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I didn't give very many books as gifts this year - this was a year for getting other kinds of gifts for most people. But I did give a few. I got The Coldest Winter, a book about the history of the Korean War, and Winged Victory, a book about World War II aviation, for my father. He has a special interest in military aviation history, so I was kind of surprised that he didn't already own Winged Victory, and when I discovered he didn't it seemed like the obvious and perfect gift. I got my mother Finding Betty Crocker, a book about the corporately created fictitious every-housewife, and Dear Cary, a biography of Gary Cooper by Dyan Cannon.
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Those all sound like books that should be on my list. I don't typically gift books. I don't trust my taste for other people unless they say they'd like a specific book and I happen to have read a certain author or series that fits that. http://www.thebookcove.com/2014/12/what-is-feature-and-follow-f-is-weekly.html
ReplyDelete@Jessi from the Book Cove: My father is usually pretty easy to buy books for. Pretty much any history book related to the Civil War, the American West, or World War II will be perfect. I just need to make sure he doesn't already have the book in question. For my mother, it is more hit or miss - although she liked the Betty Crocker book, my father seems to be more interested in it because he likes industrial history as well.
DeleteI don't know why, but I want that Betty Crocker book!
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@Contact Gail: It looks like a really good book. What sold me on getting it for my mother were the letters on the back of the book - one was a letter from Ernest Hemmingway's wife about the troubles their friends in Kenya had in getting their cakes to rise. The other was a letter from someone who had found a twenty year old angel food cake mix in their bomb shelter and wondered if it would still be good. The answers to each of these letters from Betty Crocker are priceless.
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