Books you got for 2015 holiday gifts

Hope it's okay yo start this topic. If not, please delete it, no hard feelings. Will post my books as soon as the grandchildren leave.

Got 3 yoga books, two of which were on my amazon wishlist and one which I really, really wanted:
The Power of Ashtanga Yoga II by Kino MacGregor
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Swami Satchidananda
The Yoga Cookbook by Sivananda Yoga Center

>2 framboise: That cookbook looks interesting.

I got four Japanese picture books, one of which is bilingual Japanese/English (with an oddly bad translation, but the illustrations are delightful). Plus Spectrum 22, which is a science fiction and fantasy art. Plus the audiobook for Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus.

Also several lovely book-related gifts:

- library checkout card coasters
- library checkout card socks
- two sets of bookends
- stained glass of book spines

My family knows me well. ;-)

I got two books for Christmas, and money to buy more. Will be placing an online order soon!

Both books were from my son, and are The Beat Goes On by Ian Rankin, which is a collection of Inspector Rebus short stories, and Agatha Christie at Home, a coffee-table book by Hilary Macaskill.

Order placed! Have ordered:

The Passage by Justin Cronin
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Kings and Queens of Great Britain by David Soud

Also ordered a cookbook for my son, and two movies.

Hi ahef 1963- happy holidays!! The Khalid Hosseini books are fabulous as is the Erik Larson Enjoy!!

Enjoy A Thousand Splendid Suns and The devil in the White City - fabulous books !

My wife bought me Red Shift by Alan Garner. Been after it for years.

My husband gave me Corrag. No other books as gifts, but I did receive some monetary gifts which will go toward buying books!

However, despite not receiving many books, I did get several book-related gifts, or gifts to decorate my library: colored glass wind chimes I've been admiring all year at my favorite art gallery, with a desire to hang it in my library window; a stained glass window hanger of books; a poster of Joseph Mills's poem, "If Librarians Were Honest."

>9 grkmwk:

I wonder if we got the same stained glass window hanger of books? Here's mine, a gift from my parents this year:



ETA: Well, crap, here we go again. I right click the photo in my junk drawer trying to get to "properties" but that isn't an option. Every freakin' time I try to post a photo in LT, I go through this.

Posting as a link instead. http://www.librarything.com/pic/5124499

>10 amysisson: Love the stained glass!

>10 amysisson: There has to be an easier way. I looked at the source code of the page with the photo and then pasted it.

This year, not a single person gifted me a book or even a gift card to a book shoppe! Apparently, according to them, I have too many books already ( that's not possible is it?).

>13 figsfromthistle:

Why, no. No, it's not.

>12 dianeham:

Thank you! I'm guessing I should be looking at the URL bar when I do that?

>No, not the url. You need to look at code, probably a right click but what you see with right click depends on the browser. I used a macbook with Safari, I right click and choose "inspect element." I haven't figured out how to do that on my ipad.

Every year and for every occasion I ask for Amazon gift cards in order to sate my quest for more and more books. Alas, the pleas and simplicity of gift giving for me falls on deaf ears. I get lovely, thoughtful gifts, but really, all I want are gift cards.

Right now I'm loving A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. Waiting in the wings are Kinfolk by Pearl Buck, I am Livia by Phyllis T. Smith and Worthy by Catherine Ryan Hyde, among several others. I've got a bunch of others that will also make the actual reading level of my collection, including some heavy duty non-fiction books. Still, I'm always on the lookout for more.

#16 vivienbrenda- I absolutely positively loved a man called Ove and am recommending it to everyone!!

12 dianeham Thank you for sharing the stained glass pic! Now I want one!

My sister and nephew sent me some books from my Amazon wishlist:

Gambling with the Enemy by Toni Leland
Unfinished Business: A Kovak & Quaid Horse Mystery by Toni Leland
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Art Journal Freedom by Dina Wakley

As gifts I gave my mother-in-law:

Crooked Letter Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

And my father-in-law:
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein

Merry reading everyone!

#16 - vivienbrenda - it's only been the last three years that I've had the bright idea of asking family members for books. I ask for specific books and have gotten quite successful at getting things I know I'll read. This year, however, my husband surprised me. He NEVER gets me books, but we've been watching the TV series Dexter and he had a great idea, all on his own).

From my cousins: The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph Ellis

From my daughter: Pacific: Silicon Chips and The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester

From my husband: Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter, and Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay

And, surprising and touching, Donna, a woman who works for me, conspired with my husband (we both work in the same department at a Tier 1 automative mfg supplier) to get me a $20 gift certificate to my favorite used bookstore. I plan on using it sometime in January, along with the $5.76 left over from a gift certificate from husband and daughter from 2 years ago.

>19 karenmarie: Your husband gave you 3 serial killer books, should we be worried? :)

I bought a first edition of Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner with an amazon gift card. Got some kindle books too but have to look them up.

#20 dianeham. I'm the one with the Colt 1911 Combat Commander and the NRA Conceal Carry Certificate. He's respectful.

:)

>22 karenmarie: glad to hear it. I was very fond of Dexter on tv. Miss it now that it's over.

>10 amysisson: Yes, that's the same one I received! I love it!