At times, friends and relatives can be hard
to buy for. Some seem to have everything. Due to age or illness, others
may be less mobile than in years past. Some
don’t really want much. Families scatter across this huge country and selecting
a gift, packaging, and shipping can be a chore.
A book, however, is always a great gift …
especially if you take the time to match their taste in fiction or nonfiction special interest. Suddenly, your thoughtfulness becomes part of the gift.
Whether your relatives or friends are interested in the Civil War, literature, romance
novels, Westerns, paranormal fiction, railroads, guns, cooking, collecting old
comic books, antique automobiles, or anything else, there's always a book that
will bring a smile to their face.
Books are the best entertainment value.
They provide hour after hour of personal pleasure, and then they can be passed
on to another person. When I give a book as a gift, I write a personal note
inside that won't get tossed out like last year's Christmas card.
Children's books are great gifts. We search
for autographed storybooks for our grandkids. Local bookstores always have
children book promotions around the holidays, and this is one area where we actually
like to join the crowd. A great find is when the author and the illustrator
both sign the book. We've done this for several years, so now our grandkids'
bedrooms have dedicated shelves for signed books. The icing on the cake is we get
to read them a story from one of these books whenever we visit.
Here are Amazon links to bestselling books
in a few categories. There are many more categories a click away, but you can
also search for books on a specific subject.
If you have a Western enthusiast in the
family, giving one or more of these books can bring a smile to their face … mine
as well.
