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

Glowing

Hmm well I've just seen a fabulous performance of Jane Eyre in the Gate theatre, so the book is definately on my list!

I think I'd also like to read

Sister by Rosamund Lupton,
Room by Emma Donoghue

Well, what's Santa going to bring you?

tHE vAGGABOND

I told my sister in law in California to get me something she thinks I should read - any topic or subject, be it self help or her favorite book as a child or whatever

Will be interesting to see what she comes back with

Asphyxia

I would like a couple of classics to keep me going

- Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice
- A couple of Jodie Picolt books
- Poetry books

So many :rolleyes:

Eliot Rosewater

I have an 83 book wishlist which hopefully will be dipped into by Santa*!

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/wishlist/291007/James

A bit of a mix there, but mostly fiction. I won't describe which books stand out for me, for fear my Boards viewing girlfriend will freak out because she hasn't got them!!


*It has been indirectly emailed to my mother to improve chances of same.

Plowman

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Denerick

I'm hoping to treat myself sometime in the next couple of weeks with a trip to hodges and fidges in Dublin. Will spend at least 100 euro!

Am tempted to buy the dictionary of Irish biography, though that will set me back big time.

common sense brigade

One of my favourite all time books is , ' The go between ' by L.P. Hartley. i'd love a first edition! 'The past is a foreign country they do things differently there'

Grievous

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

I have an 83 book wishlist which hopefully will be dipped into by Santa*!

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/wishlist/291007/James

A bit of a mix there, but mostly fiction. I won't describe which books stand out for me, for fear my Boards viewing girlfriend will freak out because she hasn't got them!!

Impressive list, Eliot!

I think I already own at least 50% of your fiction wish-list, so I approve.
Hope you enjoy.

P.s Atlas Shrugged....................are you insane? Don't waste your money.

squeakyduck

We do a Chris Krindle at home and I've asked my mum for:

Ellmann's biography of Joyce
Letters of James Joyce (full edition if she can get her hands of them)
Lucia Joyce: To dance in the wake. (about Joyce's daughter who was schizophrenic)

I wrote my thesis on Joyce and was interested in getting the books I wanted to read in my own time for myself (I loved Joyce's letters to Nora - some of them are sooo romantic, others...not so much :eek:) I hope my mum can find them for me or get my sister to work her amazon wonders!

the west wing

I love American politics and history so my wish-list is just a long list of American related books!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/1NU2TP8TBXYW9/ref=cm_wl_search_1

John

squeakyduck wrote: »

We do a Chris Krindle at home and I've asked my mum for:

Ellmann's biography of Joyce
Letters of James Joyce (full edition if she can get her hands of them)
Lucia Joyce: To dance in the wake. (about Joyce's daughter who was schizophrenic)

I wrote my thesis on Joyce and was interested in getting the books I wanted to read in my own time for myself (I loved Joyce's letters to Nora - some of them are sooo romantic, others...not so much :eek:) I hope my mum can find them for me or get my sister to work her amazon wonders!

Good selection, Ellmann's biography is great. I've got that Lucia Joyce biog in my to read pile (along with about another ten Joyce related books), haven't delved into it yet. I did get it cheap in Hodges Figgis (less than a fiver for the hardback), suggest your mam has a look around before buying it.

I've only one novel on my Santa list and that's C by Tom McCarthy. The other books are all about music and sound art.

E.T.

Bill Bryson - At Home: Short History of Private Life

Wait For Me: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister

Waiting for these to arrive this week - I was too impatient to wait for Christmas!

Glowing

E.T. wrote: »

Bill Bryson - At Home: Short History of Private Life

I've actually just started reading this! I would have not picked it up myself I'd say, and got it as a gift. Must say it's absolutely fascinating!! Am really really enjoying it! Now that I mention it, I may go to bed early to get some more reading in! Enjoy! :cool:

Blush_01

I don't do Christmas book lists. They inevitably get ignored, and instead I get an assortment Danielle Steele, Catherine Cookson, Cecelia Aherne etc. Instead I request book vouchers now. I have yet to get a book voucher, but I still get the odd Danielle Steele. For some "light reading".

I have so many books I have nowhere to put them, they're all hanging around waiting to be read.

I don't think I'll buy any more until I have at least one pile finished. (My room - both in Dublin and at home - is embarrassingly cluttered with lots of books I have intended to read for a long time.)

John

Blush_01 wrote: »

I don't do Christmas book lists. They inevitably get ignored, and instead I get an assortment Danielle Steele, Catherine Cookson, Cecelia Aherne etc. Instead I request book vouchers now. I have yet to get a book voucher, but I still get the odd Danielle Steele. For some "light reading".

