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What books did you get a book for the holidays?
I got

The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds

Thanks Jennifer!

That seems like a great book! I didn't get a single one.

I got zero books.

I did get a Samsung tablet, so my first two downloads were the applications for the Nook and the Kindle. Both of them immediately downloaded the books I had already purchased, so now I won't have to borrow Mrs. Phil's iPad to read them.

The only book I got was The Chronicle of Western Costume, but I did also get a Kindle Fire! Still figuring out all the features, but loving it so far.

I got The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses. Since I already have them, I regifted them to my daughter-in-law.

I asked for and got Blackout.

Good one, J!

My husband gave me Steve Jobs and The Girl Who Played With Fire.
Happy Happy!

Amazon gift card. Bitches.

I received an eclectic mix of three this year: Dr. Seuss's "The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories", Stephen King's "11/22/63" and "365 Dish a Day and One for Leap Year" edited by Kay Halsey.
Cheri, your book sounds great!
Poor Felix, maybe Valentine's Day?

ALEXANDER MC QUEEN!!

High Style( masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Different Like Coco (a children's book about Channel)

I'm inspired!

i got the new tebow book. my wife said it even has pictures to fuel my man-crush

BunWat wrote: "janine wrote: "I asked for and got Blackout."

Yay!! Get All Clear at once, because you need to go straight from Blackout to All Clear, it's really just one book split..."

I'd want to buy it, so I'll see if I can get it somewhere.

Thanks for the warning, book is on its way :)

Didn't get any books as gifts, but I did get some money from my step-mom, which is going to buy a copy of Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It and a few others I haven't decided on yet.

Does a netbook count? ;)

I got a Kindle with the new Steven King novel added to it.
Also a couple of Sara Paretsky books-have not read her in ages.

I'm glad Janine has All Clear to follow Blackout. Definitely better to read both at once.

Yeah, and I went ahead and read Blackout when it came out and then had months of agonized waiting. Plus there is NO catching you up to speed in All Clear, it just continues on as if you had read Blackout yesterday, so I had to spend a little time saying "Wha? Where were we again?"

Her stories intrigued me and held my interest (it's time travel!)-- but I swear her writing style drove me crazy sometimes.

We'll be here.

I think a lot of people find her method of building the situation through small and somewhat repetitive scenes to be unbearable. I think the important thing to know is that she adores the rhythms of classic screwball comedy. That's what she's trying to do. People run around like headless chickens for a while before things begin to fall into place. I think we're used to people being reachable, too, so the idea of these kinds of miscommunications and misfirings rings a little more falsely to us than they might have at another time.
For me the craziness of the Oxford future is worth it for the excellent scenes in the past - in all of the Oxford time travel books.

For me the craziness of the Oxford future is worth it for the excellent scenes in the past - in all of the Oxford time travel books.

Agreed. And would someone please tell me what a gobstopper is? Oh okay Wiki says it's a jawbreaker. Never mind.

The Everlasting Gobstopper is the best gobstopper. I'm still looking for a golden ticket so I can tour the factory and get one. One is all you need, after all.

I got;

1Q84

A Trick of the Light

The First America's Team: The 1962 Green Bay Packers

No books. That's a good thing.