Share-a-Gift at MPH
I just wanted to remind everyone that MPH’s Share-A-Gift Tree is up at the store.
For those of you who are not familiar, MPH sets up a Christmas tree in all their retail stores with gift tags for children from welfare homes like Salvation Army. The tag will tell you the name, gender and age of the recipient to help you choose a book for them.
I normally try to pick a teen boy because it’s hard to find books that would engage them, especially if you don’t know too much about YA literature. But all the boys were below ten so I picked the oldest girl and got her my ‘Book of the Year’.
Why yes, I did make a crack about sparkly vampires. ;P
The drawback about this kind of gift-giving is that you have no idea if they enjoyed it or if they are even the reading type. But I do this every year because I consider this my personal social responsibility as a reader.
There’s still a lot of tags on that tree last I looked, so go on over to MPH an get someone a good book!
MV Logos Hope
I stumbled upon this post just now and realised that I have a photo of Doulos’ successor, MV Logos Hope, from my visit last Saturday. I haven’t actually looked at the book fair yet because I didn’t have time. What I did was interview the captain and managing director for an article. You can read it here.
I also want to repost a photo of Captain Chris Hughes, because I think he is quite dashing.
Books – March 2011
Ape House – Sara Gruen
Exodus – Julie Bertagna
Unclutter Your Life In One Week – Erin Rooney Doland
The Cookie Book – Catherine Atkinson
Detox Health-Plan Cookbook – Maggie Pannell
First Cook Book – Bridget Jones
I just noticed the author of the last cookbook. No shit.
Bought in two batches, the cookbooks earlier in March and the rest yesterday.
I went into MPH to look for Tim Ferris’s 4 Hour Week but found Unclutter Your Life instead, which I was looking for last year. Sometimes I buy books written by bloggers I follow even if I suspect I already know half of what they’re gonna say.
Ape House is by the author of Water for Elephants. Never did get that book but I loved the audiobook.
Exodus sounds like something I started writing last year.
