Holiday Gift Guide: Books

It's pretty much a given that most of us are planning (or dreading!) our Christmas lists right now. Hopefully my little gift guides will spark some imagination this season so your loved ones won't receive another candle, tie or fruitcake! I LOVE books and have numerous tomes stacked all around my house. My husband is the same way...when I met him those were the only items he owned! I poked around on some of my favorites sites and found some books that are sure to at least illicit a giggle and a smile.....xoxo

needsupply.com

The photo says it all...perfect for the pet obsessed.

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Have an art fanatic secretly obsessed with celebrities? Look no further, this book will have you guessing at the identities of 100 politicians, chefs and film stars. The answers are included but drawing their faces is up to you.

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How many of us have sent a text we wish we could take back? This book is a collection of hilarious texts between parents and their children.

anthropologie.com

Explore the philosophies of Chanel and her guide to living life on your own terms.

anthropologie.com

For the children in us all.

barnesandnoble.com

I stumbled upon these books and they have skyrocketed to the top of my Christmas list. They seem to be selling out on a few sites where I found them originally but good 'ole Barnes and Noble came to the rescue!
I've included a brief summary from their website about them. This one is sure to be an interesting read!

Occasionally a book is published that reveals a subculture you never dreamt existed. More rarely, that book goes on to become a phenomenon of its own. The 2004 publication of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia was such a phenomenon, spawning two further volumes and alerting a fascinated readership worldwide to the extraordinary and hermetic world of Russian criminal tattoos (David Cronenberg, for example, made regular use of the Encyclopaediaduring the making of his 2007 movie Eastern Promises). Now, Fuel has reprinted volume one of this bestselling series, whose first edition already fetches considerable sums online. The photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3,000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by a prison attendant named Danzig Baldaev. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just strange, reflecting as they do the lives and traditions of Russian convicts. Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone, medieval knights in armor, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks and a horned Lenin: these are the signs by which the people of this hidden world mark and identify themselves. With a foreword by Danzig Baldaev, and an introduction by Alexei Plutser-Sarno, exploring the symbolism of the Russian criminal tattoo.