 PM
|  | Epinions Members | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Ohio
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| | Re: Did Santa bring you any books? | |
Quote: Originally posted by pluckyduck
...or did you find books along with your Hanukah gelt? | No books for me, but I gave:
David Sedaris' _Me Talk Pretty One Day_, _Naked_ and _Holidays on Ice_ to DH, figuring that reading about someone else's dysfunctional life would cheer him him--and it did.
Tomie, some creepy horror manga to my sister, per her request
a book of Chinese myths and fairytales to my MIL, which had some lovely artwork
Tolkien's _Fellowship of the Ring_ and Cecil Adams' _The Straight Dope_ to SIL
I like encouraging peoples' reading habits, plus...books are really easier to gift wrap.
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12-26-2001, 08:01 PM
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None for me
I did have a good library week two weekends ago though, so I have new reading material.
Janice |
12-27-2001, 11:14 PM
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For the first time that I can remember, I received no books this year. But I did give a lot away. In fact, we gave sets of books to all seven of my nieces and nephews, two of my son's friends, and nine different books to my son. What was even more exciting was that my boss gave me a copy paper box full of about 50 used picture books to give to my son. We wrapped the whole box and he got to open it Christmas Eve. We'll be reading for months before we get through them all (though, perhaps not since we read eight of them this afternoon).
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12-31-2001, 05:08 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by ms_n
Now we have those deliciously mischievous Snicket books ( | I'd like to rephrase that as 'deliciously dark' Snicket books! My daughter was just telling me about some of those unfortunate events. 
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