Isa
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Post by Isa on Dec 27, 2008 8:10:16 GMT -5
Now that we've all opened up our presents, did you get any books for Christmas? I got "Twilight" (finally!), "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" and "The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel", plus 2 bookstore giftcards  |
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Post by whitegold on Dec 27, 2008 12:21:31 GMT -5
I got a giftcard.  |
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Dec 27, 2008 12:47:23 GMT -5
I got an Amazon gift card and a Barnes and Noble one. My family knows me well enough not to pick books out for me.
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annak
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Post by annak on Dec 27, 2008 13:07:38 GMT -5
I got a Barnes and Noble gift car, Bill O'reilly's book, and one of the guys at work got me the History of Helen of Troy
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jella
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Post by jella on Dec 27, 2008 13:34:18 GMT -5
I got only one book, Jane Eyre.
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Post by Lucky on Dec 27, 2008 13:56:09 GMT -5
I got Twilight, The Wayward Bus by Steinbeck, East of Eden by Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, The Idiot by Dostoevsky and The Tales of Beedle the Bard |
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Post by neveralone on Dec 27, 2008 15:38:10 GMT -5
I got The Real America by Glenn Beck, and God's Plan For You. I have heard of neither...I am returning a present i already had and hoping the store gives back cash so I can get some books at the used bookstore. This week everything is on sale!
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Dec 27, 2008 15:53:48 GMT -5
Only one book: Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier.
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Dec 27, 2008 16:12:22 GMT -5
I got: - The Annotated Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen's letters
- Garden of Eden - Hemingway
- Islands in the Stream - Hemingway
- Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
- Certain Girls - Jennifer Weiner
- The first of the Sookie Stackhouse books
- Spot of Wonder - Melissa Bank
- The Intellectual Devotional
And Ben got a bunch, too. We're thinking of getting yet another bookshelf for our "library." |
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neh
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"I live in two worlds; one is a world of books"
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Post by neh on Dec 27, 2008 18:39:56 GMT -5
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard
- Son of a Witch
- A Lion Among Men
- Greywalker
- The Colour of Magic
- The Eyre Affair
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sylviaplath
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Post by sylviaplath on Dec 27, 2008 19:38:05 GMT -5
- Carrie
- Tales of Beetle the Bard
- Special Topics In Calamity Physics
- The Jungle
- A Short History Of The World
- Downtown Owl
- The Dirt
- Partly Cloudy Patriot
- Bonk
- Salem's Lot
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Post by bookaddict on Dec 27, 2008 22:22:33 GMT -5
Tales of the Beetle Bard
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sunshine83
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Post by sunshine83 on Dec 27, 2008 23:03:15 GMT -5
Wilderness - The lost writings of Jim Morrison Volume 1
The American Night - The writings of Jim Morrison Volume 2
The Rum Diary - Hunter S Thompson
and a gift card to chapters! yay!
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Post by Hanna on Dec 28, 2008 4:59:26 GMT -5
I got:
Slash by Slash
A Picture of Dorian Grey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On Cesil Beach by Ian McEvan
Gilead
A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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Post by belle on Dec 28, 2008 5:54:03 GMT -5
I got "The rain before it falls" by Jonathan Coe and
"The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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