BTP's Bookish Christmas

Happy holidays everyone. Thankfully, at my house, books are gotten and given for Christmas. *CHEF's KISS - MUAH* Pieces of fiction, non-fiction, classics, first editions, and more flow out of brightly colored wrapping papers as the giver smiles with pride and the receiver shrieks exclamations of adoration and contentment. Here, without further adieu are the books (and bookish items) I got (and GAVE) for Christmas 2020.

BOOKS I GOT

A Classical Mystery Collection

A Collection of New Yorker Short Stories (1925 - 1960)

A Collection of New York Times Crossword Puzzles

Virgo by Stella Andromeda

And Then There Were None (collector's edition)

BOOKS I GAVE

The Grace Kelly Dress: A Novel by Brenda Janowitz

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (collector's edition)

A Mysterious Christie Pair: Death on the Nile and And Then There Were None

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

BOOKISH ITEMS I RECEIVED

Bibliophile by Jane Mount Porcelain bookends

The Great Gatsby Jordan Baker's golf putter memento

All the President's Men Judge Irwin's Pantheon and Colosseum posters

Parnassus (the bookstore) canvas bag

Booklover's enamel pin

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