Barbara wants to know:
What books did you get for Christmas (or whichever holiday you may have celebrated last month)?
Do you usually ask for books on gift-giving occasions or do you prefer to buy them yourself?
Normally, I prefer to buy books on my own. I have put the word out to those who might be buying me a birthday present in June that I’d like a complete set of the works of Jane Austen, one where the books match each other. I have so many books that I worry someone would give me a copy of one I already own or have read.
Having said that, I did get books for Christmas. My LibraryThing Santa, youthfulzombie, gave me The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1) by Patrick Rothfuss and Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel by Johnathan Maberry, neither of which I had heard of, but both look really cool. I also bought a book for myself from Amazon with Christmas cash my mom sent… lol… the title is a bit embarrassing: Tarnsman of Gor by John Norman. On SecondLife, there is a whole Gorean community, so I thought I’d read the first book of the series that inspired them. Not sure how I’ll like it, though.
Check out other answers to this week’s BTT questions 🙂
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In the Shadow of Mt. TBR 
Sounds like excellent book-loot to me 🙂 I was a very lucky girl this Christmas, too! Here is my BTT response.
I read Patient Zero earlier last year! It’s a horror/thriller with zombies! fun read.
The title of your post is funny!!!
I hear the Gor books are awesomely bad. Certainly I’ve been told that my inner feminist will have a conniption if I read them. So I’m curious about what you’ll think of them. 😀