Flowers – they’re everywhere, in glorious profusion…the thought of them distracts me when I’m driving, when I’m walking, and when I’m shopping, pulling my eye away from the mundane fruits and vegetables to the burgeoning blossoms in the garden center attached to my favorite market.
I have two new garden areas at my house, one started [...]
Archive for May, 2009
The Sunday Salon -Blooming
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Vaguely Familiar
Posted in bookish on May 29, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday was my ritual trip to Barnes and Noble – I always make it a point to visit the mega store here in Naples because it’s the one time I have lots of room to browse and see what’s new and exciting. I confess – I carry a little notebook in my purse to jot [...]
Who Is That Author?
Posted in bookish on May 29, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Or should the title of this post be, What is Emma Thompson Reading?
I just finished watching the film Last Chance Harvey, which was a rather delightful chick-flick with two of my all time favorite actors. Emma (or at any rate, her character Kate Walker) is seen reading this book during several different scenes in the [...]
Booking Through Thursday – Unread
Posted in booking through thursday on May 28, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Is there a book that you wish you could “unread”? One that you disliked so thoroughly you wish you could just forget that you ever read it?
The nightmares came in cycles, most often during my own time of the month, in some strange synchrony with the protagnoist’s performance of her official duties as a “handmaiden” [...]
All in the Family
Posted in book love on May 27, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Last night was a first in our family…the four of us (husband, son, daughter in law, and me, the ravenous reader) sat around after dinner discussing the books we’d been reading.
My son has always been quite a reader, but my husband and daughter in law have only recently come to enjoy reading as a regular [...]
Interior Dialogues
Posted in book love on May 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I’ve been having this conversation with myself lately, an interior dialogue that usually ensues each morning on my way to work. It goes something like this…
“If only I could stay home today and (a) write (b) go for a walk (c) play the piano (d) read…anything besides being stuck at a desk all day. I feel [...]
Booking Through Thursday – Like New Again
Posted in booking through thursday on May 22, 2009 | 9 Comments »
What book would you love to be able to read again for the first time?
I was so young the first time – too young really – for I couldn’t quite process the cascading emotions flooding my heart and soul. So many sensations compacted in those few hours together – nervous excitement, eager anticipation, utter satisfaction. It was [...]
The Sunday Salon – Love Letters
Posted in Sunday Salon on May 17, 2009 | 13 Comments »
My Dear Friend,
Don’t you just love it when a book sets fireworks exploding in your imagination? When every page brings an interesting thought or a new insight? When you want to climb right into the story and have tea with the characters?
That has been my happy experience this week, as I’ve been reading Afternoons With Emily. Rose [...]
Bookstack Bounty
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Today’s mail brought a bounty of books, courtesy of Claire and her wonderful giveaway in honor of National Poetry Month (sponsored by Hachette Books). I rarely win anything, much less such a wonderful bookstack, so I was thrilled beyond measure.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson is particularly appropriate, considering my current read is Afternoons With [...]
My Life Flows On
Posted in book love on May 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In the village of Blaszka, as in every other place, even in fairy tales, there was an oldest son, and a youngest son, a rich sister and a poor sister, the clever, the wise, the wicked and naive, a constellation of people, seemingly motionless, a river of stars in the midnight sky. But go closer [...]
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