What books did you all get for Christmas?

[FiveGoMadInDorset]

DH as very generous

Me Cheetah - a spoof autobiography by 'Cheetah'
Glister - John Burnside
When we were Romans - Matthew Kneale
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
Gods behaving badly - Marie Philips

From SIL

Suite Francais

That little lot will keep me busy for a while.

Only one, unusually - the new Stephen King short story collection. I am saving it for New Year's Eve for an early night!

The Seance by John Harwood (read a few pages and looks good)
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Cooking for Friends by Gordon Ramsey

and Dear Fatty by Dawn French

Only 2 - Bill Bryson's Shakespeare & 60 Years of Woman's Hour.

I got a lot of graphic novels, which dh has decided I should read!!!

Ultimates 1 and 2 (but he did get me the ironman dvd, so acceptable follow on storyline)

Watchmen (film out soon)

X-Men Endangered Species and Messiah Complex oh and Heroes book 2.

I got Chocolate & Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

I got Dear Fatty as well.

Capricornia by Xavier Herbert - a history of Australia written in the 1930s but republished. Looks good.

The Appeal by John Grisham. Not enjoying it though - I sneaked a look at the last pages and the baddies win!

Quite unusually low on the book front this year.

Sophie Kinsella - Do you remember me ? It was my guilt free boxing day read - read in a day, truly terrible.

Nancy Mitford - In Pursuit of Love. About to start, to make up for above.

£10 book voucher for browsing (DH knows I like to have the excuse to buy books).

Normally get many more than this. Actually there wasn't a lot out that I wanted although lots about to come out in paperback that I want. DH got 5 though and he usually gets 1 !

I am a voracious reader, but yet again I got

NONE

Alan Carr and some £ to spen on Amazon (spent!).

Turned Out Nice Again: The History of Light Entertainment - Louis Barfe (so non-fiction)

Aberystwyth Mon Amour

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.

Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell

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

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.)

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

Cecelia Ahern The Gift

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.

none.

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

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

Psycho - you still have presents coming

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

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.

Loads of ideas for my birthday and then I am going on a self imposed book buying ban until I have read the huge pile that on the shelves above our bed which fell off last night and woke us up

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)