I have so many books I have nowhere to put them, they're all hanging around waiting to be read.

I don't think I'll buy any more until I have at least one pile finished. (My room - both in Dublin and at home - is embarrassingly cluttered with lots of books I have intended to read for a long time.)

I'd stop asking for anything related to books if I kept being given books like that!

Blush_01

John wrote: »

I'd stop asking for anything related to books if I kept being given books like that!

I've tried explaining... it doesn't work. I have no problem with light hearted, easy to read books. I have no problem with "chocolate" books. I just... well, words fail me at the moment.

squeakyduck

John wrote: »

Good selection, Ellmann's biography is great. I've got that Lucia Joyce biog in my to read pile (along with about another ten Joyce related books), haven't delved into it yet. I did get it cheap in Hodges Figgis (less than a fiver for the hardback), suggest your mam has a look around before buying it.

I've only one novel on my Santa list and that's C by Tom McCarthy. The other books are all about music and sound art.

Could you PM me the joyce related books? I was trying to find FW in town, but everywhere has sold out of it? One guy asked: why is such a little girl trying to read such a big book?! :rolleyes:

IvyTheTerrible

I don't ask for books anymore, cos I always end up with something I've read already. I ask for vouchers instead.

Busi_Girl08

So far. Just one, and I technically already have it (I bought it one day in town, and then Mum paid me back the money and hid it, so it will be a little stocking filler ) Derren Brown's new book.

I'm kind of hoping I will get a voucher or 2, because there are a couple of other books I wouldn't mind getting.

I'd really like to get It by Stephen King, might see if the big brother will get it for me

Eliot Rosewater

Grievous wrote: »

P.s Atlas Shrugged....................are you insane? Don't waste your money.

Interesting you should mention Atlas Shrugged, it actually was on the top of my wishlist (being the first added) but I shifted it to the end before posting here to avoid being heckled for my taste! It gets a lot of bad press, for sure, but it seems to influence a lot of people so for that it merits reading, in my opinion. I read The Communist Manifesto, too, after all.

Lady von Purple

A collection of essays by john mcgahern. Love of the world and other essays, I think it's called. I'm not a huge fan of his novels but I've read a few of his interviews and I think he's a really interesting person. Possibly the most recent Joe Abercrombie novel, but I hate to read trilogies a book per year, I'd rather wait until all three are out... It could be a while :-(

dr gonzo

Wow, peoples christmas lists seem to be brimming with literary heavyweights, I would be embarrassed to share my wishlist on here after reading Eliot Rosewater's.

I have a few on the way that im looking forward to though:

At swim-two-birds
The Devil in the White City
Siddhartha
The Lost City of Z

As you can see, they are most definitely not Joyce biographies

Manach

Pirates arghh - "On Stranger Tides" by Tim Powers.

Sergeant

The Name of the Rose - would love to give this another shot.

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Balano - 2666 was one of the most visceral novels I've ever read.

A Jeremy Clarkson book - I find his articles funny.

perri winkles

I know I have a voucher coming my way, but I've also asked for:

At swim two birds
Water for Elephants (Can't wait to read this one!)
The Slap

Dibble

common sense brigade wrote: »

One of my favourite all time books is , ' The go between ' by L.P. Hartley. i'd love a first edition! 'The past is a foreign country they do things differently there'

I agree, superb book.

I have the new Keith Richards autobiography and the Abandoned Mansions of Ireland books on my list.....fingers crossed!

kylith

I bought the Necrocomnicoc a while back, so I might give that a read. Recently got given a copy of Signature in the Cell which I'm debating reading. I'm an athiest so I'm not sure whether it'll give me a good laugh or make me incredibly angry.

dr gonzo

kylith wrote: »

I bought the Necrocomnicoc a while back, so I might give that a read.

Is that the Lovecraft collection...? I got one of his and keep meaning to read it, definitely over christmas.

kylith

dr gonzo wrote: »

Is that the Lovecraft collection...? I got one of his and keep meaning to read it, definitely over christmas.

It is indeed. I do like a bit of Lovecraft.

Novella

I have an obsession with Sylvia Plath, so every year, someone buys me a book of her poetry or another copy of The Belljar. I don't mind, I like collecting them.

I also have asked for the latest Jodi Picoult book, because it's the only one I don't have and I figured asking for it would save me a few euro, and a couple of 2010 best sellers - whatever my mam picks.

UpCork

I know I'm getting Ryan Tubridy's book on JFK and "One Day".

Am going to wait for the sales to buy a rake of other books. Buy so many in the sales or from the bargain basemant in Hoggis Figgis when I'm in Dublin over Christmas.

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.