all I want for Christmas
Dec. 23rd, 2009 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
levityWell, I have my two front teeth. Maybe two solid inches of height would work?
The books:
1. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
2. If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
3. A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernieres
4. Forty Years After, Alexandre Dumas
5. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
6. Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
7. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
8. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, the unabridged English translation, because the person who abridges the green-covered books does not agree with me. Yes, I know that the unabridged version is fourteen hundred pages long. Worst case scenario it can be a deadly weapon.
9. V for Vendetta, Alan Moore
10. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, likewise the unabridged English translation.
11. The Great Philippine Jungle Cafe, Alfred Yuson
12. Leaf Storm and other stories, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
13. The Sandman, Neil Gaiman, and if anyone is taking this seriously I'd like to specify: any volume that isn't Dream Country.
14. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, because our copy was eaten by termites. (This is the first time I'd had to use initials for this list. Wala lang.)
15. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
16. Unseen Academicals! Because it's there, and because hardcover editions cost a lot.
The nonbooks:
I normally don't have an option for nonbooks, not since I got that stuffed crocodile. Seeing as a flat in the heart of Manila isn't the sort of thing you get for Christmas and it's the only thing I can think of right now, maybe we can consider this option scrapped.
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I think Christmas makes people crazy. Today the grandmother has been to the grocery three times, the dog didn't eat the fallen bits of bread, and my grammar is failing me.
The books:
1. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
2. If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
3. A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernieres
4. Forty Years After, Alexandre Dumas
5. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
6. Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
7. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
8. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, the unabridged English translation, because the person who abridges the green-covered books does not agree with me. Yes, I know that the unabridged version is fourteen hundred pages long. Worst case scenario it can be a deadly weapon.
9. V for Vendetta, Alan Moore
10. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, likewise the unabridged English translation.
11. The Great Philippine Jungle Cafe, Alfred Yuson
12. Leaf Storm and other stories, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
13. The Sandman, Neil Gaiman, and if anyone is taking this seriously I'd like to specify: any volume that isn't Dream Country.
14. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, because our copy was eaten by termites. (This is the first time I'd had to use initials for this list. Wala lang.)
15. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
16. Unseen Academicals! Because it's there, and because hardcover editions cost a lot.
The nonbooks:
I normally don't have an option for nonbooks, not since I got that stuffed crocodile. Seeing as a flat in the heart of Manila isn't the sort of thing you get for Christmas and it's the only thing I can think of right now, maybe we can consider this option scrapped.
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I think Christmas makes people crazy. Today the grandmother has been to the grocery three times, the dog didn't eat the fallen bits of bread, and my grammar is failing me.
