Lorlie

I got for myself, A thousand Rising Suns, by Khlaiene something, about pre-Taliban
Afghanistan and the lives of two women
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It was such a simplistic engrossing read that I did it in three sittings.

Would really recommend it.

Lorlie

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lordofhats

I got:

I Am America (And So Can You), very funny.
Way of the Warrior, the Fighting Man Through the Ages
The Free Masons
300, the Original Graphic Novel

I sort of disagree. I'm never disappointed when I get a gift card/cash (They are mighty useful), but I do prefer to get an actual present to tear the wrapper off.

Gift cards and cash just screams to me that the sender was to lazy to go get an actual gift, or too stupid to ask what kind of gift I would like. I make exceptions for grandma because she's really in no condition to leave her home anymore. I think that's just because of the way I was raised though.

Its spelled "Heinlein" Olly. Don't worry though, it took me five years to start spelling his name right.

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Jebus

I received Daughters of the Forest by Juliet Marillier. I read it in about 7 hours and it seemed to drag in the narration. The description wasn't all that bad. Eh, not that bad of a book although I wasn't expecting it.

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"Praise me, Enchant me
Demand a vow, a façade.
Rule me, control me.
Suspend my anxieties.
Tell me a falsity.
Whisper me a deceit."

SadLuckDame

Gift card, what a wonderful bit of plastic!

I put mine to good use as well and bought: The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll, Jack Kerouac's: Visions of Cody and The Dharma Bums, as well as a book sale where with Christmas money I was able to buy Catcher in the Rye J.D Salinger, plus poetry books: John Keats, Walt Whitman's, T.S. Elliot (so I don't need to google search their work anymore, lol)

I must of been nice this year

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Well, it was a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadn't been for that nasty Knight, that came wriggling down among my pieces. Kitty, dear, let's pretend -- -" And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favorite phrase "Let's pretend."
written by Lewis Carroll

Olly Buckle

Lord of hats:- Thanks for the correction, too lazy, not to, you had it right elsewhere in the post. If you are interested in warfare The history of The Art of War in the Middle Ages in two volumes by Sir Charles Oman kept me head down for days on end and John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) Biography of Oliver Cromwell is also good. More recently Rupert Smith The Utility of force: The art of war in the modern world is tough reading but well worth it for the ideas.
SadLuckDame:- You have some lovely choices there, my youngest daughter asked me to read her Alice when she was a little girl, I was unsure, wondered if ther language would be too archaic, but she lapped it up, T.S. Elliot Lovesong of Alfred J Prufrock is my all time favorite poem, though I am not so keen on some of his later work. I remember my mother reading me Old Possum's practical cats at bedtime when I was a little boy, The younger daughter got Catcher in the Rye for Christmas along with Grapes of Wrath having just read Of Mice and Men at school and being totally enthralled by it.

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I had a tremendous advantage in life, at the age of eighteen I caught polio and for eighteen months was totally paralysed except for my eyes. Milton Erickson

Just Me

I got two giftcards to Barnes and Noble: one for $15 and one for $25.

On the gift card v. gift debate, part of me is glad that I get to choose my own books now, but the other part of me wishes that I wasn't left with the decision of WHICH two or three (or if I choose wisely, maybe four) books to buy. When I go to the library I can take out as many books I want but buying books feels so special to me that I need to carefully select which books I want....

Obsessive Compulsive, much?

strangedaze

Gould's Book of Fish from someone else, Foreskin's Lament from myself, to myself. Both are good.

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SadLuckDame

Olly~I bought Alice mostly for myself, as you'll soon see how much I'm taken to living in the strange, but I am reading it a loud with my 7 year old daughter, she too is lapping it up. The only downside to this is that she continues to stop me asking "why was it written that way? When in the MOVIE it was such and such?" Oh sweet child, she will soon discover how movies and books just do not ebb and flow.
Your selection of books for the family are in very nice taste, will stick with them through the years, very agreeable and as to The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, indeed there will be time, and I for one need to learn a stitch of patience, that there will be time. My favorite piece from it is~
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare? and, "Do I dare?"
Time to turn back and descend the stair

And just to add, my favorite poem so far from T.S Eliot has been "Macavity: The mystery Cat". It is so brilliant! I can't help but giggle and have a picture of a friend pop into mind, funny how this friend is the one to have first shown me the poem. As well as "The A-dressing of Cats", what terrific little pieces and humorous how faces pop into mind that fit so well to the descriptions.

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Well, it was a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadn't been for that nasty Knight, that came wriggling down among my pieces. Kitty, dear, let's pretend -- -" And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favorite phrase "Let's pretend."
written by Lewis Carroll