pickA humorous look at the world of an antiquarian book shop and the people who work there. This one is a quick read, broken into anecdotes from the author's time at the shop. I bought it mostly for the beautiful cover a few years ago and finally got it read for my December #Doublespin @TheAromaofBooks
pickSuch a fun gathering with my #NashvilleLittens! One of my favorite holiday traditions. 🎄🎅🏼 Thanks to Amber for my extravagant and lovely gifts!
Gandalf.... is also an oblique self-portrait of his creator. Crucially, Gandalf unravels the identity of Bilbo's Ring by deciphering long-forgotten documents in the royal library in Minas Tirith....
Gandalf finds a forgotten scroll that reveals how the One Ring would have made its way into Gollum's hands. It's a wonder Gandalf didn't stay another year or two in Minas Tirith to prepare a critical edition...
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Here are my favourites of this year - probably quite similar to a lot of other Littens‘ lists! 🤪 There‘s a fair few from prize lists and, of course, many recommended (or even gifted) by Litsy friends.
I think the top 17/18 were easy but there were a few vying for those last few spots. Those that just missed out included Lula Dean, The Wedding People, Wolf at the Table, The Collected Regrets of Clover and Notes on an Execution.
When (imho) the editor probably should have said: "Why don't we save it for the next book, David. That one can be about fictional places..."
(Don't get me started on the jump from Walcott to Joyce. These profs, just think rules are for other people ???)
...she says that 'considering the total antipathy I had toward matrimony,' the convent was the most honorable decision she could make. She took the veil at age nineteen, despite her fear of routines that 'would limit the freedom of my studies, or the noise of a community that would interfere with the tranquil silence of my books' (97). She did at least get a cell of her own, and she amassed a library of several thousand volumes...
This book should be subtitled 'and add them all to your wishlist.'
Your 'year of reading' from Goodreads has a different look this year.
Edit: 😆, it doesn't. It's the same at the website.
