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Old Christmas Threads (gifts, well wishes, etc)

Hope everyone had a good Christmas.

We got a good haul of books this year - 16 in total with a good mix of fiction and non-fiction. (We share the books in our household, so what one person gets we all get. :D )

  • IDEAS: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Mind - assorted authors
  • Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The New Penguin History of the World - J. M Roberts
  • Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
  • Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
  • The World is Flat - Thomas L. Freidman
  • The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
  • Watchman - Ian Rankin
  • Conscious Consumption - Paul Pellizari
  • The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market - John Gittings
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
  • Ghost Wars: The History of the CIA and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 - Steve Coll
  • Nationalism: A very short introduction - Steven Grosby
  • 20th Century Photography - Museum Ludwig Cologne
  • Auto Repair for Dummies
  • Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood

Plus $50 worth of gift cards!
 
StillILearn said:
Have you ever downloaded off the internet? From amazon.com for instance? Or somebody like that?
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Nope. I only listen to junky books that I don't care a lot about on my MP3 player because I use it when I run and I often have company so it can be weeks between listens.
 
I read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (liked it) and got the two Allende books for a young friend. I can't even remember what I finally got the thirteen year old g'kid, but I'll report back here if she gives me any feedback at all. Thanks for all your suggestions. :)

They gave me a nano iPod! :D I have dial-up, and have been downloading The French Lieutenant's Woman since about eight-thirty this morning. It's fifteen hours plus worth of listenng, and I guess that's how long it'll end up taking to download it. I wonder how many hours worth of audio books I will be able to store on one of these little nano guys.

Any geeks around here? ;)

Meanwhile, I'm thinking of wearing my new iPod as a necklace. :cool:
 
Goodness, I just saw this thread! What did you eventually get them?

I'd have recommended the Earthsea cycle by Ursula Le Guin, starts with A Wizard of Earthsea. They are marketed as children's books, but it's a rollicking good ride for adults too.

I mean, if your eldest can tackle books like the best of them, I say take the plunge and read Guy Gavriel Kay. I say, Lions of Al-Rassan.

Waaaiiitt.... Christmas is over! Duh! New Year present, then...

A nano? You must be the coolest mom in town now. :)

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G'ma. The coolest G'ma. Is it still cool to say geek? I'm tellin' ya, it's so hard to keep up! :D

Yup. I have my little nano. How many hours do you think I can store on it?

I will take your book suggestions into serious consideration. Her b'day is in January. ;)
 
Okay, geek g'ma. :D

The mileage on your nano varies on lots of geek stuff. For instance, audible allows a 6 hour book to be downloaded in a few levels of quality. The lower the quality the smaller the size, the higher the chance of it fitting into your nano. Just have to find the right balance.

I'm betting you can store upwards of 10 hours of audio.

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Oops. I am currently trying (have been for over twelve hours now) to download about seventeen and a half hours of John Fowles into (onto?) my nano.

It's such a cute little thing too. :eek:
 
This is making me nostalgic. I used to look forward to Christmas for the books I would get-I remember once getting a three volume set in a slipcase of the Tell Me Why series by Arkady Leokum. I don't think my family saw me for days except at suppertime. :rolleyes:
 
I bought my grandaughter this box set for Christmas :

Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside) (Paperback)

Plus I bought her Forest of Pygmies by Isabel Allende.
 
I liked a more fascistoid logo of a tin drummer on a Scandinavian dvd edition of the movie adaptation more but this forum is supposedly to be mainly about books and I think I'm less likely to be sued with this.
 
My christmas tree won't burn!

We just took down our christmas decorations and as celebration we decided to burn the tree. We took it out into the driveway and propped it up with boards then I tried to light it with matches. I figured it would be easy because the needles were dry and falling off. Nope, they wouldn't catch. Next I tried a propane torch. It took a while but eventually the needles caught and went up for about thirty seconds. All it burned was one side of the tree. When this happened my dog went beserk trying to catch the burning needles out of the air. I tried that again three more times untill all the needles were gone but the wood of the tree just would not catch. Eventually I had to give up because it was too cold outside. The tree is still sitting out there in my driveway, a blackened skeleton that would not give up the spirit of christmas.
 
If this were a Laurel and Hardy film or a Buggs Bunny cartoon, your house - and your neighboor's houses - would have burned down, your dog would have caught fire, and so would your own pants. The only thing that would have been unburned would be the tree. So, consider it your good fortune that all you have to do now is cart your blackened tree away.
uhhhh- this IS a real tree, not an artificial one...right?
 
Over here the local council run a free christmas tree shredding service then later in the year they sell you your old tree back as a bag of garden mulch :D
 
Aardvark said:
Over here the local council run a free christmas tree shredding service then later in the year they sell you your old tree back as a bag of garden mulch :D
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Ha! :D And then they increase your council tax to cover this free service!
 
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