SantaThingSantaThing Entry #49

LibraryThing member kalpanabook

Book tastes

Cozy mysteries, books about the history of weaving (my new hobby), science fiction and fantasy with great characterization, travel memoirs, history of music (classical in particular), historical fiction

Don't get this!

Violence, true crime, books about men behaving badly, "suburbanites being uncomfortable"

Secret Santa

kalpanabook's Secret Santa was jenniferhaskin!

Purchasing Details

Store: Kenny's Bookshop (https://www.kennys.ie)

Gift Amount: $35 (USD)

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Comments/suggestions

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ablachly: Kenny's couldn't get Women's Work (supplier thought they could provide it, but could not). I found it at Blackwell's, so you'll get a second SantaThing shipment from there! (Dec 15, 2023, 9:42am)
ablachly: ordered! (Dec 5, 2023, 11:35am)
jenniferhaskin: Also: Friends Like These by Danny Wallace, The Girl Who Walked On Air: ´The Queen of Historical Fiction at her finest.´ Guardian by Emma Carroll, and The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: Longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown 2020 for best historical fiction debut by Juliet Grames (Dec 3, 2023, 5:18am)
jenniferhaskin: Books I almost got: Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Love in Budapest by Robert Babirad, Copper Divide by Beth Kirschner, White River Red by Becky Marietta, The Earth Remains by Shelley Burchfield, Wolf Catcher by Anne Montgomery (Dec 3, 2023, 5:15am)
EerierIdyllMeme: I second Women's Work.

- Indigo by Balfour-Paul

- Deeper than Indigo by Balfour-Paul

- You might like A Piece of Justice. The mystery itself is a little thin, and it's quilting not weaving, but you might find it fun. (Nov 28, 2023, 7:17pm)
MDGentleReader: Women's work the first 20,000 years : women, cloth, and society in early times (Nov 27, 2023, 8:27pm)