By Mary Helen Sheriff
Literary Care Packages
…the gift of story for special occasions
Exhausted by the endless cycle of gift-giving? Love to gift books but overwhelmed by the library of choices?
Literary Care Packages…the Gift of Story for Special Occasions is your solution.
Thank you, retirement, new job, baby, wedding, sympathy, and more, this e-guide has you covered with book suggestions and book-specific themed items you can bundle together for a truly spectacular gift.
As an entrepreneur, teacher, and mother, I am thrilled to have this guide. I was struggling to find something for a friend going through a difficult time. Mary’s guide helped me to put together an elegant and meaningful gift. I plan to use this moving forward as the suggestions create deeper messages and meaning for specific gift occasions. The added bonus is the time it saves. Thank you!”
– Andrea Fry, Movement For Miracles
Newsletter Archives
…the gift of story
A Literary Care Package for Dad
Looking for the perfect gift for a dad this holiday season? Check out this literary care package which features Dad by Steven Manchester. This novel will warm the heart of any man who has played the role of father. It follows three generations of the Earle family as...
A Literary Care Package for Scotophiles
Got a friend who loves all things Scottish? Then I have a few gift ideas for you. The first is The River Maiden by Meredith R. Stoddard. What a page-turner! Sarah MacAlpin was raised by her Scottish grandmother deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a little girl she...
A Literary Care Package for Southern Mamas
Attention fans of Boop and Eve's Road Trip....you will LOVE Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon which is basically a primer for Southern womanhood. This makes a perfect Mother's Day gift for southern mamas and wanna-be southern mamas. The book itself is full of...
A Literary Care Package for Teachers
Need a gift for Teacher Appreciation Week (May 3-May 7)? The book Freedom Lessons paired with the items below are just the ticket. "Based on the author's experience teaching in Louisiana in the late sixties, this heartfelt, unflinching novel about the unexpected...
A Literary Care Package for Moms During Covid
What happens when a top-notch book podcaster gathers 50+ of her author guests to write essays about motherhood during quarantine? In short, Moms Don't Have Time To: A quarantine anthology, edited by Zibby Owens. If you've been a frequent follower of this blog you...
A Literary Care Package for Working Women
The Exit Strategy is the perfect gift for working women. Set in Silicon Valley, this page-turning novel centers around two women in love with the same man and both struggling with the challenges of working in male-dominated industries. Traditional story-telling would...
A Literary Care Package for Recovering Perfectionists
The Lazy Genius Way is the perfect gift for the recovering perfectionist on your list, who inists that 2021 is going to be different. Most books about time management and productivity center around career demands. This book focuses around time management and...
A Literary Care Package for Your Politically Engaged Friends
Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers are the hosts of the podcast Pantsuit Politic, which was featured in the blog post 5 Life-changing Podcasts with Bookish Friends. On their podcast, Silvers and Holland don't share the same political ideology but practice the art...
A Literary Care Package for College Students, Grandmas, and the Women Who Love Them
I could not be more excited to present my own book for this month's literary care package. Boop and Eve's Road Trip follows college freshman Eve Prince and her grandma Boop on a road trip in search of a missing relative. Their journey through the heart of Dixie is an...
A Literary Care Package for Your Friends in Book Club
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix embraces both the humor and the thrill found in many horror movies. The novel is set in an affluent Charleston neighborhood and centers around a book club obsessed with reading macabre books....
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