You WANT these books!
Dec. 15th, 2010 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightcastleThe man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
--Mark Twain
As the happy yuletide season of gift-giving steals upon us, the thoughts of many of us turn to books - those fine constructions of human intellect and thought that delight and challenge us from when we first discover the joys of deciphering written language to our final journeys from this mortal coil.
Smart people give books to their friends and loved ones. Kind people. Passionate people. People who are deeply full of awesome. People like you.
In case you haven't noticed, I'm pitching.
What books would make me pitch like this? What would possibly reduce me to shameless, fawning shill?
Brotherly love, of course.
BUY MY SISTER'S BOOKS!!!
Books about girls who are boyproof. Books about punk rock! Books about geeks! Books about vampires! Books about guerrilla art! Books about ballerinas! Books about grandmas!
THERE IS NO END TO THE AWESOME!!
Do you know someone who like any of these things? Then you know someone who you should buy these books for. You can send them books through the magic of something called the postal service. You can wrap them in paper? You might bury them under a tree. Perhaps you will fling the books at passersby in an ecstatic ritual of knowledge sharing and spontaneous joy-bringing. I do not judge.
(Unless you purchase no books, in which case I judge you harshly and without forgiveness, as I am a jealous Old-testament style god about such things.)
On a less hyperbolic note, these books are fantastic - especially for the Young Adult audience they are mostly aimed at. Geektastic and Grandma's Gloves fall outside that range.
--Mark Twain
As the happy yuletide season of gift-giving steals upon us, the thoughts of many of us turn to books - those fine constructions of human intellect and thought that delight and challenge us from when we first discover the joys of deciphering written language to our final journeys from this mortal coil.
Smart people give books to their friends and loved ones. Kind people. Passionate people. People who are deeply full of awesome. People like you.
In case you haven't noticed, I'm pitching.
What books would make me pitch like this? What would possibly reduce me to shameless, fawning shill?
Brotherly love, of course.
BUY MY SISTER'S BOOKS!!!
Books about girls who are boyproof. Books about punk rock! Books about geeks! Books about vampires! Books about guerrilla art! Books about ballerinas! Books about grandmas!
THERE IS NO END TO THE AWESOME!!
Do you know someone who like any of these things? Then you know someone who you should buy these books for. You can send them books through the magic of something called the postal service. You can wrap them in paper? You might bury them under a tree. Perhaps you will fling the books at passersby in an ecstatic ritual of knowledge sharing and spontaneous joy-bringing. I do not judge.
(Unless you purchase no books, in which case I judge you harshly and without forgiveness, as I am a jealous Old-testament style god about such things.)
On a less hyperbolic note, these books are fantastic - especially for the Young Adult audience they are mostly aimed at. Geektastic and Grandma's Gloves fall outside that range.
