Christmas book haul! 🎄

~ Ally Writes Things

Hello friends and fellow book lovers! I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season.

Today I am doing my Christmas book haul. I was fortunate enough to receive a lot of books this Christmas (as well as give a couple books I also wanted to read). I received all of the books on my wish list, so if you want to know the reasons why I want to read these books, you can read that post here!

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Books I received

From my wish list

  • This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
  • Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
  • The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
  • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
  • Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon
  • Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
  • The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
  • Asking For It by Louise O’Neill

Not from my wish list

  • Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan: this is Amy Tan’s memoir, and it sounds super interesting.
  • Beyond the Trees by Adam Shoalts: my family is a very outdoorsy family, and my brother has read and loved Shoalts’ other books. I’m super excited to read it and about Shoalts’ travels.
  • Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead: my brother got this for me because he said it “sounded like an Ally book” and it was very nearly on my wish list, so clearly he knows me well.

Books I gave but will still be reading

  • Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer
  • City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

I got both of these for my mom because they sounded like books she would enjoy but were also books I wanted to read.

I was also able to make a lovely rainbow of books with a bunch of the books we received! We didn’t have any green, though.

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So that’s my Christmas haul! Thank you very much to my parents and siblings for all the books. I am very lucky and grateful that I am able to receive so many books for Christmas 💕

What books did you get for Christmas? Have you read any of these? Let me know!

Ally xx

 

 

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14 thoughts on “Christmas book haul! 🎄”

  1. Nice haul! Spin the Dawn is a good book (just be prepared for the YA-ness of it, but since that’s how it’s marketed it’s exactly what it says on the tin). And I want to read This Is How You Read the Time War too, but I don’t own it yet so it doesn’t have a high priority yet. Happy Christmas!

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  5. Great haul! I’ve really liked the titles I’ve read from this stack so far (The Water Cure, Asking For It, and Sabrina), and I have several more of these on my TBR. I hope you love them all! 🙂

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