Holiday Book Gifts
Being lucky enough to have a significant other who likes to give books as gifts, I prepare my list each year.Here's what I have asked for this year.
LUCY by Ellen Feldman. About the love affair between FDR and Lucy Mercer, secretary to his wife, Eleanor.
Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore by Suzanne Shea. While the author was recovering from breast cancer, and unable to start-up her writing, she got a PT job in a local bookstore. This is the account. This is autobiographical.She finds a great deal of satisfaction in directing customers to books and in some cases, opening new reading avenues.
On Call by Emily R.Transue, MD. The usual (but always interesting to me) story of young female doctor's first year of residency.(Shades of childhood and reading Sue Barton).
Let Me Go by Helga Schneider. A young girl is deserted by her mother in 1941. The mother leaves to be a guard in Auschwitz-Birkenau. When the girl is middleaged she and mother meet-disastrously. Then when mother is dying/in her nineties, a friend suggests they meet. And...? I'm intrigued.
And, George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes. I think Eliot's feminism and unconventional life in a conventional age are fascinating and book was reviewed as focussing on those aspects of her life.
Basic Judaism by Milton Steinberg. Recommended by a friend when I asked for books to educate myself.
On list that goes out to family there is general request for any book on great photographers and their work.
And, last, is my inevitable book gift to me from me. I haven't decided.
By the way, the genesis of this list is prosaic to say the least. A catalog, Bas Bleu, marketing only books , arrived, and these are the ones I marked off. Only Steinberg's came from my "to buy" file on computer. There are so many books to read.
Oh, one more. Another friend asked for gift idea and I said Amazon.com and see if there was used copy of Forsyth Saga. Has been a long time since I read that.
It would be interesting to know what books people have read this year- anything that really was a HIT for you.
As I frequently do after blogging, I am thinking, can anyone be interested in what books I want for holidays?????? Hm? Well, I guess so in so far as it suggests some books you might want to peek into.
Nite, Claire
LUCY by Ellen Feldman. About the love affair between FDR and Lucy Mercer, secretary to his wife, Eleanor.
Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore by Suzanne Shea. While the author was recovering from breast cancer, and unable to start-up her writing, she got a PT job in a local bookstore. This is the account. This is autobiographical.She finds a great deal of satisfaction in directing customers to books and in some cases, opening new reading avenues.
On Call by Emily R.Transue, MD. The usual (but always interesting to me) story of young female doctor's first year of residency.(Shades of childhood and reading Sue Barton).
Let Me Go by Helga Schneider. A young girl is deserted by her mother in 1941. The mother leaves to be a guard in Auschwitz-Birkenau. When the girl is middleaged she and mother meet-disastrously. Then when mother is dying/in her nineties, a friend suggests they meet. And...? I'm intrigued.
And, George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes. I think Eliot's feminism and unconventional life in a conventional age are fascinating and book was reviewed as focussing on those aspects of her life.
Basic Judaism by Milton Steinberg. Recommended by a friend when I asked for books to educate myself.
On list that goes out to family there is general request for any book on great photographers and their work.
And, last, is my inevitable book gift to me from me. I haven't decided.
By the way, the genesis of this list is prosaic to say the least. A catalog, Bas Bleu, marketing only books , arrived, and these are the ones I marked off. Only Steinberg's came from my "to buy" file on computer. There are so many books to read.
Oh, one more. Another friend asked for gift idea and I said Amazon.com and see if there was used copy of Forsyth Saga. Has been a long time since I read that.
It would be interesting to know what books people have read this year- anything that really was a HIT for you.
As I frequently do after blogging, I am thinking, can anyone be interested in what books I want for holidays?????? Hm? Well, I guess so in so far as it suggests some books you might want to peek into.
Nite, Claire
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12/03/2005 10:13:00 PM
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