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OliviaFalconer
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:56 am


Time for the annual thread:

What did you get (book-wise) for Christmas?

My birthday is in December, so I get a jump on this. I've already gotten a gift card for Borders. I'm hoping for more for Christmas, so I can really go crazy.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:24 am


I havent gotten any yet, but i'm sure i will.

About half of my christmas list is books....the other half is cds...

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:10 pm


My friend gave me Tales of the Beedle and the Bard by J. K. Rowling, but Christmas Day hasn't arrived yet, so I don't know what my family got for me.
PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:21 pm


My mother gave me some early Christmas presents:

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
Red River by Lalita Tademy

I loved Tademy's book Cane River so I've been looking forward to this one.

Also I know that a friend of mine is buying me something by J.R.R. Tolkien. Other than this I am not sure if I will be getting any more books. I'm hoping for gift cards though.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:35 pm


Well, my brother's birthday is today, and he got a new Spiral manga, so now I get to read the previous one. smile

I actually haven't asked for any books this Christmas. There are plenty I want, but I'm just so far behind in reading the books already on my bookshelves, that I didn't ask for more. It's a sad state of affairs when you just can't cram anymore books onto the shelves. Of course, if my grandfather hadn't just had hand surgery, I would have asked him for bookshelves for Christmas.
PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:21 pm


We had a book exchange for Christmas last week in my school's book club (The Page Turners, we are called). I gave The Mummy by Anne Rice and I got Outrageous Fortune by Tim Scott. I haven't read it yet, but it looks good.

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OliviaFalconer
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:52 am


I got a $50 gift card for Borders! Whee!

And a copy of Library Mascot Cage Match--a collection of online comic strips at Unshevled.com
PostPosted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 3:16 pm


I didn't ask for any books for Christmas, but I still got a Barns and Noble gift card and manga (that doesn't really count, though xD)! So yesterday I went to pick up a copy of "Lolita" and "Battle Royale" with my card. =D

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:28 pm


I, too, was given Barnes and Noble gift cards. I bought most of Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet, The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo, and I hope to get her Tale of Despereaux back as a late gift. I gave away my first copy for some silly reason I can't imagine.
But I also bought a journal and some very bright, earth-friendly stationary. Eh, paper, books, both are related, right?
PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:25 pm


To update the list:

Just After Sunset by Stephen King
Cat Talk: What Your Cat is Trying to Tell You
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
An Atlas of Middle-Earth
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
Nancy Drew: The Thirteenth Pearl

Some of those are purchases from a gift card.

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OliviaFalconer
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:30 pm


I just used some of my gift card money to get the next in the Unshelved series: Book Club.
PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:17 pm


I did indeed get The Tale of Despereaux. ^_^ Definitely is my favorite gift of everything.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:40 am


For Christmas this year I received:
Three books by Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Stories, A Tale of Two Cities, and David Copperfield). I've been on a bit of a Victorian kick, so I was pretty pleased.

Selected Works(The Devil Rides Out, The Haunting of Toby Jugg, Gateway to Hell, and To The Devil- A Daughter) by Dennis Wheatley. All in one hardcover package. heart

And before I return to school from holiday Mom and I go out for a little book shopping. She loves to send me to school with books. 3nodding
PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:40 am


I used some more of my Borders gift card money to get a copy of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.

OliviaFalconer
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:48 pm


I'm possibly a bit late getting here ( sweatdrop ), but I thought I would share my new arrivals anyway:

Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Eulalia! by Brian Jacques
The Reality Bug by D. J. MacHale
Neverwhere
Stardust
Smoke and Mirrors
and American Gods by Neil Gaiman

I was a very happy hamster on Christmas Day heart
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