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A Smattering of Christmas Books…

The Bloomington Booksters had a wonderful selection of Christmas books to choose from thanks to tumblr folks, bloggers, tweeps, etc.  I thought it only fair to share with y’all a list of our favorite suggestions:

The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore

Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle

The Box of Delights by John Masefield

The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans

Thanks to everyone who helped us scrounge up some holiday books!

Christmas books

Anyone know of any good books about Christmas, set during Christmas-time, involving winter wonderlands etc.?  My book club needs some recommendations…

thebooksmugglers:

Insurgent, Veronica Roth’s sequel to awesome debut novel Divergent, has received a cover. Not crazy about the trippy swirly tree art, but VERY excited that Insurgent will be out May 2012! Via EW.

thebooksmugglers:

Insurgent, Veronica Roth’s sequel to awesome debut novel Divergent, has received a cover. Not crazy about the trippy swirly tree art, but VERY excited that Insurgent will be out May 2012! Via EW.

utnereader:

Andrew Carnegie built an impressive 2,509 libraries around the turn of the 20th century. Now Rick Brooks and Todd Bol are on a mission to top his total with their two-foot by two-foot Little Free Libraries.

The diminutive, birdhouse-like libraries, which Brooks and Bol began installing in Hudson and Madison, Wisconsin, in 2009, are typically made of wood and Plexiglas and are designed to hold about 20 books for community members to borrow and enjoy. Offerings include anything from Russian novels and gardening guides to French cookbooks and Dr. Seuss.

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