Consider your Christmas shopping when watching the (fake) commercial below. (Thanks, Brian, via Alyssa Milano via Brainpicker.)

Or maybe just order one of these for yourself or a literate loved one:

Jane Austen
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare

 

dooce.com popped up on my reader, and Heather Armstrong has been listing some pretty great gift ideas for the holidays. She suggests the following t-shirt, which, when I read it, made me laugh out loud:

Clever. And of course the haiku makes perfect sense. $10 seems pretty sensible, too.

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