While She Knits - Holiday Gift Edition

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

FALALALALA LALALALA.

Who else besides me is getting ready to buy the gift that keeps on giving?  Books for the holidays!

What books are you giving as gifts?  And what books for yourself are you sneaking onto to that Amazon order because, well, you have that free shipping anyway, right? 

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[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

CODE NAME VERITY

CODE NAME VERITY FOR ALL THE GIFTS

(no spoilers!)

[(Anonymous)]

I sent to the book depository for two copies of UK edition The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch because they retitled it Midnight Riot in the US and gave it and ugly cover. I highly recommend it, even if you have to get the US edition.

~mwt

[readingisgoodforyou.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

I'm a librarian, so my nieces, nephews and pretty much all of my family members know they are going to get books for every Christmas and birthday and any other gift-giving holiday that crops up during the year. Luckily, most of my family enjoys reading, so they put up with me.

I bought one of my younger nieces I Want My Hat Back, but I'm not quite sure what to get my five year old niece. Any suggestions? How about for an almost two year old boy? Sadly, I'm not really up-to-date on books for younger kids.

I think I'm going to get my nine year old niece The False Prince, but I wish she was a little older, so I could give her The Scorpio Races or Saving Francesca or Jellicoe Road (she loves horses and she adored Melina Marchetta's Gorgon in the Gully). She's going to be so much fun to shop for when she hits the right age for YA fiction.

I'm a bit sad, because I peeked on my Amazon wishlist and noticed that no books had been purchased. My mom told me that she was tired of buying books and records for me, because that's all I ever ask for, and she lived up to her word. I may have to buy a book or two for myself, so I'll have something with which to entertain myself on Christmas day. Unfortunately, most of the books that I want that I haven't yet read aren't being released until next year, like Scarlet, Prodigy, and Unravel Me. Still, I wouldn't say no to a copy of Grave Mercy or Love and Other Perishable Items or the US paperback edition of The Piper's Son, even though I already have the other two editions of that book. Yes, I am a big dork.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Well, I was ging to give a certain fellow Sounisian to whom I happen to be closely related A Strangr to Command by Sherwood Smith, which she has been wanting to read for the last two years, but said individual found a way to get it through the library system. *pouts* It's OK, though, we both read it and enjoyed it, and I have another idea of what to give the aforementioned Sounisian, but I can't write it here, because she'll probably be reading this. :)

Merry Christmas!

[deirdrej.livejournal.com]

Help! I tried to reply with a lot of good suggestions, but my comment was marked as spam! Moderators? can you help?

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Frances Hardinge, guys. The perfect present for anyone.... I'd say 12+. Fly by Night, Fly Trap/Twilight Robbery, The Lost Conspiracy/Gullstruck Island, and my personal favorite, A Face Like Glass.

LOVE.

Also Code Name Verity. Plus a box of tissues. And I'd say Chime, by Franny Billingsley, which I've been reading over and over since it first came out, but the voice can be divisive. Or how about The President's Daughter series for a teenage girl? Especially for a teenage girl who likes politics. And idealism. Or for an adult who likes those things.

[deirdrej.livejournal.com]

Oh! I just thought of another awesome kid's book -- "The Elephant's Friend and Other Tales from Ancient India." Look at the lovely cover :-D

A caveat -- some of the tales are a tad scary -- well actually, gruesome (people who foolishly trust tigers get eaten, for example). But it's beautifully done, with a running commentary and beautiful, vivid illustrations.

Or -- another classic I forgot to mention -- get L. M. Boston's "The Children of Green Knowe."

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Ok, I need some ideas for a 5th grade boy who is a good reader and likes nonfiction, sports, and adventure. Problem is, I have no idea what he has read so it would have to be either an older book that's a bit more obscure or a brand new book.

[sgwordy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love "one for you, one for me" holiday shopping and it's always that way with books. My holiday glom/gift of choice is N. K. Jemisin's Dreamblood duology.

[brandy-painter.livejournal.com]

For my daughter (8 years old): Above World by Jen Reese; Zita the Spacegirl by Be Haatke; The Hobbit (in hardcover-this one is from my husband; He's read it to her this year so it's sort of their thing)

For my son (4 years old): Let's Go for a Drive by Mo Willems; Interrupting Chicken; The Three Ninja Pigs; The Pigeon Wants a Puppy

For my niece (10mo; for her to grow into): Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall and Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems

For my 4h grade students: Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George

For my 5th-6th grade students: The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen

For my high school students: either Variant by Robison Wells or The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

For my sister: all of R.J. Andersons Faery books

[(Anonymous)]

Received Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel for Chanukah. Am reading it like a chocolate bar - it delicious, decadent licks that turn into greedy gobbles.

Scotty