Have you recieved any books as presents for Christmas - or any other reason just lately? If so, tell us about them.

I got a bunch of cookbooks for Christmas!

I love collecting cookbooks. With current phone technology I even collect cookbooks in other languages and translate them into English using Google Translate and stuff.

Whenever people go to other countries, that's usually what I ask to bring back; a local cookbook in the native language of the region.

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Great stuff, a little surprisingly imperfect in some of the non-sci-fi (pure writing) aspects, but absolutely great as far as the hard sci-fi aspects and it's a more or less instantaneous read. I got it at the bookstore this weekend for myself while Christmas shopping, finished the whole thing by Christmas, and then gave it to someone who I'd forgotten to get a gift for.
• Prequel by Rachel Maddow. Great stuff like always.
• The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert Reich. I haven't started it but I love his stuff on Twitter and the person who gave it to me swears it's good.

I bought my husband the Nick Cave and Séan O'Hagan book Faith, Hope and Carnage. I hope he likes it.

I've been rereading via Cloudlibrary the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro mystery series by Dennis Lehane. They're a bit dated but still really dark and gritty and good.

I bought my son 5 different Batman books and we have been reading them together. Lots of fun. I also finally bought Completely Mad (a history of Mad magazine) after wanting to read it for several years so that is on its way.

I got the Hobbit in Latin. I don't know latin and have never had any desire to learn it...until now.

I got Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Not something I would have picked up for myself, but I'm finding some interesting nuggets of information within