Bookish Holiday Gifts

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We do this once a year so you guys should know that this post was coming! 
What books or book related Items did you receive this Holiday?

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[silvereriena]

I received How To Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You. I may not own any cats, but I enjoyed it anyway.

[alexvdl]

Funny stuff.

[coritiacus]

I got

The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner (read it already, it's amazing).
The Compleat Ankh-Morpork (I love maps and Discworld).
Roman Britain by Richard Hobbs (I've been on a Roman kick since visiting Hadrian's Wall this summer)
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier.

I also got some money so I will be purchasing loads more books no doubt. I'm in two minds whether to re-read The Hobbit since seeing the film over the weekend.

[mongoose_bite]

I got Bushido: The Soul of Japan and Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers, the latter of which I explicitly asked for so yay!

[box_of_rocks]

The Kite Runner and Oryx and Crake. I love the former and am excited to read the latter, as I love Atwood.

[youjik33]

Gentlemen of the Road and The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon. I know he has a new novel out but I didn't ask for it because I'm weird and like paperbacks more than hardcovers ^_^*

I also got a B&N giftcard that I may end up spending on the manga Thermae Romae, which I just discovered is released in glorious hardcover. (It's probably the best manga about time traveling ancient Roman bath-builders ever.)

[youjik33]

LOL I just realized that I contradicted myself with that post. But huge hardcover graphic novels and manga I DO like. I just don't like hardcover novels!