Sunday Salon: Literary Spoils

My Christmas was lovely and bookish this year.  Not only did I get a wonderful book related gifts from my Secret Santa:

but I also received a variety of bookish presents from my mother and grandmother:

In the above photo we have the following items:

1. britten and brulightly - This graphic novel first came to my attention on Nonsuch books here and quickly made it to my wishlist.
2. The Complete Maus - While I'd heard of this graphic novel(s) before, when Trish reviewed it here, it moved up my to buy list.
3. The Annotated Lolita - I've had Reading Lolita in Tehran on my shelves for some time, but I refused to read it until I had read Lolita.  I have no excuse now.
4. Three Pulp Fiction covers - These three large postcards are actually the covers of old pulp fiction books my mom found at Art.com.  I just adore the way women are portrayed in these: Girls out of Hell, How Cheap Can You Get?, and I Prefer Girls.
5.  5 Book Plates - These gorgeous bookplates are from Jennifer Gordon at Etsy.  I was first introduced to her through Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings, and I love her work.
6. Bookmark - My mom bought me a stainless steel bookmark and had READ engraved on it.  The top of the bookmark has a place to put a picture.
7. Giftcard - Yay for the $20 giftcard from my in-laws! Gotta love it.

I'm very excited to dig in to my new gifts, but first I have a list of other bloggish-bookish things to do:

1.  Finish Age of Innocence and write up my Ethan From/Age of Innocence blog post for the Classics Circuit.
2.  Write my end of year reading report, top books read, and challenge updates.
3.  Finalize and publish my Las Vegas post.

But first I have to sleep!  No sleep in Vegas, no sleep over Christmas, and I am too old to go so long without a solid nine hours of beddy-bye time.  And of course I have to enjoy all the other wonderful gifts I got:

Oh, and I should probably prepare for my next semester classes too.....hmmm....maybe I should stop typing now.