In 2009 a user on the website Reddit decided to do a secret santa. Last Christmas 212483 people took part in the 2014 exchange. Alongside the big Christmas Secret Santa, redditgifts , the website they now use to host the exchanges, also do themed exchanges throughout the year. I've taken part in number of these over the last two years, videos of me unwrapping some of them can be found on my YouTube channel.
The latest of these has been the book exchange. As you can see from my video I got a great selection but the part I enjoyed the most was picking out books for my person. She told me she likes sci-fi/dystopian books and put the hunger games down as her favourite book. With this in mind I went to Waterstones picked up a copy of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel as I'd enjoyed it so much myself a few weeks before hand. I also got another book that I've now forgotten the name of but the guy in the store recommended it to me and I thought why the hell not. Then I went down to Dulwich Books and enlisted Chloe's help in picking out 3 more. Dark Star by Olivier Longmead, a noir sci-fi written in epic verse, The Girl With All The Gifts by M. J. Carey a novel about zombie children and Red Rising by Pierce Brown, that Chloe described as the Hunger Games but better and with more death. All in all I think I did pretty well. It's great fun trying to put together a parcel for a stranger based purely on a few paragraphs they've written.
If you fancy taking part in a reddit exchange have a look here and see which ones are running at the moment: www.redditgifts.com







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