What do book editors give for Christmas?
I'll let you in on a professional secret: Not books.
It's an inescapable hazard of the trade. Our recipients wouldjust think we were being stingy (which I am, unfortunately) andraiding our leftover review-copy cabinets for disguised freebies(which would be grossly unethical). So, in the past, I'd bestow$19.95 Itty Bitty Book Lights by the dozen, but now everybody I knowkeeps one on the nightstand.
How I wish I could give a book!
Why? A book always makes a thoughtful holiday gift, for ithonors the recipient as a civilized and thoughtful person. The bestbooks are durable; cared for, they will survive …
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