What books did you get for Christmas ?

[wheelybahhumbug]

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.

i got Jools Hollands autobiog, i love him.

Niecie you can probably get Cranford pretty easily at the library, secondhand bookshop or as v cheap classics edition.

or a Cranford with glossy tv tie in cover !!

Nymphadora: I enjoyed the Shakespeare one very much - but then I love Bill Bryson and would probably be happy to read his shopping lists.

Donnie: A colleague lent me "The Other Side Of The Bridge" as she loved it so much. I must admit, it didn't really do it for me but then I'm a cynical old so and so who has to "critique" everything - hope you enjoy it as much as my colleague did.

I got:
this
A book about the Suffragettes
A book about the Man In The Ice and a book about the Egyptians.
No novels, unfortunately but hopefully will get some for my birthday instead.

Esme Lennox was very, very good. Read that a few months ago.

How sad and pathetic am I - but with no one to buy me presents this year I took some money and raided the local Cancer Research shop. To feel good about my purchases

Have so far read Marley & Me which was fair enough, as a dog owner (till evil-ex took him away) I could relate quite a lot with it!

Am currently reading The Insider by Piers Morgan which is, like the papers he edited, a bit of fluffy nonsense but light entertainment for these dark nights. I also have an Elizabeth Gaskell book and a book on Mary Queen of Scots to get through.

From Petticoat Tails to Arbroath Smokies: Traditional Foods of Scotland

Anyone want it?

meeeeeeee

seriously, i'd love that book. i may hvae to put it on my birthday list.

O.K
I ought to read it first since it was from little bro' and he might ask but I'll send it on after for p &p if you tell me how.

From Here To Paternity

P.S. I love you

and for my birthday in a couple of days;

Mister God and Anna (all 3 books in one)

I didn't get a single book this year. The last time that happenened was when I was about seven yo, I should think. Still, it's good excuse to go and treat myself in a bookshop!

Good grief, courtesy of MN, I've just realised that I've told a blatant LIE!!!! I received the Ladybird Book of Boys & Girls, lol!!!!!

I spent hours wallowing in nostalgia, remembering the happy days when Ladybird books encouraged us to lie on the parcel shelf of the car to make the journey pass more quickly and told us to lick batteries and wield hammers and saws to our heart's content.

But that's not a real book, is it? It's a picture book and they don't count.

I like US magazines, CF, they're like a window onto a different world. And subscriptions are soooo cheap. I arranged a sub to Marie-Claire for my DIL and it cost me the princely sum of $3 for a year!!!!!!!! (Nb, I got her other things as well, in case you were wondering, not that Amazon has delivered them yet. )

I stock up on UK mags to take back to Nigeria as they're either unavailable or v expensive there. I often end up not reading them as I'm always saving them for a rainy day and can never judge whether it's wet enough to break them out yet.

I got Can any mother help me? It's brilliant, just like a mumsnet of the past like you say wheely.
Also got the view from here by Joan Bakewell, started it today.

Wall & Piece - a collection of Banksy works. Brilliant.

Good Granny Recipe Book thing by Jane Fearnley. Full of good, easy cooking, a nice contrast to all the poncey ones. I have a full bookcase of cookery books in the kitchen but it's always an ancient Marguerite Patten that tells me how to make a plain toad-in-the-hole or ginger biscuit.

the Bansky book sounds great ! love Marguerite Patten too

Marguerite Patten c. 1971 - I never knew how versatile a tin of mandarins could be. Heavy use of condensed milk too! But the baking is flawless.

she is always good on the tv or radio

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!

would love the Mitford sisters letters !

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

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!

'the tenderness of wolves'

can't wait to start!