Posted in Sunday Salon, top of the stack on February 24, 2008 | 14 Comments »
I fear the Sunday Salon is running a bit late today. I’ve been in a rather domestic mood all morning (something that happens only rarely these days), busy pottering in the kitchen making brunch for us. When the Mushroom-Asparagus quiche comes out of the oven, perhaps your first bite with make up for my late [...]
Posted in top of the stack on February 23, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Take four women, one Italian castle, plenty of sunshine and wisteria blossoms, add in a month’s holiday, and stir…
Pure enchantment.
A splendid book for reading in the midst of a dreary midwestern winter, and the perfect antidote to middle aged emotional doldrums, The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim, brought a smile to my face with every [...]
Posted in book love, booking through thursday on February 21, 2008 | 12 Comments »
This week’s question at Booking Through Thursday:
All other things (like price and storage space) being equal, given a choice in a perfect world, would you rather have paperbacks in your library? Or hardcovers? And why?
At the risk of being considered shallow in my love of books, I confess the tactile element of bookish-ness is very [...]
Posted in book love on February 18, 2008 | 21 Comments »
“i’d love to read (fill in the book title)…could i borrow it when you’re finished?”
hmm.
that depends.
will you be taking the book on your cruise to the bahamas?
will you be moving to Australia between now and the time you get around to reading it?
will you in turn loan it to “just this one good friend who [...]
Posted in Giveaways, Sunday Salon, short story challenge on February 17, 2008 | 20 Comments »
How lovely of you to meet me here at First Cup, my favorite local coffee house. It seems we have the place to ourselves this morning - those sheets of freezing rain pouring from the sky must have kept everyone at home. Everyone except Amy, my favorite barista (who was thrilled to have The Sunday Salon gather here) - and you of [...]
Posted in book love on February 15, 2008 | 8 Comments »
no, silly, not that first time (blushes)…the first time i went to the library! after all, it is library lovers month, you know.
oh - you didn’t know? well, go here to read more about it.
now, back to my first time at the library. picture me, a tiny three year old holding tightly to my mother’s hand, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
the ravenous reader has been tagged…Gautami asks me to consider some questions about my non-fiction reading preferences…
(a)What issues/topic interests you most–non-fiction, i.e, cooking, knitting, stitching, thereare infinite topics that has nothing to do with novels?
b). Would you like to review books concerning those?
c). Would you like to be paid or do it as interest or hobby? Tell reasons [...]
Posted in booking through thursday on February 14, 2008 | 12 Comments »
this week’s thought to ponder at booking through thursday…
Have you ever fallen out of love with a favorite author? Was the last book you read by the author so bad, you broke up with them and haven’t read their work since? Could they ever lure you back?
alas, i have become disenchanted with two of my [...]
Posted in top of the stack on February 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I managed to read one book while I was away last week, a frothy little mystery that proved quite entertaining. On What Grounds, set in the Village Blend, a historic coffeehouse in Greenich Village, pits barista Clare Cosi against an evil intruder who attacks her young assistant and has the gall to leave no clues behind, leading the [...]
Posted in Sunday Salon on February 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »
good morning! did you hear that howling winter wind sweeping around the house today? quite a shock to my system, i must say, after spending the past week in southern florida where daily temperatures were at least 80 degrees. but no matter~my house is warm and the puppies are happily curled up beside me. come in out [...]
