June 19, 2006
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Book Talk
Update on Summer Reading Challenge:
Temperament I’m on the last chapter. This is the most challenging book I’ve read in a while. When I’m finished I’ll write a short review.
1776 Excellent book. I’m glad I read it .
Every Living Thing Halfway through, and I’ve enjoyed every page.
84, Charing Cross Road and The Legacy of Q by Helene Hanff These weren’t on my original list but, oh my!, these books are like savoring rich spoonfuls of homemade ice cream to a bibliophile. I do love English literature. I do dream about taking a literary tour of England. Someday…
Imitation of Christ Good, slow reading.
This picture is for Janie: she asked us to take of picture of a stack of books because she enjoys enlarging them and looking at them. I’m the same way. I’ve taken a magnifying glass to a picture of an author in front of books and peeked at his/her collection. When I met a new pastor in town I exlaimed “you have Owen on your shelf!” (which I gleaned from said magnifying glass and a newspaper article.)
This shelf is near our entry. It is a sort of “holding tank” for books. The bottom shelf is our daily reading. Library books and tapes often go on top so we can get them back on time. Other books are ones that are either borrowed, recently purchased, or current reads. In short, they don’t have a permanent home on another bookcase. On an organized day (read: company is coming) the middle shelf has pictures on it and the top is cleared off.
The picture on the left is a photo of a local river meandering through a canyon.Can anyone tell me how to post a picture so it can be enlarged?
Comments (4)
Hi Carol,
I’m so honored that you are reading my blog! I have enjoyed yours (especially the books)!
Take care,
Dana Miller
Ryc, thank you for your sweet thoughts. I appreciate that you realize how important that ring thing is to me. I will try to get my book list organized soon. There are so many things lined up for me to be doing – all at the same time – that I don’t know where to start. There’s a lesson here: don’t ever retire. Life will immediately become more busy and more complicated than ever.
Oh, I think you’d love “Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City” by Anna Quindlen. I read it earlier in the year and it is a journal of her first trip to London and how it compares to the London she already knew from literature.
Carrie K.
Mommy Brain
if you want to enlarge the photo, you have to save it to your computer first, then zoom in on it. thats the only way i know about…
great blog though!