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This will be the page for 2013's project, where I'll list my 50 Reading Presently books - books that were given to me as presents, along with their givers. I will never use the word 'gifted' as a verb, or 'gifting' at all. *Shudder*
1. Moranthology by Caitlin Moran - from my brother Colin
2. The Young Ardizzone by Edward Ardizonne - from Verity
3. What There Is To Say We Have Said : Eudora Welty & William Maxwell - from blog-reader Heather
4. The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield - from Thomas
5. House of Silence by Linda Gillard - from Linda
6. A Spy in the Bookshop ed. John Saumarez Smith - from Lucy
7. Return to the Hundred Acre Wood by David Benedictus - from Verity
8. Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart - from Lucy
9. How The Heather Looks by Joan Bodger - from Clare, maybe??
10. Room at the Top by John Braine - from John H.
11. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn - from Ruth
12. The Easter Party by Vita Sackville-West - from Hayley
13. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright - from Nichola
14. Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi - from Our Vicar and Our Vicar's Wife
15. Bassett by Stella Gibbons - from Barbara
16. The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel - from Colin
Simon, if it's OK I'm planning to link to this whenever I review a book received as a gift (I agree with you about "gifted" in that sense!).
ReplyDeleteBut of course you may, Lisa May!
DeleteI think this is such a lovely project Simon - I could probably do this along with you if I was inclined to limit myself as so many people have kindly given me books recently (and not so recently!) Good luck with the project!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm excited about it - and wondering why I haven't read all these wonderful presents already!
DeleteI really like the idea behind this project. I seem to have the bad habit that I often leave books I received as gifts lying around the longest, without picking them up to read. You might have inspired me to give them a little more attention.
ReplyDeleteI know! I have left some for years and years - I shall purge my guilt this year!
DeleteYou are brave to do this! Best of luck -- and a happy new year to you!
ReplyDeleteIt should be fun - and only 50, so not too brave! :)
DeleteWell, you are off to a good start with this project: one down and a great review!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ruthiella! It was a fab book to start with.
DeleteNow this is really interesting to me as I rarely give others books and they rarely give one to me. Book choices are so personal and I know that they differ from many of my friends. So, do you give books knowing the subjects they would choose for themselves or, do you try to introduce them to a different genre? I love a good weep - and end up feeling uplifted, grateful that I am not in the position of a particular character! - whereas others find such books depressing.
ReplyDeleteDelyn