What books did you all get for Christmas?

FlossieT - what a great DS you have you will love Before Green Gables.
I got The Age of Wonders by Richard Holmes and Empire by Niall Ferguson.
I also got Beadle the Bard from DD1, because she wants to read it herself!
I did NOT get Pageturner's DH's book which I really wanted, but have left it on my Amazon wishlist as my birthday is not far away.

None.

Bought myself "The Reader" and the new Kate Atkinson one at the airport on New Year's Day though to make up for it. I also have a self imposed ban on book buying till I have read everything on the unread shelf in the spare room and everything on the cluttered "books I have read but want to read again" shelf in the study!

None and am really gutted.

Haven't started it yet - Dawn French has my attention atm - but looking forward to it. Reading in the bath is my guilty pleasure - while all hell breaks loose downstairs

Sphil - "Beadle The Bard" was my Christmas Eve present to myself and I read it in the bath once the girls were in bed. I really enjoyed it, mainly because of "Dumbledore's" notes about each story.

I am going into town tomorrow to try and find a coat but am half hoping that I don't find one so that I can spend my Christmas money from mil on books instead! I really fancy a huge new cookery book and some classics.

Only in America - Matt Frei
Larkrise to Candleford- Flora Thompson
The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
Children's Minds - Margaret Donaldson
The Victorians - A.N.Wilson
The End of an Error - Mameve Medwed
Stories from the Vinyl Cafe and Vinyl Cafe Diaries - Stuart McLean

Phew - didn't I do well?! I'm feeling incredibly guilty as dh (who is very into books - he used to have a bookshop) only got 3 books I'll have to do better when it is his birthday!

World Without End - Ken Follet (the "sequel" to Pillars of the Earth)
and
The Power of Now --Eckhardt Tolle

Started both, and have been enjoying immensely!!
I ususally never get books either, but we were in Borders on Christmas Eve amd I said "oooh, I've been wanting this book (Follett one) and my DH panick shopped while I got some coffee

The Siege of Krishnapur, but the writing is tiny! It took me ages to read two pages last night.

Austerity Britain

Book token to buy more books!

I buy loads of books all the time anyway, so people don't tend to buy for me.

NancysGarden: I have both TSOMW & TBITSP and was probably going to give them to charity. Do you want them?

The Road Home-Rose Tremain
Mister Pip-Lloyd Jones

Dear Fatty
Julie Walters autobiog
Succession Planting for Adventurous Gardeners
and Colour for Adventurous Gardeners by Christopher Lloyd
Beedle the Bard!
Inkdeath by Cornelia Funcke (have a bit of a thing for children's books)

I received The Village In The Jungle by Leonard Woolf. I also had a copy of 'I Can Haz Cheezburger?' but as we received four copies in total as a family I regifted mine to ds2.

I meant to buy Before Greengables for dh but forgot about it, grrr. I'll try to get it for his birthday instead.

Michael Tolliver Lives - Armistead Maupin...can't believe I haven't read it before

Psycho - you still have presents coming

Oh, and Before Green Gables - Budge Wilson (from DS1, bought with pocket money in church book sale. awwww.)

none.

I am going out to buy myself some books tho in the next week, to make up for it

24 for 3 - Jennie Walker (very good)
The Loudest Sound and Nothing - Clare Wigfall (excellent)
Don't Panic - Neil Gaiman (looking forward to, but DH unfortunately bought me a "vintage" 1987 copy that doesn't cover Mostly Harmless)
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians - Brendan Sanderson
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
Vanishing Cornwall - Daphne du Maurier (from Cornwall-dwelling grandmother-in-law)
Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose (although technically I bought this for myself and handed it to DH with instructions to wrap...)

I normally never get books either, but this year rather than just saying, oh, anything off my want-to-read list, I made very limited and specific requests. Seems to have worked quite well, for once.

Cecelia Ahern The Gift

6 different Sudoku books
3 different cake decorating books
and a little edward monkton book called "the lady who was beautiful inside" from DH

I wanted, suspicions of mr whicher and boy in the striped pajamas (but also wanted a cath kidston book of which I did get two, so can't be all bad.)

an angel on my shoulder theresa chung
I've read it already, it was great!!

Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell

I am also a voracious reader and as a conseqence I never get books for presents! Gutted!

But I went sales shopping today and treated myself to three books:
two Jostein Gaarder books because I've just read 'The Orange Girl' and it was sooooo good.
and also 'the games people play' by don't know who but have always wanted to read it.

Aberystwyth Mon Amour