{"id":71939,"date":"2022-12-02T00:39:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T05:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=71939"},"modified":"2022-12-02T10:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T15:25:22","slug":"gift-books-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2022\/12\/02\/gift-books-for-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Books for the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gorey-holiday.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gorey-holiday.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gorey-holiday.webp 1050w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gorey-holiday-1024x721.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gorey-holiday-150x106.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gorey-holiday-768x541.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the importance of art in everyday life:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can\u2019t explain. I don\u2019t need to. I know that if there\u2019s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I\u2019m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.&#8221; \u2014Maurice Sendak from a 2004 <a href=\"https:\/\/billmoyers.com\/content\/bill-moyers-talks-maurice-sendak\/\">interview with Bill Moyers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below are links to some of our catalogs listed on our affiliate page on Bookshop.org. Browse a complete list of 150+ book catalogs at <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/shop\/bookbeat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bookshop.org\/Bookbeat<\/a>. If you live locally most books are available instore or can be ordered within a few days. Call us at <strong>248-968-1190<\/strong> or stop by <strong>Mon-Sat 10 am &#8211; 6 pm or Sunday 12-5 pm<\/strong>. Visit our online catalog of signed, rare, and unusual books at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/\">The Book Beat Gallery<\/a>. Happy Book Shopping!<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"whimsical-magical-picture-books\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"best-of-art-photography-2022\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"december-2022-indie-next-recommendations\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"gifts-of-inspiration-and-kindness\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"miniature-books-tiny-treasures\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"beautiful-children-s-picture-books\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>              <script\n              src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n              data-type=\"list\" \n              data-list-slug=\"paper-calendars-2023-do-it-better\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"cooking-drinking-and-writing-about-food\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"tiny-treasures-for-little-hands\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"outer-spacey-picture-books-fiction-and-non-fiction\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"strange-desires-cult-classics\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>              <script\n              src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n              data-type=\"list\" \n              data-list-slug=\"book-beat-bestsellers-now-and-then\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>              <script\n              src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n              data-type=\"list\" \n              data-list-slug=\"the-detroit-beat-read-local\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>              <script\n              src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n              data-type=\"list\" \n              data-list-slug=\"the-marvelous-land-of-oz\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>              <script\n              src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n              data-type=\"list\" \n              data-list-slug=\"enduring-classics-boxed-sets\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>              <script\n              src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n              data-type=\"list\" \n              data-list-slug=\"the-edward-gorey-fan-club\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>              <script\n              src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n              data-type=\"list\" \n              data-list-slug=\"ultimate-gift-books\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the importance of art in everyday life: &ldquo;Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can&rsquo;t explain. I don&rsquo;t need to. I know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookbeat-shop-history","category-coollinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}