DWL Lit Bites – Dec 18

Hello bibliophiles! Thirteen more days and we will be in the new year! Are you feeling the pressure to finish all the books yet? Well, while you make that list for 2016, here’s a round-up of all the links we have been loving this week.

1. I personally really enjoyed these bookish gifts from Sana at Books and Quills. She created DIY gifts around Alice in Wonderland, The Martian and His Dark Materials and this got me thinking, what other gifts can be centered around a book? A jar of lemon sherbets for the Harry Potter lover in your life? Or maybe a green booklight for a Gatsby-themed gift? How about Delicious Death, the chocolate cake used as murder weapon in Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced? Though that maybe too macabre, it might just get you through the holiday stress; the possibilities are endless.

2. Speaking of bookish holiday gifts, Buzzfeed compiled a list of all the nerdy things book lovers do to read over the holidays. I can solemnly swear I have done them all.

3. And finally, as we near the end of the year, here is Electric Literature’s round-up of the best books of 2015.