A suggested list of your recommendations on books to give as gifts this Holiday?
First thought, right thought. Just do it fast?
You can see my and other commenters’ recommendations here
1. Books for Strength
2. Books of Humor and/or Creativity
3. Books of /for Thinking, Depth, Sanity
4. Books for Males in your life
5. Books of your Guilty Pleasures
6. Bestsellers, Backlist, Midlist books
7. Poetry books
8. Books you loved as a child
9. Books you love as an adult
10. Category of your choice
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re #4, books for males… I placed this here because I hear quite often that women buy more books for men, than men buy for themselves. I do not know if this is true, or sort of a strange publishing urban legend. But, just in case, I put it on the list. For my husband this Christmas, he asked for a book by a master woodworker/ lathe artist, for instance. A good many of us appreciate ‘hints.’
P.S. Please buy books from your local indie bookseller. We don’t want the days of being able to actually talk to salespeople who read books, and know the works of authors all the way back to the 1900s to the present, to disappear… let alone the handselling of books that indies are known for… you know, where they find out your interests, and then are always looking out for you, finding cool books to show you most every time you come in.