My mum always gives us book shop gift cards. Alexzander picked a massive hard cover collection of all the Thomas the Tank Engine stories today, it's beautiful & such a great choice. I haven't picked mine just yet but I have $70 to spend up big in the sales
Oooh Rufalina the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is great. I have read all three in the Millenium series and loved them.
The books elf this year bought me Dan Brown's Angels and Deamons and a gardening book called Harvest which shows you all about planting your own edible garden. Can't wait to get into both of these when I finish my current novel.
The kids also got a number of books which is always handy as they are already little bookworms. But my favourite for them was a boxed edition of The Complete Peter Rabit Library which is 23 books all for when they are a bit older though!
The Christmas book elf brought me... an Amazon Kindle!! Google it, seriously, I'd never heard of it before and I. Am. In. LOVE. So far I've downloaded The Great Gatsby, Madame Bovary, The Age of Innocence (catching up on my classics while I decide what new stuff to buy) and have downloaded a bunch of free samples of random books that sounded good so I can check them out and decide when I get paid
Best Christmas gift ever!!
The kids got some Grug and Little Miss books, and some Little Golden Books, too
OOOOH now I'm having a lil envy fit, Glamourcide! Not as much amazon content apparently as when you live in the US (where you can broadband your stuff straight down into the kindle without a PC intermediary) but still very very cool. Please post again in a few days when you've been able to fiddle and read with it and tell us all about it!!!
Oh Marydean, it's unreal... soooo simple and user-friendly, I had it figured out in seconds. I'd never heard of them (I mean I knew digital/e-books existed but wasn't sure how they worked), so I opened the box and was like, 'Uhh... DH... what in the name of Christmas is THIS?' and he explained it to me... I just about killed myself waiting for it to charge up, I wanted to use it straight away! There are only three or four buttons, so navigation is really simple... the screen is sooo easy to read, in bright or dim light (it's not backlit but the ink rendering and matte screen makes it a very clear picture), books download in seconds and it's so easy to browse the store and purchase them (literally it takes just seconds), and you can download free samples (usually a chapter or two) of books that you're interested in to see if it's worth buying - and so cheap!! The Age of Innocence cost me US$2.99, Madame Bovary was free and most of the others I'm looking at (broke after Boxing Day sales lol) are around $11 (US). It's super portable and I've been using it non-stop since Christmas Day and the battery is still half-full I don't know how much they cost (lol I insisted DH not reveal that to me because I'm betting it's expensive and I don't deserve such a wonderful gift after the mood swings I've subjected him to lately) but they are definitely a great investment for any avid reader, I reckon... over 300,000 books from all kinds of catgories to choose from, I'm stoked
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all for when they are a bit older though!
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