What are you passing on to friends/family this year? (Stolen thread idea from Movies board) Love - Toni Morrison The Brothers K - David James Duncan The River Why - David James Duncan Mason and Dixon - Thomas Pynchon A Walk in the Darkness - Jon Land Murder at 221 B Baker St - Various Farming of the Bones - Edwidge Danticat Sula - Toni Morrison The Metaphysical Club - Louis Menard Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
Older Son gets: The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazney Younger Son: Kim, by Rudyard Kipling Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke (author of The Thief Lord) Charlie Bone and the Time Twister, by Jenny Nimmo I got: Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis and (BS's own) Irvine's A Scattering of Jades (which I've started and has already kept me up late once).
I really enjoyed that book. I received a $50 gift certificate to Amazon and a $50 gift certificate to Borders. Ha!!
I didn't give any books this year, the closest is that I gave my dad a magazine subscription to The Orthodox Word. Interesting combo is that my brother gave my dad a subscription to Bama (a magazine about University of Alabama athletics.)
I was given it on CD (apparently my commuter stress has been noticed). I've got finish my Franklin and Winston CDs first.