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akirlu:
* DVD - The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (we saw this on CBC recently, and she seemed charmed)
* DVD - Mamma Mia (This makes the third medium I've gotten this for her -- stage, movie, and now home video. She's enough of an ABBA fan that she seems to like it each time.)
* KitchenAid 5-pc. Gadget Set - Red
* KitchenAid 4-pc. Culinary Utensil Set - Red
* KitchenAid 4.5-qt. Ultra Power Stand Mixer - Empire Red
...have I mentioned she likes red?
For me:
* Champion Plus Swiss Army knife
* gloves, mock turtle shirt, and silk undershirt, all from Lands End
* Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
* American Lion by Jon Meacham (A bio of Andrew Jackson, mostly on the strength of a funny interview with Jon Stewart. No block of cheese in the index, though.)
* Europe Between the Oceans by Barry Cunliffe (Something I suggested, mostly because this very enthusiastic review in The Atlantic made it sound like it had my name written allllll over it. "Europe Between the Oceans, at once compelling and judicious, is an extraordinary book. In a work of analytical depth and imaginative sweep, Sir Barry Cunliffe, the emeritus professor of European archaeology at Oxford, has synthesized the voluminous recent record of excavations from Iceland to Turkey, the burgeoning scholarship on DNA and ancient populations, and research on topics ranging from Stone Age shipbuilding to trade in Muslim Spain and from salinity levels in the ancient Black Sea to state formation in Early Iron Age Denmark. --- Lavishly illustrated and replete with a sumptuous array of creatively conceived color maps, Cunliffe’s book is further proof that its publisher produces the most beautiful and intelligently designed works of scholarship in the humanities. I can’t think of a better gift this year for the historically minded reader." Yum.)
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In other news, working from home. Strange to be doing the overnight shift from here.
akirlu:* DVD - The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (we saw this on CBC recently, and she seemed charmed)
* DVD - Mamma Mia (This makes the third medium I've gotten this for her -- stage, movie, and now home video. She's enough of an ABBA fan that she seems to like it each time.)
* KitchenAid 5-pc. Gadget Set - Red
* KitchenAid 4-pc. Culinary Utensil Set - Red
* KitchenAid 4.5-qt. Ultra Power Stand Mixer - Empire Red
...have I mentioned she likes red?
For me:
* Champion Plus Swiss Army knife
* gloves, mock turtle shirt, and silk undershirt, all from Lands End
* Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
* American Lion by Jon Meacham (A bio of Andrew Jackson, mostly on the strength of a funny interview with Jon Stewart. No block of cheese in the index, though.)
* Europe Between the Oceans by Barry Cunliffe (Something I suggested, mostly because this very enthusiastic review in The Atlantic made it sound like it had my name written allllll over it. "Europe Between the Oceans, at once compelling and judicious, is an extraordinary book. In a work of analytical depth and imaginative sweep, Sir Barry Cunliffe, the emeritus professor of European archaeology at Oxford, has synthesized the voluminous recent record of excavations from Iceland to Turkey, the burgeoning scholarship on DNA and ancient populations, and research on topics ranging from Stone Age shipbuilding to trade in Muslim Spain and from salinity levels in the ancient Black Sea to state formation in Early Iron Age Denmark. --- Lavishly illustrated and replete with a sumptuous array of creatively conceived color maps, Cunliffe’s book is further proof that its publisher produces the most beautiful and intelligently designed works of scholarship in the humanities. I can’t think of a better gift this year for the historically minded reader." Yum.)
*^*^*
In other news, working from home. Strange to be doing the overnight shift from here.
