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What books did you get for Christmas ?

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wheelybahhumbug · 30/12/2007 17:01

Me -

Can Any Mother help me ? Not started yet.

Shopoholic and baby ? () Obviously read in an afternoon after our christmas guests left yesterday. Twas rubbish as expected but a bit of light relief

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Started today, am enjoying so far but is a bit sad.

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Sunshinemummy · 03/01/2008 12:25

Also bought DP The Damned United which I am really looking forward to pinching.

SilentTerror · 02/01/2008 21:35

Always get loads of books thank goodness!
This year-
Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson,about the 'surplus' generation of women after the First World War
Nella Last's War
Agent Zigzag
Trinny and Susannah's latest
The American Boy.
Wallowing in the first at the moment!

MaryAnnSingleton · 02/01/2008 20:44

thanks KM1 - I should get it myself really !

mustsleep · 02/01/2008 19:05

i got none

but bought myself martina cole - faces
for £4 in the sale at wh smiths!!

RosaLuxMundi · 02/01/2008 18:52

DH got two copies of the Andrew Marr book - one from my Mum, one from his Dad. What to do with the extra copy?

KM1 · 02/01/2008 18:32

Hello MaryAnneSingleton - thought you might be interested in the Armistead Maupin with a name like yours!! I'll let you know what I think when I've read it.

1066andallthat · 02/01/2008 16:58

The Gathering X 2 - good choice, obviously .

I thoroughly enjoyed The Other Side of the Bridge, - it was a Christmas present, last year.

Lilymaid · 02/01/2008 16:57

Also received Posy Simmond's latest: Tamara Drewe (modern day Far From the Madding Crowd) - lovely to read an illustrated novel!

Bink · 02/01/2008 16:51

Austerity Britain for me (by request, but deliberately requested from my parents who "remember it very well, pre consumer society" - as their Amazon giftslip said).

People in extended family all merrily exchanging Posy Simmonds's recentest, plus cookbooks about epitomes of 70s food.

MaryAnnSingleton · 02/01/2008 16:51

KMI - will you report back on the Armistead Maupin,please !

KM1 · 02/01/2008 16:41

I got -
Over - Margaret Forster
Becoming Jane Austen - Jon Spence
Michael Tolliver Lives - Armistead Maupin (can't wait to read this!) and 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith which I have just finished reading (very episodic and a bit like an Edinburgh "Tales of the City"!)

MuffinMclay · 02/01/2008 15:57

On Chesil Beach
Shopaholic and Baby
Housewife, 49
Onion Dumb World atlas
Mrs Mills Answers All Your Questions
Heston Blumenthal cookbook

spanielsmom · 02/01/2008 15:41

A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon - am reading it now and really enjoying it loads
Salmon Fishing in Yemen
Two Caravans

I love it when my dh chooses books for me, because they are never ones I would choose for myself but they are great and take me away from my safety net. He has been very successful 3 years in a row, things I would never have discovered without him.

Sunshinemummy · 02/01/2008 15:40

I got the Anne Enright book, a guide to shopping online and the Moro East cookbook.

suedonim · 02/01/2008 15:34

I have 'Tenderness..' on my shelf in Lagos. I can't bring myself to read it in case it's so good that I'll be left with a gaping maw in my reading matter, what with books being a rare commodity there.

suedonim · 02/01/2008 15:31

Oh my, you get medicine ads on TV??? Brilliant - I want to move to the US! We have advert deprivation in Nigeria as there aren't any, except for Qatar Airways and Air France (Was v disappointed on my first AF flight recently to discover they don't actually have a swimming pool on board...)

SpottyHamster · 02/01/2008 15:28

Didn't get any but just bought Chesil Beach,(half price in waterstones) havn't finished it . Really good but think it might end up depressing?? (don't tell me Nympadora!)

TwoIfBySea · 02/01/2008 14:46

Expat Tenderness of Wolves is a damn fine read!

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RosaLuxMundi · 02/01/2008 01:08

I got Taste - a history of English food (or something like that)
The Verneys by Adrian Tinniswood
And in my stocking - The Putney Debates.

expatinscotland · 02/01/2008 01:03

'the tenderness of wolves'

can't wait to start!

suedonim · 02/01/2008 01:03

Lol @ four subscriptions! I lurvvve the prescription ads in US mags, just because they're not permitted in the UK, and I have been known to read them all, right down to the last side effect.....

I take Country Living back to Lagos and a collection of other mags and have now started to collect catalogues as well, to remind myself of how life can be. Dd2 has a worrying propensity towards trashy mags like OK and Look. And I raid the airport lounge for freebies to stuff into my hand luggage on our outbound trips. Actually, having read all that back...I'm quite worried about myself!

tyaca · 02/01/2008 00:26

its all that it should be MaryAnn, superlatives, nonsensical nicknames and anecdotes about world leaders they had tea with that afternoon

MaryAnnSingleton · 01/01/2008 22:30

would love the Mitford sisters letters !

tyaca · 01/01/2008 18:59

i got looooaads. v pleased. and excited about all.

decca - jessica mitford letters
mitford sisters - collection of all their letters
three of the pullman sally lockhart books
one kids book by author of i, coriandor. forget name, of book but looks great.
shopaholic and baby

and best of all.... a companion book to antonia forest's novels ... didnt even know it existed!