Christmas books

• From Baghdad, With Love by Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman with Melinda Roth
  

• The Haj by Leon Uris
  

• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  

• The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
  

• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
  

• The Natural Science of Stupidity by Paul Tabori
  

• The Disheveled Dictionary by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
  

• Froth & Scum by Andie Tucher
  

• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
  

• Atonement by Ian McEwan
  

• The Deluxe Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon (another Lynn recommendation - Lynn & Susan S, too, I think)^*
  

• Compulsion by Meyer Levin

• True Grit by Charles Portis
  

• The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
  

hmmmm.....

Looking at this list, I don't necessarily see joy and euphoria breaking out Christmas morn' when folks open up their dog-eared Amazon Marketplace copies of War of the Worlds and Deluxe Transitive Vampire.

I will have to do better.


^* question: Do I have the nerve to wrap this up and give it to C. for Christmas?