I mentioned in my likes that Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" is one of my favorite books, and that I adore J. R. R. Tolkien, and so my book Santa -- David -- has gifted me with another of Chabon's books ("Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure"), which he describes as using "a lot of the same cake-dense prose in a medieval adventure setting as Tolkien was prone to do."

It sounds like an adventure, indeed, which I cannot wait to go on, nor can I wait to see what else my match has come up with for me.

Thank you so much, David!

Update: I received a package from David today! In it was "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers, "The Children's Hospital" by Chris Adrian, a coffee mug from Powell's Books, and a letter explaining his picks. I am beyond excited right now! Dave Eggers is one of those authors I've been wanting to check out for a while now but had no idea where to begin; Chris Adrian I had never heard of before, but his book sounds like it's right up my alley. David's description of "Gentlemen of the Road" was spot-on, and if it's any indication of what's ahead of me, then I really could not have asked for a better Santa.