Musing Mondays: Christmas Book Buying (Dec. 22)

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about Christmas book buying…

In these last few days before Christmas, I'm sure there are plenty of us scrambling to get our last minute shopping done. Are you buying any books for friends or family (or even yourself)? Do you expect to recieve any bookish gifts from others - books, or book-related?


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I don't tend to buy books as gifts for others - I don't have a lot of bookish friends, and even for those, I usually buy gift certificates for the book shop so they can get something they want. This still applies at Christmas time where, accept for the very occasional (none this year) book that I KNOW someone has been looking at and not purchased yet.

For much the same reason I don't usually receive book gifts (book-related, sometimes) for Christmas as my family isn't a reading one and they have often said that they don't know what to get, what I already have, or what I'd like. This year, however, my sister said that she wanted to buy me a book and I had great fun writing up a 'wish list' for her!

I have, in the past, bought myself a book for Christmas and put it under the tree - there is ALWAYS something to me, from me under the tree - but no books this year I'm afraid. I bought some, but they didn't quite make it to the wrapping stage.