This week's Booking Through Thursday question is actually inspired by Buy a Friend a Book Week. If you don't know anything about Buy a Friend a Book Week definitely check out the program's website (or read about it in this post).Anyway, here's the question:
What book would you choose to give to a friend and why?
The easiest thing for me to answer this question would be to link to my BAFABW posts from last year, but I will behave myself and actually write out an answer here.
It seems to me that I have two different ways of gifting books. I'll either send something from a person's wishlist (but 9 times out of 10 it'll be a book that I think I'd also like reading) or I'll pick out something I think they'll like (I really only do this with children and people I know relatively well). Someone like a brother-in-law would get a book following the first method. Someone like my mom would get a book following the second method. And, when I'm gifting books to someone like my dad, I'll do a bit of both.
After posting this, something else occurred to me so I'm jumping in here again. Sometimes I'll like a book so much that I'll pick up multiple copies and gift them to everyone that I think might remotely like it. Most recently I've done this with Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu.
I usually go for the wishlist but with close friends I go for my choices too.
ReplyDeleteI did the multiple copies a few years ago of Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom to give to my family for Christmas.
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I had to gift the cheetah photo book "How It Was with Dooms" to so many of my friends, much in the way of the last book you mentioned. But otherwise, yeah, it very much depends on the person. Amazon gift cards are so handy for such difficulties!
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