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So what books did you get for Christmas?

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Lifeinagoldfishbowl · 27/12/2009 13:38

and what books are you buying with your gift vouchers?

I got a 10 pack of Pann books including;

Bitter Sweets - Roopa Farooki
Crazy as chocolate - Elisabeth Hyde
The first assistant - Claire Naylor

(Which I have read before)

The last anniversary - Liane Moriarty
A small part of me - Noelle Harrison
The Alphabet sisters - Monica McInerney
At a time like this - Catherine Dunn
Good Harbor - Anita Diamant
Recipes for a perfecct marriage - Kate Kerrigan
The adultery clb - Tess Stimson

I want to buy turn of the screw with my vouchers - and not sure what else

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cyteen · 29/12/2009 17:09

A load of Dickens, on request
A vegetarian cookbook that looks quite poncey
Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry

Not much this year, since I'm up to the eyeballs in MA reading.

KateF · 29/12/2009 17:02

I got The White Queen (Philippa Gregory), Lustrum (Robert Harris), The Scarpetta Factor (Patricia Cornwell) and The Baboons Who Went This Way and That (Alexander McCall Smith) - my smallest Christmas haul for years!

Am halfway through The White Queen and finding it one of her better ones but that may be because I'm more interested in the Plantagenets than the Tudors.

Swedington · 29/12/2009 17:00

I got Ted Hughes Birthday Letters
Tim Harford book title forgotten
Freakonomics
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle (which my MIL tried to borrow, having mistaken it for the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown )

busymummy3 · 29/12/2009 16:56

chunkykitkat what is the winter queen like I love Philippa Gregory and have read most of her books so far

busymummy3 · 29/12/2009 16:55

the lost symbol dan brown
small island andrea levy
and
the time travellers wife

JaneiteQuiteRight · 29/12/2009 16:51

I didn't get a single book this year - am still astonished.

wigglybeezer · 29/12/2009 16:49

DH got me
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper - Lives in Art
(Pre-selected by me)

-the kind of thick, intelligent biography that i only have time to read at the tail end of the year, i am loving it.

I am having a mid-twentieth century phase as a rest from the nineteenth century (and the 21st obviously).

ChunkyKitKat · 29/12/2009 16:46

Another Kate Atkinson here - One Good Turn. Really good read!!

Jo Brand's autobiography

The Winter Queen - Phillipa Gregory

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

MrsJohnDeere · 29/12/2009 16:40

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Monty Don - Ivington Diaries
Amanda Vickery - Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England
Shirley Williams autobiog
Nigel Slater veg book
Heston Blumenthal - Fat Duck Cookbook
Chinese cookery book
Daily Mash book

GracieW · 29/12/2009 16:19

I got 2 Ken Follett books - IL's wanted something to keep me going til next Christmas

Also MIL lent me Guernica and have a couple of library books that are due back this week so have lots to read.

Hurrah!

littlerach · 29/12/2009 10:29

Thanks Wheelybug, I'm trying to decide which to read first

My sister and mum are always happy to buy me books, as is dh.
And a couple of friends always buy me them for my birthday.

I love to get books, and also like ot give them as presents.

KurriKurri · 28/12/2009 18:44

I got the latest Stuart McBride, and latest Mark Billingham (mind gone blank for titles!),

Wolf Hall (late b'day present, so opened it Xmas) and this - not usually my kind of thing but I read the first one when I was ill and really enjoyed it.

cheesesarnie · 28/12/2009 17:09

the first twilight book which i found odd as have no interest in vampires etc.plus another book that ive not heard off but doesnt look very interesting.

foxinsocks · 28/12/2009 17:04

I got None for the first year ever too

feels quite strange really

have huge pile next to bed to finish anyway (am reading William Boyd Ordinary Thunderstorms at the moment)

tillyfernackerpants · 28/12/2009 17:00

flame, lucky you!

Flame · 28/12/2009 16:48

Nope, my family and DH all love books too so it is fine. Never ask my dad for books though, mainly as it is much easier for him to get books wrong.

tillyfernackerpants · 28/12/2009 16:33

Out of curiosity & slightly OT, does your dh/family moan when you ask for books? Mine do, 'but that's boring, that's all you ever ask for'. So far they don't seem to have got the hint that yes I do want books, I don't need another set of pjs/bath sets etc

MrsSantaChemist · 28/12/2009 16:22

I got The Defence of the Realm, the Authorized History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew.

Have wanted it for ages

deaddei · 28/12/2009 16:18

NONE.
Ist year ever.
But got vouchers so may get the Dragon Tattoo series.

Wheelybug · 28/12/2009 16:12

Little Rach - I loved the reluctant fundamentalist. Also the Bolter was pretty good !

Trikken · 28/12/2009 15:11

The Subtle Knife.-philip pullman

tillyfernackerpants · 28/12/2009 14:59

I got Stephen King's Under the Dome and Me Cheetah: The Autobiography. I really wanted the Sookie Stackhouse books as well!

Dh admitted that the Cheetah book he quite fancied reading himself which is why he bought it, I think he realised he made a bit of a mistake there! So I went to Waterstones & got the first couple of SS books to get started!

littlerach · 28/12/2009 14:47

Just been and bought
The Bolter and
The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

DuchessOfAvon · 28/12/2009 14:25

I didn't get a single book.

I really hoped that someone would get me Wolf Hall. Very that it didn't materialise. I shall have to put in a request at the library.

I read Theft by Peter Carey courtesy of the local charity shop and I enjoyed it. He is one of those authors I have to psych myself up to read but do actually get a lot from once I have made the effort.

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Lifeinagoldfishbowl · 28/12/2009 13:43

So Sea of Poppies and True Blood books were popular presents

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