So what books did you get for Christmas?

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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

"Away" by Amy Bloom. Am finding it unputdownable.

I didn't get any from dp or db. First time ever.

SIL bought me a Cosmopolitan annual about the 70s and 80s.

A parent from school bought me 'The Sound of Butterflies' by Rachael King. This was a good read once it got flowing. I stayed in bed until 3.00pm on Monday to finish it!

I think my not so subtle hints about my huuuge amazon wishlist worked this year, as I got

The Elegance of the Hedgehoga very French book, which I loved and was quite bereft when I finished it yesterday

The Way we Live Now my first Trollope...

The Stories of Eva Luna

A Place of Greater Safety first Mantel, just about to start this!

and

thisas i was after a snazzy hardback to replace my tatty old well-loved copy

i already hada To Read Pile, now I have a To Read TOWER, it's great!

Can't believe you didn't get the latest KIng Janeite, thought that was a given

KK, I really liked Pillars and its sequel, pure escapism

Oh this thread has made me sad, I opened it too see what books you all were reading so that i might try some myself and then i realise that I didn't get a book this year because my granddad was the book giver and he's now dead

So sorry about your Grandad Buddleja. He must have been a book lover to give them to you, and you continuing to get pleasure from reading is a lovely way to remember him.

That's so sad, Buddleja.

I got the new John Irving book from my dad and the entire Adrian Mole series from my DH. I have never read them before and they are fascinating as I am pretty much Adrian's contemporary and it has reminded me of so much of my own history.

harry hill's tv burp

The Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier - almost finished it, its good but not as good as Rebecca, which I read for the first time earlier this year.

And the Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook - which is fab!

Not as many as I normally get unfortunately but I did get lots of other lovely things

Oh sorry I didn't mean to come in an be Oh so miserable!!

I am disappointed not to get any books - my dad usually gets me a book too (family tradition) but he got me a chair instead!!! (which was good otherwise he'd have had nothing to sit on to eat his dinner - lol)

Absolutely none, which is amazing. I was half expecting Stephen Fry's Last Chance to See or the latest David Attenborough

Ian Rankins new novel. Can"t wait to read it!!

I was reading your post too Buddlejah, everything I tried to type afterwards seemed glib after my previous post, thank goodness for other tactful Mnetters

i would be disappointed not to get any books too, the thing that seems to work for me is dropping huuuuuuuuuuuge hints throughout the year

Miss Read :- Early Days
Mrs Pringle of Fairacre
Christmas at Thrush Green.

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

Kate Harrison - The Secret Shopper Unwrapped

Cecilia Aherne - The Book of Tomorrow

Jodi Picoult - Picture Perfect

The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook and The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain.

A good haul. DH was slightly concerned that there was too much of a 'theme' with all the books but I'd rather have them than anything else, especially as they're all hardbacks (I only ever buy myself paperbacks because I'm stingy thrifty.)

I got
The Great Silence,Juliet Nicholson,about life after the Armistice in 1918
Family Britain,by David something or other,about life in the fifties
Three Emperors,cousins,by Miranda Carter about George V,Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas
Brooklyn,Colm Tobin
Have read the first one already and really enjoyed it.

I got The Name of the WInd by Patrick Rothfuss. It was excellent.

The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters

LaSoiDisantDame Place of Greater Safety is aces!

Bit late to this but love this l=kind of thread:

One day
her fearful symemtry
Twilight
2 by Patrick Gale