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Posted: **Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:51 pm**

Are you giving books this holiday season?

Posted: **Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:12 pm**

Yes. My parents are getting on in years, but they still read a fair bit. Books are always a good thing to get for both of them. My mother reads mysteries and my father reads histories.

A few years ago, I gave my mother a nice hardcover of Roald Dahl's Ghost Stories for Christmas. I have a massive collection of ghost stories in my own library and I've always thought Dahls' collection to be one of the better ones. Well, my mother must have considered Dahl to be strictly a writer of children's books and she obviously didn't give the book a fair shake. A few years later it came back. Regifted, not to me, but to my son.

Posted: **Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:11 pm**

Yeah, just to two people. To my little brother I'm giving The Invention of Hugo Cabret. To my little sister, Aesop's Fables and possibly some other book. I've been trying to get her to read more...

Posted: **Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:22 pm**

Yes, books-on-tape for my father-in-law who is 82 and can't read very easily and to my daughter who loves to read! I also like to receive books as gifts!

Posted: **Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:41 am**

mmm hhm,
am giving books to my tween niece, and a gift card to amazon to my girlfriends!

Posted: **Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:35 am**

I always give books to my immediate family. Their tastes range from mystery to romance.

Posted: **Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:37 pm**

Of course, because I am a second-hand bookdealer. EVERYONE gets books in my family.

If they are not readers - they get 'picture' books. Many of which are my own personal favourites anyway.

ALL of you people on here have put a lot of sunshine into my life over the last year - and although this is NOT the place to be wishing everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS -

I will wish you all a very Happy Yuletide!!!

from good old England.

Love to you all - and a big, big THANKYOU!!!

Posted: **Thu Dec 25, 2008 6:44 pm**

I always give books for birthdays and holidays. you would be surprised how many people DON'T give books, so I always do!

Posted: **Fri Dec 26, 2008 1:45 pm**

Yes, fortunately my two neices have followed in my footsteps and LOVE to read. They were very happy with their Barnes & Noble gift cards for Christmas.

And of course I got myself a few

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Posted: **Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:14 pm**

I know this is a little late. Sorry.
This year I gave my husband a copy of Robinson Crusoe. He's never read it, but he often says he wishes he could live alone (well with me) on some island away from civilization, so I figure that book would be perfect for him. I also gave my father in law a copy of Creations of Fire, which is a history of chemistry. (He and my husband are both chemists.) I also bought Eats Shoots and Leaves for my dad, but somehow that got lost in my tiny apartment.