Books as gifts
Jan. 4th, 2006 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eimarraI like giving books as gifts. I've always liked getting them, so it stands to reason others do, too. ;)
My husband received a copy of Mary Doria Russell's A Thread of Grace. We both really enjoyed Sparrow and Children of God, so it seemed a logical choice. Though it *was* presented as a gift from our son.
I picked up books for my parents-in-law (gifts from their grandson, of course). My father-in-law got a couple Terry Pratchetts: Feat of Clay (which I have yet to read) and Going Postal. He hasn't started either yet, but I'm sure he'll enjoy them when he does. My mother-in-law received Midnight Rain and Last Girl Dancing by Holly Lisle. She's read them both in the past week; she liked Last Girl much better than Midnight Rain, which she felt had more gratuitous sex and gore. I definitely got the feeling that she'd like to read more by Holly Lisle.
My brother-in-law got Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Silly me. He's a reader, and he lived and worked in Silicon Valley. Of course he read it when it first came out. Maybe I should've gotten him Cryptonomicon after all, even though it's more up my husband's alley in some respects.
Our niece got the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday books by Garth Nix. She started reading immediately (ignoring other presents being passed out) -- a very successful gift! Not bad since the only thing I knew about her reading habits was that she'd enjoyed the Traveling Pants books. I think she spent more time playing Neverwinter Nights on my husband's computer than she did reading, but that's not an option now. So we'll see how it works out. I figure there may well be another four books in the series, and he's written other things -- this could take care of gift-giving for her for a while.
And, of course, everyone got a copy of Clash of Steel Book Two: Assassin. No one's said anything about my story yet, but everyone was properly effusive about my being published. Some year, it'll be a book instead of a chapbook that I can do this with. But first I need to write. . . .
My husband received a copy of Mary Doria Russell's A Thread of Grace. We both really enjoyed Sparrow and Children of God, so it seemed a logical choice. Though it *was* presented as a gift from our son.
I picked up books for my parents-in-law (gifts from their grandson, of course). My father-in-law got a couple Terry Pratchetts: Feat of Clay (which I have yet to read) and Going Postal. He hasn't started either yet, but I'm sure he'll enjoy them when he does. My mother-in-law received Midnight Rain and Last Girl Dancing by Holly Lisle. She's read them both in the past week; she liked Last Girl much better than Midnight Rain, which she felt had more gratuitous sex and gore. I definitely got the feeling that she'd like to read more by Holly Lisle.
My brother-in-law got Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Silly me. He's a reader, and he lived and worked in Silicon Valley. Of course he read it when it first came out. Maybe I should've gotten him Cryptonomicon after all, even though it's more up my husband's alley in some respects.
Our niece got the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday books by Garth Nix. She started reading immediately (ignoring other presents being passed out) -- a very successful gift! Not bad since the only thing I knew about her reading habits was that she'd enjoyed the Traveling Pants books. I think she spent more time playing Neverwinter Nights on my husband's computer than she did reading, but that's not an option now. So we'll see how it works out. I figure there may well be another four books in the series, and he's written other things -- this could take care of gift-giving for her for a while.
And, of course, everyone got a copy of Clash of Steel Book Two: Assassin. No one's said anything about my story yet, but everyone was properly effusive about my being published. Some year, it'll be a book instead of a chapbook that I can do this with. But first I need to write. . . .
