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My favourite local independent news source has put together an exhaustive list of bookish gift ideas for everyone on your list, even the weirdos.
Books are the safest of Christmas gift-giving bets: everybody likes to read, right? Even if your special (or unspecial) someone doesn't really read, we've got you covered. This year's Tyee Christmas Book List -- our second-annual selection of worthy titles and possible recipients features everything from naughty picture books to pretty foodie tomes, as well as the much-touted How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read. You might want to keep that one for yourself.
Some examples of their highly customized approach:
For your hippie neighbour who likes to let it all hang out:
Wreck Beach by Carellin Brooks (Transmontanus).
For the yuppie neighbour who spends more time on his shrubs than you do with your children:
Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden by Don Gayton (Thistledown Press).
For that hard-to-shop-for fan of graphic-novel memoirs about once-famous Chinese acrobat/magicians who taught Orson Welles about showbiz and were once the toast of vaudeville but today are unjustly forgotten, as told by the acrobat/magician's great-granddaughter, a Vancouver filmmaker who discovered a lot about herself and her family as she researched this fascinating story:
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir by Ann Marie Fleming (Riverhead/Penguin).
December 14, 2007 at 01:54 pm by Rob Peters, 571 views, 6 comments
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at 14:45 on December 14th, 2007
I'm definitely not pro-xmas-consumption, but I do have a soft spot for good paperbacks and hardcovers. Books are the only gift that I feel less guilt about giving & receiving. Maybe that's why my "still to read" stack is piled so high.
at 15:03 on December 14th, 2007
Rob Peters, good stuff. If anyone wants to wow me, they can give me a gift certificate from Amazon.com
at 16:34 on December 14th, 2007
Rob Peters, Hooray for books! Good stuff.
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FormLess Scribblesat 17:52 on December 14th, 2007
illegible Poet's play books in order to transcend technology.
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at 21:54 on December 15th, 2007
Rob, a very interesting and creative article with great recommendations. I have a few people on my list that will now get a book. Thanks
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williamfritzjrat 22:09 on January 8th, 2008
This book cover was created to complete a learning project organized by Nova University and Broward County Libraries called TLC 2.0 using http://www.signgenerator.org/.
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