I feel humbled, and honored, by the amount of attention my match put in reading my "likes and dislikes". Fantasy and Historical Novels are my favorite genres, and he went compared books I've liked with the books he gave me. Books, yes, plural: I received 2 books :D !!

"Aztec" and "Tlacaelel" are among my favorites for Historical Novels, so he chose "The Covenant". For which I've read amazing reviews in the internet and by a South African friend. This is going to be great!

As a LOTR and ASOIAF fan, what I've quickly read about "The Belgariad" (aka Wikipedia headers, without content, to avoid spoilers :P ) really sounds like I won't have too much sleep for quite a while n_n .

Even more: my original preference was to receive them either in paper or electronic. But my match really wanted to give a super present so he asked the format, and delivered based on it! Which by the way caused an interesting discussion with my Facebook friends. The typical "paper vs electronic format", with the twist of having an idea of it to be a 1000+ pages book(s).

Taylor: I'm so happy and eager to start reading these books. As you may know by what I wrote in my exchange profile, books are super important to me. Many of them have marked my life in many many ways. You were spot on, at so many levels, with your choices. From the bottom of my heart I hope you get excellent gifts as well!