Great (heh.) I'm going to be carrying a few plane/present books, I think. Got a 2 hour layover in Dallas...
In my family, it is perfectly legit to read the books before gifting them. There's also a tradition, when Xmas is in LC, in which you read everyone else's gifts first, before you leave. Then you read yours, but don't have to send them back for the other's to read, because they read them before they wrapped them! We're slightly insane.
This is completely logical. As is giving one's husband books he will enjoy but so will you. It's NOT a Homer Simpson gift if he likes it too. Nuh Uh.
Has anyone read A Girl's Guide to Vampires? I was just at the bookstore and it caught my attention. I have only read the first chapter so far.
I read it. Not as funny as it ought to be, IMHO. It doesn't help that she's basing it on a really freaky vampire canon. (Not just not the Jossverse, but not the Stokerverse either. A weird romance-novel canon with Carpathians.)
I am finding it funny, but I don't think it is in the same places that the author intended to be funny.
I just finished The Dogs of Babel, which I started out very lukewarm about, and ended up not loving, but being very moved by, which surprised me, as I'm not generally a mystery fan or a books-about-people-and-their-pets fan.
Skimming by - on the TB books - I said rabbit, rabbit on the first of the month for *years* and never remembered why or where I got it from!
3 copies of Weaver ordered and winging their way from Amazon....
(offers Rhiannon hot and cold running groupies and things)
books I read this year that I just really enjoyed - in no particular order
Weaver and the Factory Maid
Midnight for Charlie Bone
King Rat
A War for the Oaks
Bitten
Pattern Recognition
The Playboy
Razzle
The Salaryman's Wife
Brown Girl in the Ring
books that I did not like
A walk to remember
Lost in a good Book
The Amber Room
Magic Time