I am geeking out a little bit about my gift. First, there is The Most Dangerous Game, the latest from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. It is only by shear luck that I haven't already purchased it for myself. I have Zach Weiner's earlier book and follow everything that he does pretty religiously, but hadn't got this yet. Very awesome.

Then there's "Meanwhile" by Jason Shiga. When I got it, I was admiring the cover and I noticed that the art seemed oddly familiar. And then it struck me, my friend had given me a book a few months ago called Bookhunter and the characters were drawn remarkably similar. I went and found the book and sure enough, it was by the same artist. So here my gifter gave me this sweet book by an artist that made another book that I love, but I had never heard of it before. And then, to top it off, it's a fantastically conceived choose your own adventure unlike I've seen in any graphic form. To pick a path, you follow a pipe which connects to other pages through an ingenious system of page tabs. And the introduction implies that there are secret codes in the story that will point to hidden pages? I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to read this.

Plus I got a mini Nerf gun. That's pretty cool. One can always use more Nerf. Sorry, my enthusiasm for this is pretty tempered by how much I love the books. Because the books are truly awesome. Great job, Santa!

Edit: Woah. Took the Nerf gun to work where me and a bunch of coworkers have big powerful Nerf gun fights. We found out that this little "tiny cricket" pistol that fits in the palm of your hand is like a super-charged killing machine. It fires faster and further than many of our assault rifle guns. This gift is going to win me some major upcoming battles. Nice pick, giftee.