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It's that time of year again! If you like getting books for Christmas, or if you think Christmas is all humbug but still like getting books, this is the thread for you. Whether you've been around for all of the previous Secret Santas or are new to TBB entirely, you are invited to join this Secret Santa and spread the joy of books this year. The Rules
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And, finally... Merry Christmas! Happy reading!
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Thread recap, better late than never! Tree Goat sent Gertrude Perkins The Secret Service, by Wendy Walker A Brief History of Portable Literature, by Enrique Vila-Matas Phototaxis, by Olivia Tapiero Locus Solus, by Raymond Roussel Gertrude Perkins sent Opopanax Sleepwalking, by Lauren Monger The Holiday Yards of Florencio Morales, by Amy V. Kitchener and Florencio Morales The Blast Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth Art prints Opopanax sent The Grey Very Bad Poetry, edited by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras Fantasticland, by Mike Bockoven The Grey sent Chip McFuck Relics, by Tim Lebbon Empire State, by Adam Christopher Badass: The Birth of a Legend, by Ben Thompson The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, by Reif Larson A Rage Page notebook Chip McFuck sent Sham bam bamina! A Gronking to Remember, by Lacey Noonan Sudden Death, by Álvaro Enrigue Uzumaki, by Junji Ito A handmade notebook Sham bam bamina! sent Tree Goat Fourth Mansions, by R. A. Lafferty The Emperor, by Ryszard Kapuśiński The Dramatic Symphony, by Andrey Bely A chocolate orange and candied ginger Mr. Nemo sent Hieronymous Alloy The Eternaut, by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López Let My People Go Surfing, by Yvon Chouinard If Cats Disappeared from the World, by Genki Kawamura Our Shared Storm, by Andrew Dana Hudson Hieronymous Alloy sent Antivehicular Greyfax Grimwald, Paragon Fairingay, Calix Stay, and Squaring the Circle, by Niel Hancock Black Marigolds & Coloured Stars, by E. Powys Mathers Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, by Fu Songling Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire Antivehicular sent NTRabbit The Cyberiad, by Stanisław Lem Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian Fires on the Plain, by Shohei Ooka The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien NTRabbit sent Punkin Spunkin History of the World Map by Map, edited by Peter Snow Punkin Spunkin sent Lord Zedd-Repulsa Around the World in 80 Trees, by Jonathan Drori Lord Zedd-Repulsa sent Dr. Activisionary Manhunt, by Gretchen Felker-Martin Echo, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Dr. Activisionary sent TheCog Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, by Marjane Satrapi TheCog sent Teach The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré, edited by Tim Cornwell Teach sent Rid Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics, by Jonathan Wilson A notebook and other extras Rid sent PatMarshall Fog, by Miguel De Unamuno The Honjin Murders, by Seishi Yokomizo Beware of Pity, by Stefan Zweig PatMarshall sent FPyat Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, by Mike Wallace The Historical Atlas of New York City, by Eric Homberger Lost Christianities, by Bart D. Ehrman FPyat sent Mr. Nemo An omnibus of the Gormenghast novels, by Mervyn Peake Planet of Adventure, by Jack Vance War Day, by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka Working, by Studs Terkel Additionally, a mysterious benefactor sent Clash of Angels, by Jonathan Daniels, to Gertrude Perkins The Lizard of Oz, by Richard Seltzer, to Antivehicular The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, by Reif Larson, to Mr. Nemo Six Novels in Woodcuts, a two-volume omnibus of Lynd Ward's wordless novels, to Chip McFuck Einstein on Humanism, by Albert Einstein, The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer, and Faces of Science, by V. V. Nalimov, to Lord Zedd-Repulsa Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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Nov 4, 2022 02:09
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Signing up here. Give me the craziest thing you can, good or bad.
