For regular Book Nook readers, this post is a part of this weekend's Read.Read. READ-A-THON, but you're more than welcome to participate!
One of my favorite gifts to give at this time of year is a book. This year, for example, I'm giving a copy of Hunger Games and The Mysterious Benedict Society (and no, I'm not going to tell you to whom, sneaky family and friends!). I can't wait to share these books!
How about you...what book(s) are you giving this holiday season? If you can share without spoiling it, who are you giving the book to and why?
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I have already bought it,3 copies of The Hunger Games for some of my family members. Maybe next year Catching Fire?? :P
ReplyDeleteI plan on giving a lot of books to family and friends this holiday season. I'm really not sure which ones yet. I am thinking that I'll give my boyfriend's mom a copy of The Help by Kathryn Stockett because it is about race issues and this is something that she enjoys reading about. My mom is just getting into vampire books so I might buy her the Twilight series. She already borrowed my Sookie Stackhouse series and I don't know if she's going to return them or not!
ReplyDeleteI was planning on getting books for everyone, but it hasn't worked out very well for me. :( I do think I'm going to get a couple books for my boyfriend though. For his birthday I got him Watchmen and V for Vendetta and for last Christmas I got him Fluke by Christopher Moore. I might get him something by Chuck Klosterman because he really liked Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs.
ReplyDeleteI'll be giving copies of Sugar by Bernice McFadden and Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about getting a copy of SuperFudge for my nephew this Christmas. I loved all those books as a kid, and he's just about the right age to start reading them! Anyone else love those ones? "Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great" is another :D
ReplyDeleteBethany: And then the year after that, book 3! Yeah right, once they read Hunger Games, they'll be hooked and buy them themselves!
ReplyDeleteAshley: The Help's a good idea. I want to read that myself...but there's about 600 people in front of me on the waiting list at the library!
I am going to give one of my sisters a copy of The Hunger Games. For another one, I am going to look for a nicely bound copy of something classic.
ReplyDeleteIt's an old book but I'm giving my friends copies of Pearl Buck's "Pavilion of Women." it's a great story of learning to appreciate what you have.
ReplyDeleteReads4Pleasure: Good choice. I actually read that last year (I think?) at the recommendation of another reviewer on this blog.
ReplyDeleteBecause I can share here without worry of him seeing it, I will tell you that I bought my husband a whole bunch of books that he's been wanting on Roman history. He's obsessed with the stuff and was drooling over a few books the other day when we were at B&N.
ReplyDeleteI'm giving my 14-uear-old sister The Hunger Games. Just about every book blogger I know has read and praised it.
ReplyDeleteWe won't spent our Christmas at home this year (we moved to China recently) but I will absolutely give my husbandbooks ;-). Still need to go and buy though and will do so in the coming week. Hope (not always easy here) to find him some Umberto Eco he doesn't have.
ReplyDeleteFor my stepmother I have bought 2 books - Lucinella by Lore Segal and 'Consider the Oyster' by MFK Fisher, she loves to read but you have to get her obscure books since she has just about everything. For my boyfriend I got a hardcover 3-in-1 of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy.
ReplyDeleteEven though I didn't like it, I bought Hunger Games and Catching Fire (which I do like) because I know that the people I bought them for will like them... plus they were ridiculously affordable on Amazon. I bought The Gallagher Girls first two books, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You, and Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy (Ally Carter) for three different people. And I bought: Prophecy of the Sisters (Michelle Zink), Eyes Like Stars (Lisa Mantchev), and Beautiful Creatures (Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl) for different people too. Hmmm... what else? Oh, I just bought *top secret* Princess of Landover (Terry Brooks) for Monster.
ReplyDeletecessie... you moved to China? How intriguing!
A couple books that I bought for this Christmas, a copy of Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman for a friend with a new baby girl. And I got my Book Blogger Holiday Swap partner a book from their wishlist. :)
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