After nine years of marriage and thirteen or so years of together-ness, my husband and I cut to the chase when it comes to the holidays and just give each other Amazon wish lists, with agreed on predetermined spending limits (both of our birthdays are also within a month or so of Christmas too). We both generally go rogue and get some off-item lists, but it's nice to have something to fall back on (and boy do we both). It's not necessarily romantic or creative, but it relieves a lot of our stress and we get what we truly want. Here are some of the books I asked for this year (I do not expect to get them all):
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (got this one for my birthday)
Underground Airlines by Ben Winters
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
My Life Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst
Chemistry by Weike Wang
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
The Futilitarians by Anne Gisleson (got this one for my birthday)
Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Good Without God by Greg Epstein
The Relive Box and Other Stories by TC Boyle
Things I'ms Seeing Without You by Peter Bognanni
In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
And a few I've added in the last few days to my personal wish list:
Outline by Rachel Cusk
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Future Home of the Living Gods by Louise Erdrich
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
You guys are better than us (married 9 years and together 13 too!) We don’t even do the wishlist thing — we usually don’t even do gifts — we’re so bad about getting the stuff that would be gifts on our own (or for each other) but not waiting til a holiday!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!