pickJust finished Trust by Hernan Diaz. Highly recommend!
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Another interesting find at our Friends of the Library book sale last weekend, an 1828 8-volume set of the Memoires of a French Duke about Napoleon. 🤗
Another interesting find at our Friends of the Library book sale last weekend, an 1828 8-volume set of the Memoires of a French Duke about Napoleon. 🤗
A most interesting find at our Friends of the library book sale last weekend, an 1875 edition of the Reminisces of General R. E. Lee with beautiful plates. 🤗
pickThis was a most interesting read. You not only learn about the behind the scenes filming of the Wizard of Oz, but also the life and times of the author of the Oz books as seen through the eyes of his wife, Maud, daughter of the famous suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage.
so-soIf you have an interest in how middle class British folk talked and felt in the early 1900s this would be a good read. I found them highly annoying. But I guess that was the point of the novel. A mediocre romance at best.
pickI really enjoyed this book. Life is such a hard scrabble isn't it? Just couldn't help but root for these kids as they struggled to survive. Having lived in Minnesota for several years, it was also interesting to trace some of its history and read about places I've been. This opened the door for me to do more research on the subject matter.
pickWell, three years later I finally pulled this off my TBR shelf and gave it a read. It confirms my belief that every book has its time. Turns out I ended up liking this book once I got past the first sentence. Several laugh out loud spots and several teary-eyed spots. Highly recommend.
pickFinally got around to reading this classic. What a bizarre but compelling read. If you have an interest in the horrors of war, the bombing of Dresden in WWII, the aliens on Tralfamadore, or the nature of time. Give this a read. He doesn't pull any punches. Many people die. So it goes.
pickWow! What a powerful read. You know a book has done its job when you want to hear more.
A new cafe and a new book. A great way to spend the day!
A collection of short stories with a central theme. Just finished "The Spirit Machine". Hope nobody sees me balling in the corner of the Cafe. So much emotion in 3 1/2 short pages. ?
pickInteresting! This author attempts to link the hallucinations of indigenous Amazonian shamans to DNA.
pickThe First Free Women
Original poems inspired by the early Buddhist Nuns
An Ancient Collection Reimagined
by Matty Weingast
I loved this collection of poems! Women's voices speaking to us from 2600 years ago. Thanks to the author for this modern interpretation of an ancient text. Before this book caught my eye, I had never heard of the Therigatha. Women's struggles remain the same.
#poetrymatters
pickLook for Andy Weir's next book coming out 5/4. What a fun, fast read!!
"Darwin had in his personal library a copy of an obscure scientific journal that contained an article, written in 1866, with the answer. But he never got around to reading it..."
There is a lesson in here somewhere.
Haven't popped into the Goodwill for a book look in a while, nice haul for $30🤗
Some survival stories for my reads this "weekend". Gobbled up Hatchet last night, starting on Paulsen's Autobiography today.
pickSee the world through the eyes of someone newly born to it and able to articulate what they are experiencing, limited though they may be in their ability to actually process what is happening around them. Klara will stay with me for a long while. To be released March 2, 2021.
pickInteresting psychological thriller. I really enjoyed the author's insights into human nature. Quick read.
pickSome authors have a gift for transporting you to another time and place. Not sure what it is exactly that sets them apart. Jennifer Robson certainly falls into this category with her latest book, Our Darkest Night, due out January 2021. A story of a family struggling to survive in Italy during WWII. I was sucked in right from the start and resurfaced a couple days later.
pickAbout a third of the way through. Loving it so far!
Excited to find this 1923 two volume special edition of Don Quixote at the Bizarre Bazaar in Ft. Collins, Colorado!
pickCharming book! Listened to the audio book and thought it was well voiced.
Reading Laurell K. Hamilton's latest, Sucker Punch. More than halfway through and still waiting for something to happen. It started out well then stalled. Way too much time being spent on how everyone is feeling. Would benefit from less talk and more action. Loving the Lavender Fairy Tale Cookie though, and enjoying the view across the Bay towards Michigan...how appropriate.
pickI really enjoyed this book. I was surprised at the amount of humor given the subject matter. The narrator was exceptional. Painted a clear picture of each character with her voice.
#40miles20hours
About half way... on to the next read (or should I say listen?)
"Part of a moon was falling down the west,
Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.
Its light poured softly in her lap. She saw
And spread her apron to it. She put out her
hand
Among the harp-like morning-glory strings,
Taut with the dew from garden bed to eaves,
As if she played unheard the tenderness
That wrought on him beside her in the night."
From The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost
"Seven and I said we were Slytherins since almost all Slytherins were rich. When you're a kid in a one bedroom in the Projects rich is the best thing anybody can be."
#40miles20hours
@KristenDuck
"He created the conditions for successful spontaneity. "
Found this complete set of Dickens, published 1891. Not in great condition, but well loved in its time: silk scrap bookmarks, writing in the margins, pasted in articles from an 1893 newspaper, and several ripped pages that were carefully sewn back together.
"The fisherman and his wife, thrifty and hardy peasants, refused to be distracted by the country's incompetent aristocrats and corrupt rulers, who had lost their nation to thieves."
It's a good sign when you're already quoting on page one.
pickVery heavy on the statistics but peppered with enough anecdotal stories to keep it interesting. Light on the solutions, but straight forward enough to tell you that people giving you "solutions" is part of the problem. We don't need more on our to do lists!!
Some books found on my travels thru London and Dublin, now to pack...
so-soA cautionary tale with all the subtly of a sledgehammer to the side of the head.
In between my first and second sleep... just a few more pages...
Stopped in to the Second Shelf while in London. A Bookstore focusing on primarily rare books written by women.
pickWidely diverse stories were used to illustrate theories on why and how we can misread some people so badly. Because the author was constantly interweaving different scenarios, the book felt a bit disjointed at times. Every story he used, was a familiar one where we have asked ourselves, "how could this happen?" The conclusion was a bit weak and could have benefitted from a more lengthy summary, but overall, highly recommended.
"We have a default to truth: our operating assumption is that the people we are dealing with are honest... We start by believing. And we stop believing only when our doubts and misgivings rise to the point where we can no longer explain them away."
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On vacation in Jackson, WY, found this souvenir. Such beautiful illustrations!
so-soI love how forthright and honest she is in her work. I found her second book even more compelling. I wonder if she's working on a third?
Highlight of today's Book Festiful was stopping by Bill Meissner's tent. If you gave him a topic, he would type up a poem for you, on the fly, on his old typewriter! Here's mine!
#LoftWordPlay
Amy Tan Ladies and Gentlemen !!
