So ... what's on your Christmas list? :)

Busi_Girl08

OK. Over the last few days my wishlist has kind of grown a bit.

I'm really curious about Room and Skippy Dies, because of all the talk of them here, and I really want to see what It is like. Fingers crossed for a voucher!

dr gonzo

UpCork wrote: »

I know I'm getting Ryan Tubridy's book on JFK

Ryan Tubridy is an author?

Dont get me wrong, he seems like an intelligent guy but a book on JFK...thats unexpected.

Sergeant

dr gonzo wrote: »

Ryan Tubridy is an author?

Dont get me wrong, he seems like an intelligent guy but a book on JFK...thats unexpected.

I think I heard him mention on his radio show that is was largely based around the JFK visit to Ireland. Potentially an interesting angle about a man who has been the subject of a glut of biographies.

hatful

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A hidden inheritance- Edmund de Waal

Atlas of remote islands: Fifty Islands I have not visited and never will- Judith Schalansky (Both published this year)

Jimmy Iovine

A little late but I'll list what I got anyway. Bit of a mixture really. My dad bought me Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of short stories "The Gambler and Other Stories". Can't wait to read it and I think he has Crime and Punishment somewhere around the house so I'll be rooting that out soon after hopefully. He also bought me a book on sporting heroes of the last 5 decades. Not much of a big read but it'll be very interesting none the less.

I bought two books for myself. One is a biography of Richard Nixon by Conrad Black. No idea why I got it really but I find him a very interesting man. I also got a book on the 2008 US Presidential elections. It's an insider account of some of the goings on. Should be good enough I reckon.

I bought my dad a book on Abraham Lincoln. It focuses more on his life as a writer and then incorporates his presidency around that then I think. I'll be borrowing it off him as soon as I get through these other books.

In the meantime I've a bit of dinner to be eating

Denerick

I bought myself a new biography of Pearse by a Dutch fellow, Joost Augusteyn (I'm really not arsed spelling it correctly)

KnifeWRENCH

I didn't have a list but my Mam got me Cloud Atlas because she knew I wanted to read it. She also got me Journey to the Centre of the Earth because she wanted to give me a "classic" too (she was going to get Moby Dick but couldn't find it - evidence of the perils of last-minute shopping! :pac:)

I got a good bit of money this month from Christmas and my birthday, so I'm going to buy Midnight's Children - I really enjoyed The Satanic Verses so I want to read more of Rushdie. Also, if I enjoy The Poisonwood Bible, which I'm reading at the moment, I may get The Lacuna aswell.

bp1989

I got the Millennium trilogy. Currently on the first, I'm surprised at just how enthralled I am by it. I was never into crime novels, but so far this is an exception!

Eliot Rosewater

My devilish scheme of sending my wishlist to my parents Santa Clause worked a treat! I got lots of books:

Why Look at Animals? - John Berger
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Green Fool - Patrick Kavanagh
A Mathematician's Apology - GH Hardy
A Shropshire Lad - AE Housmann
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? - Raymond Carver

My girlfriend got me:
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
It Must Be Beautiful - a collection of essays about notable and beautiful maths equations

She also got me a packet of "Edmund Burke's Jacobean Coffee" and she made me oven-gloves with Marx stitched onto the left side and John Locke onto the right side (get it? get it?!)

Denerick

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

She also got me a packet of "Edmund Burke's Jacobean Coffee"

Oh dear.

Eliot Rosewater

I don't know if she's aware of the ideological contradiction, but even if she was I doubt she'd let that get in the way of tying a respected author to a pun! :pac:

ilovenerds

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

I don't know if she's aware of the ideological contradiction, but even if she was I doubt she'd let that get in the way of tying a respected author to a pun! :pac:

Jeez, I read Reflections on the Revolution in France, didn't I? If you had inspected the packet more closely you would have seen the sub-heading: "Roast 'em all", which clearly indicates Burke's disdain for the Jacobite movement(while still tying in with the general coffee motif). :P

KnifeWRENCH

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

It Must Be Beautiful - a collection of essays about notable and beautiful maths equations

I must get that book at some point. I remember Alexei Pokrovskii (R.I.P.) recommending it to my class in 1st year.

Eliot Rosewater

ilovenerds wrote: »

Jeez, I read Reflections on the Revolution in France, didn't I? If you had inspected the packet more closely you would have seen the sub-heading: "Roast 'em all", which clearly indicates Burke's disdain for the Jacobite movement(while still tying in with the general coffee motif). :P

The sub-heading was particularly good, but I thought it meant "roast all the conservatives", but now that I have seen the true meaning it's even better!

And I see too the greater aim of all the puns. Your "feast for the census" is emphasising the connection between food stuffs (the senses) and the people (the census): as we roast the coffee beans we are simultaneously roasting the Jacobins!

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

I must get that book at some point. I remember Alexei Pokrovskii (R.I.P.) recommending it to my class in 1st year.

I finished reading it last night. Some of the essays were fantastic (the physics ones less enjoyable as I never studied physics in my leaving cert!) I could lend it to you if you like!

KnifeWRENCH

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

I finished reading it last night. Some of the essays were fantastic (the physics ones less enjoyable as I never studied physics in my leaving cert!) I could lend it to you if you like!

Very kind of you to offer, but I have a mountain of books I need to get through as it is. Also I take ages to read a book so there's a chance you'd never get it back off me!

But thanks anyway.