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Nov 4, 2022 02:14
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Sure why not. I have a reduced budget so I can't promise a huge haul of BOOK but I will do my best to contribute something neat! As for me, I'd make the same request as last year: Weiiiiiird poo poo For reference/inspiration, my goodreads Gertrude Perkins fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Nov 6, 2022 |
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Nov 4, 2022 23:15
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Count me in! I love to spread some holiday cheer  Send me something weird, funny, or whatever impressed you the most.
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Nov 5, 2022 22:05
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i will book i want something both hopeful and interesting
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Nov 6, 2022 01:55
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Sure I got some cool stuff last year. In the same boat as others though I have a limited xmas budget but I’m in for doing my best. Personal request is just something unique, something I wouldn’t be likely to get for myself This is everything I read this year for an idea of my tastes
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Nov 7, 2022 04:00
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I run the SS for the watch thread in YLLS, and I think it would be nice to be involved in a SS that I don't organise! I'll email now. How do we check our victim's tastes? Their posting history? Edit - if it's any help at all, here's the start of my fiction, and some of the non-fiction from the other end of the bookshelves.  
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Nov 7, 2022 20:05
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The Christmas wishes are in the posts; yours should have one too. If your match's wish is more general than you'd like, then sure, see what books they've been posting about.
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Nov 8, 2022 01:33
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Sure, I'll participate for once. I would like something interesting in translation (to English), I've spent the year reading more or less only civil war and napoleon books, so I need to break out of the dad box.
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Nov 8, 2022 01:37
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I'm in. Looking for anything I can't get in ebook or mobi form preferably. Like something you'd appreciate more in physical form cuz I got a billion ebooks Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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Nov 8, 2022 02:35
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Hi! I would like to receive a horror novel. Something scary and perhaps just a tad hosed up, not like full on. Not like, ya know, snuff, or the written fiction version of snuff.
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Nov 11, 2022 02:37
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 The mysterious benefactor from last year has returned. Five books will be sent to those who claim them first, within the USA.
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Nov 13, 2022 06:36
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I’m in. Based on the east coast. I’ll post what I read this year and my opinions later on to give my Santa some guidelines. Also claiming one of the MYSTERY gifts.
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Nov 13, 2022 07:13
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Claiming a mystery gift because it's my birthday next week.
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Nov 13, 2022 07:31
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The mysterious Canada hater 
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Nov 13, 2022 16:42
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I'd love to claim one of the mystery gifts!
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Nov 13, 2022 19:06
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:Claiming a mystery gift because it's my birthday next week.
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Nov 13, 2022 21:14
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I'm in New Mexico and making the same request as last year because it got me some very cool stuff: nonfiction about a topic the giver finds fascinating. Edit 2: Email sent! Lord Zedd-Repulsa fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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Nov 13, 2022 22:11
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Sure, I'll take a mystery gift! I just sent my signup email. In terms of gift preferences, I'm interested in short fiction, poetry/prose poetry (been really into James Tate lately, so modern surreal stuff would be fun), whodunit mysteries, and some horror, albeit usually not splatter-type stuff. Literature in translation is always a good time. I also love weird used books, especially godawful self-pub garbage, so surprise me.
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Nov 14, 2022 00:46
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Signing up. Email sent. My request is something non-scifi. Here's all the books i've read over the last couple years. I'm really looking to break out of my comfort zone. Pandoras Star Judas Unchained The Risen Empire House of Suns The Quantum Magician Use of Weapons Player of Games All systems red artifical condition rogue protocol exit strategy When Gravity Fails Spin State Spin Control Ninefox Gambit Raven Strategem A Memory Called Empire The Human Factor Network Effect The Collapsing Empire The Consuming Fire The last emperox Great North Road Blindsight Echopraxia Caliban's War (The Expanse (2)) abbadons gate Cibola Burn nemesis games babylon's ashes Scum and Villany The Spire The Instant hypnosis and rapid induction handbook Unsong Ignition Normal Accidents A Desolation Called Peace The Girl With All The Gifts Network Effect the light brigade prefect Elysium Fire Three Assassins TheCog fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Dec 4, 2022 |
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Nov 14, 2022 01:18
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Sham bam bamina! posted:
Oops yeah I'd like to claim this if I may!!
