Wow. I know that a lot of folks say this, but I have truely won the Secret Santa book exchange. My Santa was so unbelievably thoughtful!

I have such bizarre tastes that I always worry I am a pain to shop for. My gifter went so above and beyond and I can tell put a lot of thought into my gifts:

I mentioned that I love good science fiction especially by women writers. Boom. Jodi Taylor’s “Just One Damned Thing After Another.” I can not wait to read this! I said that I really liked presendential biographies and had recently discovered Doris Kearns Goodwin and wanted to read more of her stuff. She gets me “Team if Rivals”!! Lovely book themed tote and page clips—who doesn’t love totes, right?!?! The last one had me in literal tears. I am sure my Santa didn’t mean to evoke this kind of response from me but, THIS...I said that my favorite author was Margaret Atwood, but I don’t think I expressed how much her writing has inspired and empowered me and just generally how much it has meant to me for many decades. My gifter discovered an Etsy artist who wraps pencils in pages from books and had her make me a set of pencils wrapped in “The Handmaid’s Tale”.

Seriously there are no words. This has really made my week, so thank you dear Santa.