Secret Santa!!!
Feb. 2nd, 2009 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlyswotWell, I think that the 2008 Secret Santa gift exchange is now officially over, with the arrival of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stmargarets's gift at my flat this afternoon. She posted it on November 5th. Today is, um, February 2nd. So, not quite three months. I'm glad I don't have to rely on the Canadian postal service very often. Still, it's nearer last Christmas than next, which is something.
Anyway, onto the good stuff. She sent me... books, of course!
Three lovely books, all of which were explained in her letter:
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris. This is one whichstmargarets had recommended to me before. It's a series of reflections on the author's time in a Benedictine monastery and looks really fascinating.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. I've never read any Rushdie, though I feel I should have done. This looks like a great place to start.
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery because, as Mary says, she is THE Canadian author and also a Queen of Fluff. And, because she's so lovely, Mary has sent me her own copy of this, because she couldn't get hold of a new copy in time(!) Which makes it all the more special - I shall really treasure this one.
Thanks, Mary!
stmargarets's gift at my flat this afternoon. She posted it on November 5th. Today is, um, February 2nd. So, not quite three months. I'm glad I don't have to rely on the Canadian postal service very often. Still, it's nearer last Christmas than next, which is something.Anyway, onto the good stuff. She sent me... books, of course!
Three lovely books, all of which were explained in her letter:
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris. This is one which
stmargarets had recommended to me before. It's a series of reflections on the author's time in a Benedictine monastery and looks really fascinating.Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. I've never read any Rushdie, though I feel I should have done. This looks like a great place to start.
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery because, as Mary says, she is THE Canadian author and also a Queen of Fluff. And, because she's so lovely, Mary has sent me her own copy of this, because she couldn't get hold of a new copy in time(!) Which makes it all the more special - I shall really treasure this one.
Thanks, Mary!