What books for Christmas

[Viviennemary]

What books did you get for Christmaor or buy yourself? I saw this book when I was browsing round Amazon. Sounded quite intriguing. Translated from Japanese. Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu kawaguchi. In a small back alley in Tokyo there is a cafe that's been there for 100 years. If you sit in a certain seat you can go back in time. Hope it's as good as it sounds.

I've used an amazon voucher to buy Finger Smith. I got the idea from a thread on here the other day about books with a big twist. I have high hopes 👍

I'm not long finished Finger Smith. It's a good book. DW got me Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy which I'm looking forward to with some Bailey's later.

I've asked for Vinnie Jones book from my sister and the new Victoria Wood biography from my nephew. My Mum's getting me Dan Walkers book of interviews.

I bought myself The Address Book, The Shark and the Albatross and The Age of Islands which have been on my wish list for a while and all dropped in price.

I did well!

DH got me the new Nigella cookbook. Against his better judgement as I have many many cookbooks already.

Also got me the new Graham Norton.

DS got me Because of You by Dawn French and the Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. And he got Barack Obama’s new book between DH and I.

Love a nice pile of new books for Christmas!

I haven't received a single book.
Luckily I did an Amazon voucher which will be used on Kindle books.

The Decameron and The Left Hand Of Darkness. Bought myself. Hope to start later once DD asleep. Am completely excited about it.

Ian Rankin's Tooth and Nail, and Hide and Seek.

Autobiographies of Obama and of Kamala Harris. Massive US politics geek so I'm thrilled!

I got Ruth Bader Ginsburg biography, GB84, The looming tower, Letters to my younger self, Murder on Christmas Eve, In the ditch and two novels in German. Almost all as specifically requested by me.
Really got back into the reading habit this year.

I also got Captain Tom's book!

DB gave me The Thursday Murder Club and I bought the latest by Sara Paretsky for DH to give me as he's hopeless at choosing.

Talking Japanese novels I bought Ddad one for the first time - the Honjin Murders.

I really liked Before the coffee goes cold.

I got The Bear and the Nightingale trilogy so looking forward to getting stuck in.

The Little Library Year
Selected Poems of Robert Frost( Illustrated Edition)
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening( picture book)
Made in India
Cook Eat Repeat
Dear Reader( Cathy Rentzenbrink)
One by One( Ruth Ware)
Cross Stitch for the Soul

Dh had:-

Great Northern Express(Howard Mosher)
The Woods( Harlan Coben)
The Thursday Murder Club
Fifty Fifty
The Devil and the Dark Water
Extraordinary People( Peter May)
Iron Lake(William Krueger)
RHS Gardening Through the Year

Before the Coffee gets Cold in on my TBR pile, I've read a few Japanese novels this year and loved them all.

For Christmas I have a relatively disappointing Jólabókaflóð:
Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson
If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho by Anne Carson
A Maigret Christmas: And Other Stories by Georges Simenon
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis

All good but I gould have done with more! Luckily I have a good amount on my Waterstones card so will be having a visit there soon to add to my TBR pile.

I got £100 of vouchers. I know Amazon is frowned upon here but I have a Kindle where I do most of my fiction reading these days.

I have just ordered the final instalment of Louis de Berniere’s trilogy and once I’ve finished my current book I am going to start from the beginning.

I’m signed up to BookBub and generally look out for things on my daily email so this voucher could go a long way.

I was planning The Empire of Things by Frank Trentmann but am contemplating audiobook.

Now off to indulge in all your gifts and books for ideas.

Oh The Thursday Murder Club. I’m going to need that. I might get a hard copy and leave it lying about for DS1.

Midnight Library by Matt Haig
English Pastoral by James Rebanks

Mary Berry Simple Comforts- I make loads of Mary’s recipes.
As it is in Heaven - Niall Williams (my brother bought it and recommended it)
The Island - Victoria Hislop

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
War Doctor - David Nott
Story of a Lost Child - Elena Ferrante
Yoga - A Manual For Life - Naomi Annand
Life on our Planet - David Attenborough

And a 700 page Margot Fonteyn biography that I'm going to swap for something else (Nice thought from my DH but don't think I'll read it)

I got
Hamnett by Maggie o’Farrell
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Hearts and Minds by..... I can’t remember!
The Thursday Night Murder Club by Richard Osman

Also I just purchased A Man called Ove to read for my book group.

These 😊😊!

Nothing. Not a single person got me a book - considering how much I read I was very sad.

Got five mugs though 🙄

Coriander buy yourself some books as a new year present!