A few days before the shipping deadline, I received a very nice anonymous note from my gifter. He said he had just ordered me a couple of books. I love books, thus I was very happy to hear this.

Then, last Friday, a package from Amazon showed up at my door. I opened it to find two nicely gift-wrapped book-shaped objects. I promptly opened the envelope that was included in the package (yes, the big yellow one that says not to open the envelope until you've opened the gifts) and immediately saw that I'd received Flowers for Algernon and Shogun. This knowledge made the actual opening of the gifts a little anti-climactic, but I still like the books. I've never read either of them (though there is a chance I read an excerpt of Flowers for Algernon in 7th grade, but that was...um...some large but undisclosed number of years ago), and I'm excited to read them both.

Thanks, gifter!