A Bookly Christmas

It really was. We gave and received many good books as usual. And also have some good ones from the library, so the house is full of books! I am seriously thinking of a heavy literature focus for January.
I am not going to try to link to Amazon for all of the titles, or I'd be here all night!
Before I get to read any of these books, I need to finish Breathe of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, as it's a library copy, first.

Papa and I always make a couple of bookstore runs together in December. We do some serious library stocking this time of year. Here's what we gave us.
I convinced Papa to buy me some David Sedaris, because I have been told he is a good example of an essay writer. I have naked and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. Lots of Kipling. Just So Stories, Captains Courageous, The Light that Failed, and Kim.
I gave Papa the New Neil Gaiman novel Anansi Boys, and The Cat's Pajamas by Bradbury. We also found A Tale of Two Cities. Thank goodness for Half-Price Books!


We bought for the kids, for all of us, really, the following fiction: The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming by Chitra Banerjee Vivakaruni. It looks good. So does The King in the WIndow by Adam Gopnik. High on the humour is Shel's last book, Runny Babbit. These will end up being saved for readalouds, or so the kids have declared. Between the Boy and the Girl, we also add to the stacks the first two volumes of the second Warriors Series by Erin Hunter, Drifthouse by Dale Peck, Wizardology, and several more nice hardbacks of the Redwall series, including the newest one, High Rhulain.

We also have a dear friend who loves to give the kids books. Lucky for us! Girl received Caddie Woodlawn and a nice edition of Little Women. She gave the Boy the latest Harry Potter book- egads, there are six of these now? I have to admit, I haven't read any of them. He finished that one in one 24 hr period, while he was down with a Christmas cold. She also gave them A Christmas Carol and other stories by Dickens.

In addition to all these new books, I have my usual pile of library books, most of them quilting titles: Fiber Arts Design Book Six, Quilted Planet, and Color and Compostition for the Creative Quilter. Many folks at various quilting blogs I have been reading lately have been using these exercises. I may need to get a copy of this book. I also have Transforming the Difficult Child, but I haven't cracked it yet. Gotta finish the Gabaldon book first!

Yep, it would really be nice to just sit around and do nothing but read for the whole month of January, wouldn't it? Lord knows we have tons of stuff to read!
Papa just stuck a movie into the DVD player Santa brought us, so I will talk to you soon.
LB