We’re off to Baja Sur for Christmas in a week, and while the only resemblance my parents place outside of La Paz has with any piece of Wilmington NC real estate is proximity to the ocean, I’m still in the mood to read a bunch of Anne Rivers Siddons novels before I get there, because her descriptions of the Carolina coastal lifestyle is very much my dream life: small towns, great books, a beach a short walk away, excellent coffee, good friends - these are my version of bliss.

I don’t have TIME to read any beach books just now, though, and once I get there, Christmas will drive all chances of reading away, anyway. But I do have a book sent to me by the author for review that I’m planning to read on the plane, and I’m carting along a bunch of books to leave with my mother and to be given as gifts to the daughters of one of her friends, a woman from India who wants her daughters to read, “English language novels with strong female role models.” I’m bringing them Little Women, Anne of Green Gables and The Secret Garden. I think they’ll enjoy all three.

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  By aisling, Wednesday: 12 December 2007 @ 11:22 am

  Those are great books ! I actually have all three in my bookshelf I think. No, I may have Anne Of Avonlea (sp?) not green gables. I’m not even sure. I just know I grab up these books at half price so they are readily available for my children as they get older :) The Little House set too.
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  By Becca, Wednesday: 12 December 2007 @ 7:45 pm

  I’m drawn to the Carolina coastal lifestyle as well, even though I’ve never been there. I live vicariously through Siddons books :)

  Good choices for book gifts.
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  By CJHill, Thursday: 13 December 2007 @ 11:59 am

  Great choices. Enjoy your trip and Christmas. I must admit, however, that Christmas at Big Sur would seem exceedingly strange to me, coming from the great white North as I do. We didn’t have snow last year and it didn’t feel like Christmas!

  cjh

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