Books for Christmas!

I hope everyone has been enjoying the holiday season and that those who celebrate it enjoyed a Merry Christmas! Here is my annual round-up of the books that my book-loving family exchanged for Christmas yesterday - quite a haul!

First, I received, from my son, my mom, and my husband:

• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (a classic I've been meaning to read for years)
• Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson (a favorite author)
• Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver (another favorite!)
• The Official Scrabble Dictionary (my mom and I love to play Scrabble together)
• And, not a book, but a set of classic Hitchcock movies from my husband because I just watched my first Hitchcock (Rear Window) last year!

We gave our son:

• The Rose and the Thorn by Michael Sullivan (book 2 in The Riyria Chronicles - he just finished book 1 and loved it...almost bought book 2 three days ago for himself!)
• Defender by Robert J. Crane (book 1 of The Sanctuary series)
• Pithy Seedy Pulpy Juicy by Hilary B. Price (a book of cartoons - she draws Rhymes with Orange in the newspaper, with is very Far Side-like)

And, from my son and I, my husband got a big stack of his favorite thrillers:

• Edge by Jeffrey Deaver, a stand-alone novel (not part of the Lincoln Rhyme series)
• Live to Air by Jeffrey L. Diamond
• The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
• Past Tense by Lee Child
• Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly

That should keep him busy for awhile!!

And I gave my mom two of my all-time favorite novels ever: Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver.

So, it was a happy and bookish Christmas here! Hope it was for your family, too!