Buying Books for Others + Our Favorite Bookish Gifts
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Books can make fantastic holiday gifts (obviously!) but knowing how to buy the right book for someone in your life can be harder than it looks. Today we’re tackling the challenge of buying books for others and sharing our best tips. And we also have a Santa-worthy list of our favorite bookish gifts. Oh, and you’re totally allowed to buy all of these things for yourself if you have no bookish person to buy for in your life. We won’t tell. ;) Highlights:Gift-giving is a love language and one of us doesn’t know how to speak it fluently How to know if Roni loves you and what she hasn’t done with her husband in fifteen years Dad books The key to the “also boughts” on Amazon When that person in your life only reads one author or one series exclusively Dawn is a fail at hiding gifts Making a book gift feel extra personal Roni can’t seem to conjugate a verb Buying for the non-readers in your life A good ebook reader’s power to reignite a reading life A drool-worthy list of bookish gifts (no, we weren’t putting stuff in our carts for ourselves as we recorded, hush.) What gift makes Roni feel like she has a little taste of the library in her office Dawn gets attacked by a fly Out of town library cards Don’t put your address in a used book or Dawn will stalk you The joy of bookmail and our favorite bookish subscriptions We have feelings about the Amazon First Reads Go for the gold type gifts Making it easier for your family and friends to buy the right gift for you Our RAD Reading Recs of the week Stay tuned for bloopers at the end  Click here to get the full show notes, including links to all of our recommendations and anything else we mentioned in the show. Find us online: RAD Reading on Instagram RAD Reading Facebook Page RAD Reading Website RAD Rec Master List Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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