Books as Gifts
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Books as Gifts
I have never seen my daughter so happy as when she got about 10 of her favorite books for her birthday. She couldn't believe that we just gave her all books (which is what she wanted us to do). So for Christmas she is getting more books.
What books are you asking for or giving to others this holiday season?
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Another thing that is fun is to go and buy some fiction books from a thrift shop or yard sale. Then put a cover on it and block the title page (some people rip it out, but a envelope type paper sleeve works too and doesn't hurt my soul).. anyway then the person reads the book and has to try to figure out the title.
I would list some books on my list but... I don't feel they really even count as Christmas gifts... sine I'm going to get them regardless.. hahaha. So for me I guess I like it more when it is a surprise and not on my list... or the gift card to contribute to my list. haha. Honestly, I end up happy with whatever I get.
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I'm in complete agreement with you there. A good number of my friends book-read on a fairly regular basis (a handful are as avid as I am), and many of them are also in the midst of pursuing graduate and post-graduate degrees in the Arts and Humanities, so they always welcome books as gifts. Before giving someone a book, I would've done my homework on what their latest area of interest or research is, and then picked out something from the shelves I feel they would like. I do splurge on very close friends, getting them expensive or antiquarian books that they at some point mentioned in the course of conversation they wished they had but could not bear to spend on...and that goes vice versa. One of my closest friends recently headed over to Jerusalem to take her Masters in Hebrew, and before she left, she gave me a 1977 red leather-bound copy of "Pride and Prejudice" with gold-gilded page edges which was originally published by The Easton Press for someone's personal library collection. That was one of the best farewell-for-now gifts I ever received!MaragothThorn wrote:I believe books are some of the greatest gifts ever.
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Carpe Diem!
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She bought me my kindle, and keeps adding books to it...
Carpe Diem!
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