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LibraryThing member brandilgrosso

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Gift is for: Daughter

Book tastes

Pretty copies (gilded pages, etc)
I know she had enjoyed:
Poe stories
Little Women
Jeanette McCurdy
Rainbow Rowell

Other notes

She is a HS Senior/dual degree for bio science. Wants to be a vet. Studies animal anatomy.
Recently plant-based and loves chocolate.
Would love a special copy of a Poe Anthology.

Secret Santa

brandilgrosso's Secret Santa was buckeywe74!

Purchasing Details

Store: Powell's (http://www.powells.com)

Gift Amount: $45 (USD)

Comments/suggestions

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katemcangus: checked and ordered (Dec 7, 2023, 2:21pm)
buckeywe74: I hope these choices will be alright for her. (Nov 29, 2023, 10:11am)
saroz: Actually - there is already an Annotated Poe, from Harvard University Press. It seems to be well-reviewed, but I can't tell how it looks on the inside. The new one I mentioned will be part of Norton's Annotated line, which is intended for mainstream readers, not academics.

Actually, on that note, she might really like Norton's Annotated Little Women - it's enormous (700 pp), affordable, and very attractive, with all the notes and background material written by a prize-winning Alcott biographer. (There are also other excellent Victorian-era books in the line: The Annotated Alice, Annotated Wizard of Oz, Annotated Peter Pan, etc, all with lots of pictures and beautifully designed.) (Nov 28, 2023, 9:21am)
saroz: The Annotated Edgar Allen Poe is coming out in a year (I know the author) and she might want to wait for that, as it will be pretty special.

It's not a great time for "pretty" books unless you go with a specialty publisher like Folio, which is expensive. If she likes Little Women, though, it might be worth finding her a hardbound copy of a book like Middlemarch or the poems of Christina Rossetti. There are gorgeous hardbound copies of books from that era like Ozma of Oz, Anne of Green Gables, etc. (really anything published by Books of Wonder), that have active female leads - but those are really mid-grade novels and she might be at an age that wouldn't welcome "kids' books."

As a fun filler, she might really like a paperback copy of James Herriot's "All Creatures Great and Small" (or one of his other books about being a vet). Those are still very funny and sweet. (Nov 28, 2023, 9:14am)