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So what books did you get for Christmas?

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Lifeinagoldfishbowl · 27/12/2009 13:38

and what books are you buying with your gift vouchers?

I got a 10 pack of Pann books including;

Bitter Sweets - Roopa Farooki
Crazy as chocolate - Elisabeth Hyde
The first assistant - Claire Naylor

(Which I have read before)

The last anniversary - Liane Moriarty
A small part of me - Noelle Harrison
The Alphabet sisters - Monica McInerney
At a time like this - Catherine Dunn
Good Harbor - Anita Diamant
Recipes for a perfecct marriage - Kate Kerrigan
The adultery clb - Tess Stimson

I want to buy turn of the screw with my vouchers - and not sure what else

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littlerach · 27/12/2009 14:06

I got Sea of Poppies by Amitivh Ghosh

American Wife by Curtis Seigfeild (sp)

Very Valentine by Adraina Trigginai

Have somw waterstones vouchers and am looking forward to going tomorrow or Tuesday to look round.

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Lifeinagoldfishbowl · 27/12/2009 14:09

I have started Sea of poppies and was really enjoying it but started reading something else and forgot all about it [oops]

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roisin · 27/12/2009 14:15

Unusually, I haven't got any books! I normally get several, so I don't have things lined up to read. I've been dropping a few in an Amazon basket in case I didn't get them for Christmas, so I think it's nearly time to press [proceed to checkout]!

I have been reading/will read some of dh's and ds1's books though too.

swanriver · 27/12/2009 14:25

Well I bought Dh Lustrum by R Harris and Brooklyn by Toibin, am looking forward to reading them
No-one gave me any either...

MrsMuddle · 27/12/2009 14:26

I got Sea of Poppies, cellist of Sarajevo and The Other Hand.

Almost finished TOH and looking forward to starting Sea of Poppies tonight.

purpleturtle · 27/12/2009 14:30

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl who played with Fire
Wolf Hall

Given the sheer size of that last tome, I shan't need another for some time!

Southwestwhippet · 27/12/2009 14:47

My sister bought me the rest of the Lucia (EF Benson) collection - very happy as I only had the first two books, now have all siz .

Also my grandma-in-law bought me "Under the Dome" which is Stephen King's latest.

Wanted some 'light' early labour reading plus things to dip in and out of when baby is small so these are perfect.

TheFoosa · 27/12/2009 19:50

I got

this

& this

& this

winnybella · 27/12/2009 20:01

Beginners by Raymond Carver
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Under a Glass Bell by Anais Nin

All three from DP

southeastastra · 27/12/2009 20:08

jo brands look back in hunger and fortean times it happened to me!

Wheelybug · 27/12/2009 20:21

I got

Alexander McCall Smith - comfort of saturdays
A trashy one (me and mr darcy think its called)
What I think about when I think about running - harukami thingy (or is it thingy harukami)
Dr Zhivago
Paula - Isabella Allende

I have £20 waterstone vouchers and £10 amazon. Not sure what to get at the mo. Will keep until I see something I want I think.

southeastastra · 27/12/2009 20:44

bump - interesting thread

TheFallenMadonna · 27/12/2009 20:47

I got Time by Eva Hoffman and Molecular Gastronomy by Herve This, both from DH. I was pretty surprised, as the last book he gave me was The Belly Button Book...

MiaWallace · 27/12/2009 20:47

I got the true blood collection. Trying to race through the current book I'm reading so I can get started on them.

SolidGoldpiginablanket · 27/12/2009 22:21

I got:
Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyre (Squee! Squee! My favourite author)
The two newest Phil Rickman novels
Stephen King's After Sunset
And a biography of Dennis Wheatley.

I am very happy. And MN might be seeing a bit less of me over the next week or two.

StrictlyKatty · 27/12/2009 22:29

I got Lustrum by Robert Harris

Already started reading it and it's good so far.

stripeywoollensantahat · 27/12/2009 22:35

i got housekeeping by marilynne robinson - read home a few months ago and loved it so am looking forward to it.

Timesofhope · 28/12/2009 10:17

I got books 4-8 in the Sookie Stackhouse Series. Already over half way through book 4 and it was well worth the wait! Those who have read it will know what i'm talking about!

Flame · 28/12/2009 10:30

Three Christopher Brookmyre

Kate Atkinson - Case Histories

Oh and Bedknob and Broomstick

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Lifeinagoldfishbowl · 28/12/2009 13:43

So Sea of Poppies and True Blood books were popular presents

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DuchessOfAvon · 28/12/2009 14:25

I didn't get a single book.

I really hoped that someone would get me Wolf Hall. Very that it didn't materialise. I shall have to put in a request at the library.

I read Theft by Peter Carey courtesy of the local charity shop and I enjoyed it. He is one of those authors I have to psych myself up to read but do actually get a lot from once I have made the effort.

littlerach · 28/12/2009 14:47

Just been and bought
The Bolter and
The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

tillyfernackerpants · 28/12/2009 14:59

I got Stephen King's Under the Dome and Me Cheetah: The Autobiography. I really wanted the Sookie Stackhouse books as well!

Dh admitted that the Cheetah book he quite fancied reading himself which is why he bought it, I think he realised he made a bit of a mistake there! So I went to Waterstones & got the first couple of SS books to get started!

Trikken · 28/12/2009 15:11

The Subtle Knife.-philip pullman

Wheelybug · 28/12/2009 16:12

Little Rach - I loved the reluctant fundamentalist. Also the Bolter was pretty good !