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.

The Road Home-Rose Tremain
Mister Pip-Lloyd Jones

Austerity Britain

Book token to buy more books!

I buy loads of books all the time anyway, so people don't tend to buy for me.

NancysGarden: I have both TSOMW & TBITSP and was probably going to give them to charity. Do you want them?

The Siege of Krishnapur, but the writing is tiny! It took me ages to read two pages last night.

World Without End - Ken Follet (the "sequel" to Pillars of the Earth)
and
The Power of Now --Eckhardt Tolle

Started both, and have been enjoying immensely!!
I ususally never get books either, but we were in Borders on Christmas Eve amd I said "oooh, I've been wanting this book (Follett one) and my DH panick shopped while I got some coffee

Only in America - Matt Frei
Larkrise to Candleford- Flora Thompson
The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
Children's Minds - Margaret Donaldson
The Victorians - A.N.Wilson
The End of an Error - Mameve Medwed
Stories from the Vinyl Cafe and Vinyl Cafe Diaries - Stuart McLean

Phew - didn't I do well?! I'm feeling incredibly guilty as dh (who is very into books - he used to have a bookshop) only got 3 books I'll have to do better when it is his birthday!

Sphil - "Beadle The Bard" was my Christmas Eve present to myself and I read it in the bath once the girls were in bed. I really enjoyed it, mainly because of "Dumbledore's" notes about each story.

I am going into town tomorrow to try and find a coat but am half hoping that I don't find one so that I can spend my Christmas money from mil on books instead! I really fancy a huge new cookery book and some classics.

Haven't started it yet - Dawn French has my attention atm - but looking forward to it. Reading in the bath is my guilty pleasure - while all hell breaks loose downstairs

None and am really gutted.

None.

Bought myself "The Reader" and the new Kate Atkinson one at the airport on New Year's Day though to make up for it. I also have a self imposed ban on book buying till I have read everything on the unread shelf in the spare room and everything on the cluttered "books I have read but want to read again" shelf in the study!

FlossieT - what a great DS you have you will love Before Green Gables.
I got The Age of Wonders by Richard Holmes and Empire by Niall Ferguson.
I also got Beadle the Bard from DD1, because she wants to read it herself!
I did NOT get Pageturner's DH's book which I really wanted, but have left it on my Amazon wishlist as my birthday is not far away.