Usually I don't care if relevant, I just shove Books I Enjoyed This Year at people who say 'I want a book' on the grounds that that way at least an author whose work I like gets money.
Unfortunately this year that has been mostly either spy fiction (which I know is not her thing) or Tolkien re-reads (she likes LOTR but that's hardly a new thing, and after some agonising I decided Beren & Luthien was not really complete enough to give to someone who isn't invested in the Silmarillion...)
Thankfully the Crime Review website Louise mentioned above seems to have several things that look like they might appeal (and at least don't feature muscled torsoes or amber hair*), so I have just thrown them at her head across the Atlantic, along with PC Peter Grant. She may not like them, but she might.
*Canadian Amazon seems to weight torsoes and hair more heavily than UK Amazon, at least based on the results I got by random browsing. I am reminded of the 'why are all these mugs so RUDE' quest** of a couple of years ago.
**I think the decorous mugs I finally found - possibly the only decorous mugs in Canada - have probably vanished into the abyss, as since then she has moved to Gibraltar, Devon and back to the other side of Canada again in the interim. And yet she still wants books! I suppose you can always give them away when you move.
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Date: 2017-12-13 09:50 pm (UTC)Unfortunately this year that has been mostly either spy fiction (which I know is not her thing) or Tolkien re-reads (she likes LOTR but that's hardly a new thing, and after some agonising I decided Beren & Luthien was not really complete enough to give to someone who isn't invested in the Silmarillion...)
Thankfully the Crime Review website Louise mentioned above seems to have several things that look like they might appeal (and at least don't feature muscled torsoes or amber hair*), so I have just thrown them at her head across the Atlantic, along with PC Peter Grant. She may not like them, but she might.
*Canadian Amazon seems to weight torsoes and hair more heavily than UK Amazon, at least based on the results I got by random browsing. I am reminded of the 'why are all these mugs so RUDE' quest** of a couple of years ago.
**I think the decorous mugs I finally found - possibly the only decorous mugs in Canada - have probably vanished into the abyss, as since then she has moved to Gibraltar, Devon and back to the other side of Canada again in the interim. And yet she still wants books! I suppose you can always give them away when you move.