Past, Present, Future

It’s been a good year for reading, hasn’t it? Of course, most every year is a good reading year for this ravenous reader.  In perusing my Bookstack for 2008, I smile fondly in recollection of these, my favorite reads of the past 12 months…
Unexpected Delight: Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri:  I [...]

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The Sunday Salon – A Place for Everyone

 
Though I’d like to say my Sunday Salon post is late because I’ve been so busy reading, I’m afraid I’m unable to do so.  Actually, the day has been spent as many Sunday’s here are – in church for the morning, at brunch with friends, then errands and visits to elderly relatives in the afternoon. 
There [...]

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And So This Was Christmas

This morning I scribbled some words about Christmas over at my other blog…with the lyrics of an old Beatles tune looping in my head and a bright, shiny Christmas day before me, I was at peace with the December demons.  Now it’s  bedtime, and Christmas is over for another year. It was a quiet day ~ which [...]

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Much Ado About Shakespeare

A Shakespearean-meme.   Wonder what the bard would say?   Whatever – I’ll play along   Thanks for the tag, Gautami!
What was your first introduction to William Shakespeare?  Was it love or hate?
Ninth grade honors English, Mrs. Virginia Walz, teacher - tough teacher, but extrordinary.   It was tradition for that class to read Romeo and Juliet  aloud [...]

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The Sunday Salon – Happy All The Time

Well, not exactly.  How much happiness can one really have when the wind sounds as if a freight train is barrelling right for your living room window, whipping sheets of icy snow off drifts already 10 feet high and whirling them in a vortex of blinding white?  How happy can one truly be when the prospect [...]

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Reading Matter

Having recently posted about gifting books and traveling with books and making time for books, I realize I haven’t posted about actually reading any books.  So what have I been reading lately?
I finished Revolutionary Road (by Richard Yates) today, hot on the heels of Goldengrove (by Francine Prose), and it occurred to me that my choice [...]

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Booking Through Thursday (Friday)~Gifting Books

Do you give books as gifts?  To everyone? Or only to select people?  How do you feel about receiving books as gifts?
What is the best book you ever bought for yourself?  And, why? What made it the best? What made it so special?
As I spent the entirety of Thursday in a mad dash to get [...]

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Musing Monday-Books on the Go

I always like to have a book with me at all times –- call it a nerdy grown-up security blanket –- and rarely do I leave the house without slipping one into my bag (even if I KNOW I’m not going to have a chance to read it). Do you take a book with you? [...]

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Booking Through Thursday – Reading Time

And there never seems to be enough time, to do the things you want, once you find them…Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce
Remember that song?  When my husband and I were teenagers in the throes of first love, it was our theme song.  We always felt cheated by time, as if it was conspiring to keep [...]

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Musing Monday

How long do you wait after finishing a book before you pick/start another one? How many books do you have planned ahead or do you pick up random books from your tbr pile (if you have one)? Do you review right away or keep reading and come back to it later?
Like most ravenous readers, I [...]

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