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I’m quickly dropping by on my lunch hour to reveal what I got for my Persephone Secret Santa this year. Last year I received my first ever Persephone books from Thomas at My Porch – ‘The Hopkins Manuscript’ which I read this year and ‘Miss Buncle’s Book’ which I might read next year as Claire and Verity are again planning to host a Persephone reading week.
Who would be buying for me this year and which Persephone would they choose?
I meant to take a picture of the book on my phone and download it at work, but looking through the gallery it seems that I took pictures of all my SS gifts except for the Persephone. So instead I’ll have to show you the special Persephone endpaper of this book:
Have you guessed it yet Persephone lovers? Yes, I got Dorothy Whipple’s ‘Someone at Distance’. My first Whipple is cause for lots of excitement, as she’s the author I always feel is most associated with Persephone and the one everyone seems to have a great time with. Also the description of this book says Whipple wrote in the Midlands – why that is where I’m from!
And who was my Santa this year? It was Iris at Iris on Books. I love getting gifts from all my Secret Santas and sending presents out to bloggers I’ve never yet met in the ‘sphere, but isn’t it lovely when these exchanges bring a postal connection with someone you’ve been talking to on the blogs and Twitter. I’m so happy to have met Iris this year and to have spent time chatting about tv and books with her, so to get a little Persephone package she’d picked out for me was really special. Thanks so much Iris. I just hope the gift I sent out arrived on time, as Claire says the snow has delayed some of the packages. I want someone else to be all happy looking at shiny grey covers.
Big thanks to Claire for running this swap again. You can see her extensive wrap up post here, which I think is mega considering that she is having major Virgin internet troubles.
Who would be buying for me this year and which Persephone would they choose?
I meant to take a picture of the book on my phone and download it at work, but looking through the gallery it seems that I took pictures of all my SS gifts except for the Persephone. So instead I’ll have to show you the special Persephone endpaper of this book:
Have you guessed it yet Persephone lovers? Yes, I got Dorothy Whipple’s ‘Someone at Distance’. My first Whipple is cause for lots of excitement, as she’s the author I always feel is most associated with Persephone and the one everyone seems to have a great time with. Also the description of this book says Whipple wrote in the Midlands – why that is where I’m from!
And who was my Santa this year? It was Iris at Iris on Books. I love getting gifts from all my Secret Santas and sending presents out to bloggers I’ve never yet met in the ‘sphere, but isn’t it lovely when these exchanges bring a postal connection with someone you’ve been talking to on the blogs and Twitter. I’m so happy to have met Iris this year and to have spent time chatting about tv and books with her, so to get a little Persephone package she’d picked out for me was really special. Thanks so much Iris. I just hope the gift I sent out arrived on time, as Claire says the snow has delayed some of the packages. I want someone else to be all happy looking at shiny grey covers.
Big thanks to Claire for running this swap again. You can see her extensive wrap up post here, which I think is mega considering that she is having major Virgin internet troubles.