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Just with Christmas coming I was wondering what everyone has on their Santa list for Christmas.

I can't make up my mind what to put on mine!:lol:

Quite fancy the Dawn French ' Dear Fatty' I think :lol:

Maybe we can get inspiration from ohter peoples ideas!

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Those are very restrained lists!

 

So far I have asked for

 

The Vampire's seduction - Raven Hart

Essential Tales - Anton Chekhov

Marley and Me - John Grogan

The 5 people you meet in heaven _ Mitch Albom

 

And there are more on my list for when other people ask what I want... :lol:

 

Including

Dear Fatty - Dawn French

Beyond Ugly - Constance Briscoe

 

To be fair, this is a xmas and birthday list - I was a December baby :lol:

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On my Wish List:

Dead Simple - Peter James

Dead Famous - Ben Elton

Relentless - Simon Kernick

Flesh House, Cold Granite and Broken Skin - Stuart MacBride

Therapy - Sebastian Fitzek

Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld

Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan

Loving Frank - Nancy Horan

 

 

So far I know I'm getting:

No Time For Goodbye - Linwood Barclay

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My list includes

 

Sharyn McCrumb: Bimbos of the Death Sun

Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Sebastian Fitzek: Therapy

John Grogan: Marley and Me

Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

 

I probably won't be getting any of these because my mother refuses to be Internet-literate and order these online from places where they are actually available (my parents live in a small town with no bookstores, just a very small, stupid and expensive selection of books in a food market). Also I think that my BF might not afford any of these, being student and all. I'll have to be my own Santa I think :lol:

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I have asked for really nice editions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, and I have huge wishlists on Amazon. I'm expecting a pretty good haul this year.

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"Simply Sexual" by Kate Pearce. I was lucky enough to win a signed copy of one of the series "Simply Sinful" and LOVED it.

 

"The Sacred Six Stones" by Matthew Reilly

"Carnal Desires" by Crystal Jordan

"The Black Dove" by Steve Hockensmith

 

And a ton of others. My Amazon wish list is huge too. I just got a book for research on the Mesoamerican culture and history. Kind of a Christmas present to me.

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I do, I do... I just dont know if I'll get them *laughs*

 

Ok, my wishlist includes:

 

Snow falling on cedars by David Guterson

The Shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A grain of wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O

Return to laughter by Eleonore Bowen

Waiting by Ha Jin

When we were bad by Charlotte Mendelson

Consumption by Kevin Patterson

Second class citizen by Buchi Emecheta

The 19th wife by David Ebershoff

La fureur du gange by Manohar Malgonkar

The bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andric

The Cairo trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

The Victoria vanishes by Christopher Fowler

Dreams from my father by Barack Obama

The book thief by Markus Zusak

The catcher in the rye by J. D. Salinger

The boy in the stripped pyjamas by John Boyne

 

I know, very long list... which is why I dont know wether I'll get any of them *laughs* But at least it gives paople choice :D

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I've emailed my wishlist to my Mum. She rarely checks it though, but she did say she would look.

 

I'm not hopeful though. I told her I wanted the Dark Materials trilogy. She went to Preston couple of days later (with my sister who was in the room when I said it) and went into Waterstones but couldn't remember what I had said. :D Either that or she did get it. Mum has a strange habit of telling us, in not so many words, what we have got for christmas.:)

 

I also have various books that have gone on my want list this year, including Dawn French's book, The Forgotten Garden, a western, and others. I really want Hans Urs Von Balthasars collection of four books entitled theo logic, but haven't asked for those yet.

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My Amazon wishlist is slightly out of control at 147 items. I haven't sent it to anyone in my family though so I'm unlikely to get anything off it! :)

 

I think I may get Stephen Fry in America from my Mum and Dad but hubby is unlikely to buy me a book - although hopefully he picked up on my 'Mr B's Emporium' hint!

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Marley and Me - John Grogan

The 5 people you meet in heaven _ Mitch Albom

 

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer (h/:)

 

John Grogan: Marley and Me

 

IThe book thief by Markus Zusak

Well if Santa doesn't deliver they are all on my shelves and you are welcome to borrow!

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Well if Santa doesn't deliver they are all on my shelves and you are welcome to borrow!

 

Thanks Louiseog, that's really nice of you :) I've already read Marley and me though and I wish to own it myself because I think I'll be rereading it many times so I guess borrowing is out of the question :)

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just give me a voucher for Borders! then i can have all the fun of wondering the aisles there, choosing my books! :)

 

i have given this as a rather large, can't be missed, do it or die, hint for a present already...

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