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Nov 14, 2022 11:47
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You may. All of the mystery gifts are now claimed.
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Nov 14, 2022 19:50
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okay i will sign up. i don't know what i like, really; i'm just sort of a dilettante. poetry and prose that has either significant art or skill behind it? i made a goodreads as a pandemic activity so it has a couple years of stuff on it so maybe that will be helpful https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/97476763-birdbassador Tree Goat fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Nov 18, 2022 |
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Nov 18, 2022 04:30
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Sham bam bamina! posted:
I haven't gotten a confirmation yet, and wanted to make sure I didn't get caught in a spam filter or something.
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Nov 18, 2022 14:24
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TheCog posted:I haven't gotten a confirmation yet, and wanted to make sure I didn't get caught in a spam filter or something.
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Nov 18, 2022 21:00
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I would like to have a copy of Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace. If you want to know what kind of others books I might like, my Goodreads shows what books I've read and would like to read. The unifying factor of the books I like best is that they are both pleasantly written and educational in some respect. https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/68609228?order=a&sort=title
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Nov 19, 2022 04:04
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 book santa!I like to read both fiction and non-fiction, (usually scifi, fantasy, historical fiction, and history, but I have an open mind) anything that impressed you or you think I might like is cool!  This is my goodreads, which is about as comprehensive as you can make it. Everything on there I already own, just a matter of whether or not I have read it yet. Shamefully still haven't read all the cool books I got last year, but that's not the point.Booko is a good site that lets you both find best prices, and find stores in Australia that are not directly funding Jeff Bezos. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Nov 21, 2022 |
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Nov 19, 2022 07:02
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You can count me in again. Thanks for setting this up, I always enjoy doing both the giving and receiving of TBB Secret Santa. Please no poetry, but otherwise I'm good with whatever you think is interesting. Here's my Goodreads with everything I've read.
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Nov 19, 2022 20:30
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If I get you I'm going to send you poetry with a note that says, "You've just not read the right poetry!" Bad Santa.
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Nov 19, 2022 20:49
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gift poetry, oh noetry
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Nov 19, 2022 22:39
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And yet you use poetry yourself. Curious.
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Nov 19, 2022 22:44
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Mr. Nemo posted:I’m in. Based on the east coast. Adding more background on myself. I'm a big sci-fi reader, mostly the classic stuff. I really like post apoc stuff. I haven't read Wind up girl or the Atwood one. This year I went on a huge King binge, i'd only read IT and Stand previously, and found him very engaging. I've been reading chronologically, next up should be Christine. Lately I've been enjoying a lot of non-fiction. I read David Simon's book, the wire is my favorite show, and Homicide blew my mind. Also some business books for school but that's boring. My not comprehensive good reads https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/67976188-mr-nemo?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read&view=covers
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Nov 21, 2022 04:01
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This sounds like fun, so I'm in! I love me some metafiction, 'interactive' fictions (e.g., game books, 'puzzle' books), and fictions created via non-traditional methods (e.g., shuffle literature, AI-written fiction, etc). So, something like that would be great.
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Nov 24, 2022 18:38
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Sign-ups are now closed. Matches will be made shortly.
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Nov 26, 2022 07:00
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Have the matches been sent out? Just checking as I haven't received an email yet.
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Nov 28, 2022 23:50
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Matches have been made. I apologize for the delay; I had a much busier weekend than expected.
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Nov 29, 2022 05:28
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No need to apologize! Thank you for sending the email!
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Nov 29, 2022 19:17
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Rid posted:
Disclaimer: not your santa But could you specify what you've read already? Or link to good reads? So you don't end up with S and that book about cancer and sports that's made out of loose pages if you've read them already. Also I like that too so I could use the recs.
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