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So what books did you get for Christmas?

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JollyOldSaintNikkielas · 26/12/2006 18:06

I got.......

Craig Brown -The Tony years
Peter Kat-The sound of laughter
Ceclia Ahern-A place called here
Roddy Doyle-Paula Spencer
Irvine Welsh-Secrets of the master chefs

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Pruni · 27/12/2006 16:56

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JoolsToo · 27/12/2006 17:12

I didn't get any books
dh got - Peter Kay, The Sound of Laughter and an Atlas of the Universe

ShinyHappyStarOfBethlehem · 27/12/2006 17:13

I got Home With God by Neale Donald Walsh and An Angel Saved My Life by Jacky (someone or other; can't remember and can't be bothered to go find book)

spykid · 27/12/2006 17:14

A Wayne in a Manger
Jonothan Strange &Mr Norrell
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
The Island
Cook, J. Oliver

singsalot · 27/12/2006 21:29

the queen amang the heather (the life of belle stewart) by sheila stewart - my mum got this for me

and at last

the private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner by james hogg, very heavy hints to dh about books I wanted this year, so I am happy to have a book to read...

janeite · 30/12/2006 16:40

The new Stephen King one; a fashion book; a rhyming dictionary to encourage me to get writing poetry again and a veggie cookbook.

fullmoonfiend · 30/12/2006 16:54

Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett (It's lovely though I read it in 24 hours
Food for Free - Richard Mabey (updated version from the 70s, very glossy but not as good, somehow as the original...)
the IQ Book of Genral Ignorance (everything I thought i knew is wrong!)
End in Tears - Ruth Rendell - not one of her best.

Need something new to read NOW

cheeryface · 30/12/2006 16:59

torey hayden - twilight children

turquoise · 30/12/2006 17:01

Rapture, The World's Wife, and Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy - which I'd asked for.
Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser which was a complete surprise, but lovely.
Didn't get the Rupert Everett one which I'd rather fancied, but will now get in the sales!

christie1 · 31/12/2006 20:48

I got ian rankins latest rebus book. I love, love love them. I almost hate to start it because then it will end.

wethreekingsofORINOCOare · 31/12/2006 21:16

I got Cross - James Patterson - it's rubbish (but then again I think his books have been going steadily downhill recently)

I also got a couple of Jeffrey Deavers HonorMAGIpoeia

singersgirl · 02/01/2007 20:49

"The Faber Book of Love Poetry" from the DSs because "you like poetry and we love you" and "The Writer's Yearbook" from DH, though that doesn't really count.

Am a bit disappointed in lack of proper books, and have already read DH's "An Inconvenient Truth". Will be going to the library tomorrow.

Troutpout · 02/01/2007 20:59

I got The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon...from my mum
I'm actually enjoying it..its not one i would probably have picked for myself

RosaLuxembourg · 03/01/2007 17:56

Amo Amas and all that or whatever its called - the Latin lover one.
The People's History of the Civil War by Diane Purkiss
A biography of John Donne.
No fiction but am looking forward to reading The Alchemist's Daughter which DH got and is reading atm.

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PanicPants · 03/01/2007 18:06

Peter Key - sound of laughter
Barbara Erskine - Daughters of fire
Dean Koontz - The Husband
Stephen King - Izzies story
Michael Palin

Dp got

New Andy McNab
New Ian Rankin
New Chris Ryan

clerkKent · 04/01/2007 12:29

Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science
by A.K. Dewdney

The Pig That Wants to be Eaten.. Julian Baggini

Subscription to Slightly Foxed (thanks for the idea NQC)

Schott's Almanac 2007

NAB3 · 04/01/2007 12:35

The Trinny and Susanna sort out your life.

Strictly Come Dancing

My Best Friend's girl

hewlettsdaughter · 04/01/2007 12:52

I got the new one by Susanna Clarke here

bundle · 04/01/2007 13:03

the Mrs Beeton biog

bakedpotato · 04/01/2007 13:09

Helen Simpson's Constitutional from my sister (excellent choice, but I've read it -- and was giving copies to her and my mum)
from SIL, Left Bank by Kate Muir and something recent by Alexander McCall Smith, neither of which sends me

eefs · 04/01/2007 13:18

I got:
digging to america - Anne Tyler (I didn't enjoy it, a bit twee)
The Known World by Edward P. Jones - really interesting so far but takes a bit of concentration to following all the interlinked lives.

I didn't get any of the books on my list

admylin · 14/01/2007 19:34

I got 3 books, couldn't carry anymore back to Germany as kids got books too but they were all brilliant - only trouble is I've read them all now and it isn't even half way through January. Withdrawl symptoms, no books left! Kite runner made me cry at some parts of it.

The red tent - Anita Diamant
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

thewoodlandfairy · 14/01/2007 20:53

just finished the red tent - loved it, i had it and the kite runner for xmas too, will get to that after i've done the time traveller;'s wife

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