Originally published on DailyKos on December 24, 2008.

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This year I am giving Mark Twain, John Grisham, Ursula K. LeGuinn, Piers Anthony, Martin Gardner, and books by many other authors.

Times change. I spent as much as $5 on some of these books. Still, some did come off my shelf.