A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books | 
My new book (A Passion For Books) arrived today. My 3 year old asked why I bought it. Me: Because I like books about books. Him: I like books about books too! Me (skeptically): What book about books do you like? Him: Sesame street! (Meaning B is for books) .... The 🍏doesn't fall far from the 🌳😆
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers run a really fun facebook page with great bookish posts like this! And so very true!
Managed to rally and eat this amazing dinner that my mom made (seriously, wow ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) and watch Songland with my family. Back to bed and reading, but the migraine is finally letting up after almost 15 hours! I'm exhausted to the bone from not sleeping and being in so much pain for so long. Reading on my Kindle until I fall asleep is going to feel so good. 😴❤️ (Thanks for all the support #BookFitnessChallenge #BFC fam ❤️)
pickInteresting to see how the essay authors talk about book collecting and about the books themselves as a collectable object. Most of the time they collect authors they like to read and feel are going to be classics for the long term. All of these essays were written more than 20 years ago, some significantly earlier, but still enjoyable.
1. Tagged book, plus A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel and several others
2. In the theater, Search for Spock back in the 1980s. On DVD, Murder on the Orient Express with Kenneth Branagh
3. Tea or chocolate milk
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
I just started this this morning. Sounds interesting. Has anybody else read it yet?
Do you have your favorite book? If so, what is it?
I have a killer headache and a cough from deep in my lungs, so I'm resting with this collection of short pieces on books. It's fun to read pieces by people who love books, even if they're basically all white Western men. Crossing my fingers I'll be up for leaving for work in an hour... 😷
I think being in a bit of a financial crisis at the moment may be a blessing in disguise for my library! I‘ve been unable to buy new books since the new year which is having the benefit of me slowly whittling down my #MountTBR This is just the front stacks filling up my desk,there‘s two more behind these plus two stacks next to my chair,plus the 10 double stacked shelves on the other side.Oh,plus the classics shelf. #embarrassmentofriches
1. Watching by sitting with my husband reading a book while he watches, every so often checking the score to see if I won anything in the pool from work. Oh, and commercials :)
2. 50 degrees! #Denver
3. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
4. Ireland
5. ✋
#friyayintroers!
My neighbor bought this ebook for me earlier this month - it‘s a collection of #essays and stories about books. It‘s still $1.99 for the Kindle in case anyone is interested. There are more than #sixteen entries (the one shown is the 16th, not including the intro). #NoteworthyNovember #NovemberByTheNumbers
What fun! Thanks @Kalalalatja
#bookishwouldyourather
1. Always in bed for this insomniac
2. It's Greek to me
3. Gotta go with lots of average books. How could I survive one whole month with only one book?
4. Movies cause I'd probably miss some episodes of the TV show
5. I'm testing the YA waters, but adult fiction is always my go-to
#TBRtemptation post 5! How about I start with the sub-title: "A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring For, and Appreciating Books". That pretty well covers this highly praised book on books ?. This is a collection of 60 classic & contemporary essays by bibilomaniacs--Bradbury to Roth, Montaigne to Benchley to Quindlen. You'll love it! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?
bailedDespite a good start, Totoro ended up not finishing this book. Perhaps the later essays are wonderful, but the first part had an air of snobbishness that made Totoro uncomfortable. The love of books should be welcoming, not excluding.
From the forward of the book - we're definitely off to a good start!
This I find soothing: "No longer delude thyself; for thou wilt never read thine own memoranda, nor the recorded deeds of old Romans and Greeks, and those passages in books which thou has been reserving for thine old age." - Marcus Antoninus
Today I'm taking Winston Churchill's advice for an overabundance of books: "If you cannot read them, at any rate handle them and, as it were, fondle them. Peer into them. Let them fall open where they will. Read from the first sentence that arrests the eye. Then turn to another. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas."
