Recommendations

RSS New at The Constant Conversation

  • More from the NBCC Awards March 15, 2010
    With jokes from Joyce Carol Oates and "wild imaginings" from 92-year-old winner Diana Athill -- not to mention talk of a sequel from "Wolf Hall" author Hilary Mantel -- this year's NBCC Awards were noteworthy for their celebration of literature by women. […]
    Matt Jakubowski
  • Broom of the System Gets Cover Makeover, Plus One Cover I Love and One I Hate March 15, 2010
    DFW's latest cover makeover, plus a great-looking cover and a really not-so-great-looking cover. […]
    Scott Esposito
  • Rereading Wallace Stevens March 15, 2010
    Since buying The Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens at City Lights, I’ve been rereading many Stevens poems and trying to understand it from a more mature perspective.  Last time I read a vast amount of Stevens was when I was 22 for a class on Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Yeats, and Marianne Moore.  With fifteen years [...] […]
    Soo Jin Oh
  • Best Translated Book Award 2010 March 15, 2010
    The 2010 Best Translated Book Awards were announced last night at Idlewild Books, Manhattan. The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven, translated by Dalya Bilu won the fiction award, and the poetry award went to Elena Fanailova for The Russian Version, translated from the Russian by Genya Turovskaya and Stephanie Sandler. Check out the [...] […]
    Jeff Waxman
  • NBCCA March 15, 2010
    The National Book Critics Circle Award is announcing their winners tonight.  The diversity of their nominations, from the better known (such as Hilary Mantel and Mary Karr) to the less mainstream (such as Rachel Zucker and Eula Biss), makes the blog entries on the nominees an interesting read.  I added Stephen Burt’s Close Calls with [...] […]
    Soo Jin Oh
  • Different Ways of Translating al-Khamissi March 15, 2010
    Translator Jonathan Wright said last night that he felt, for the English-language reader, "religious references [in Arabic literature] are in general problematic." […]
    M Lynx Qualey
  • Dear Camera: Bees and Poems. “An accidental moltingâ€� March 15, 2010
    Poems and Paintings by Salena Gerdes and Joseph P. Wood in the newest issue of Dear Camera […]
    Carrie Olivia Adams
  • Norwegian Wood Film Adaptation March 15, 2010
    Haruki Murakami’s breakout novel, Norwegian Wood, is being made to a film. But wait! There’s more! It’s being scored by Radiohead. […]
    Scott Esposito
  • Out of Print, Out of Mind March 15, 2010
    To mark the one-year anniversary of his outstanding literary webzine, The Second Pass, editor John Williams asked a whole bunch of reading folks to wax on about their favorite OP titles. […]
    Jeff Waxman
  • “It is one of the hardest days of the year to bear. Truly a memorable 10th of March,â€� or, Time travel with Thoreau March 15, 2010
    Despite Eliot's oft-quoted line about April, we all know that March is really the cruelest month, refusing to set us free of winter's bleakness even as it tantalizes us with hints of spring. This year however, Thoreau's journals in hand, I've decided to choose my own March. […]
    Levi Stahl

Reader Picks
«  
  »

Christmas Books

Christmas Books

Sure to be a popular post-Christmas meme: What books did you give and receive for Christmas?

Receive
Truman Capote–In Cold Blood

Give
W.G. Sebald–The Emigrants
Haruki Murakami–Norweigan Wood
Alice Munro–Runaway
Haruki Murakami–After the Quake

Pass it on:
  • Print
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Blogplay
  • StumbleUpon
  • Twitter
December 27th, 2005 | Category: Uncategorized

4 comments to Christmas Books

  • Dave Munger
    December 27th, 2005 at 9:55 am

    Give:
    Starship Troopers
    Pendragon
    (to my 14-year-old son)
    The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
    The Canning Season
    (to my 12-year-old daughter)
    Receive:
    Consider the Lobster
    The Kite Runner

  • Scott
    December 27th, 2005 at 11:12 am

    So you did get the Wallace, eh? I hope you like it, Dave. If so, I highly recommend checking out his other essay collection. I like both, but I think A Supposedly Fun Thing is stronger.

  • Terri Saul
    December 27th, 2005 at 11:26 am

    Gave:
    Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    (to my 9 year old daughter)
    Little Women
    (to my 9 year old daughter)
    Received:
    Richard Misrach: Golden Gate
    Bought Myself:
    The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
    Pnin, Nabokov
    Atomik Aztex,
    Sesshu Foster
    Writing and Madness,
    Shoshana Felman

  • Dave Munger
    December 27th, 2005 at 11:38 am

    I cheated a bit with the DFW. Greta and I were at the bookstore shopping for stocking stuffers, and I grabbed it and asked her to put it in my stocking!

Leave a Reply

 

 

 

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>