If any of you have Facebook, I would love for you to join me in my new group, The Storybook Cafe. 🍃🌸

Welcome to The Storybook Cafe. Serving a vast array of great books, excellent coffee, delicious novel inspired recipies and a tour through the most beautiful libraries around the world. Enjoy!
https://m.facebook.com/groups/994662364632676/?ref=group_browse

At Violin's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana - who once dreamed of becoming a great musician - and the demonic fiddler Stefan, tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin first to enchant, then to dominate and draw her into a state of madness through the music she loves. But Triana understands the power of the music and she sets out to resist Stefan, to fight for her sanity and her life.

` "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity" `

? "That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner." — Marius — The Vampire Lestat ?

"Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life." — ?

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — ?

The Madonna Magnificat, detail, by Sandro Botticelli, 1482.

Cherished for their linear grace, the divine and mythological masterpieces of Botticelli are the epitome of the golden age of Florentine art. Delphi‘s Masters of Art Series presents the world‘s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. #RenaissanceArt 🎨 🍃

?"Live your life in such a way that you will be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general."

This classic tale of children, adults, rules, imagination and the quest for love and companionship is as ageless as this story. A lovely book that doesn't take too long to read...you can let your mind wander as you paint pictures in your mind about what the garden would look like. 🍃

*I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." ?

My result came out the brooding Mr. Darcy. Find out your answer below:
https://bookriot.com/literary-soulmate-quiz/

Stift Sankt Florian (St. Florian Monastery) is located in the town of Sankt Florian. This stunning monastery was first founded in the 9th century and it is the largest in Upper Austria.

"Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it." -- Quote From Macbeth.

Macbeth, a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, is considered one of his darkest and most powerful works. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when evil is chosen as a way to fulfil the ambition for power.The play is believed to have been written between 1599 and 1606, and is most commonly dated 1606.

"Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." --- Poems of William Wordsworth ---. ✒️

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." — ?

The Library: is one of the first books to tell the story of library architecture around the world and through time in a single volume, from ancient Mesopotamia to modern China and from the beginnings of writing to the present day. As these beautiful and striking photos reveal, each age and culture has reinvented the library, molding it to reflect their priorities and preoccupations—and in turn mirroring the history of civilization itself.

"You fall in love with every book you touch... You never break the spine or tear the pages. That would be cruel. You have secret favorites but, when asked, you say that you could never choose. But did you know that books fall in love with you, too? They watch you from the shelf while you sleep..." -- Sarah Addison Allen -- ?

🍃. Profiteroles. 🍃
From The Little Women Cookbook

A celebration of the meaning and comfort printed books bring to our homes and lives. For the Love of Books is about storytelling beyond the pages of our favorite books.

The ones we choose to keep ― tell the story of who we are. They remind us who we once were and who we aspire to be. Explore the significance of the home library, embellished with alluring photography and illustrations, in a keepsake worthy of any bibliophile‘s collection.

"Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but
vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above
? all let us never despair." ?
Alexandre Dumas, The Lady of the Camellias

Wimbourne Books presents the fourth in a series of rare or out of print ghost stories from Victorian authors, spanning the years 1835 to 1869, including stories from a wide range of authors; English, Irish, Scottish and American. Includes tales by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving. The authors do a splendid job of taking you back in time to "witness" the ghostly happenings on the moors and in the rooms of ancient manors.

Baroque Library of Metten Abbey, Germany.

🍃 Jo's Gingerbread 🍃
From The Little Women Cookbook

🍃 Hot Milk Sponge Cake 🍃
From The Little Women Cookbook

Join the March family for joyous Christmas breakfasts, lovely lunches, scrumptious desserts, and more! You‘ll learn to make ice cream with Meg, molasses candy with Jo, baked squash with Beth, pickled limes with Amy, and so much more. For a creative twist, these delicious step-by-step recipes are adapted from vintage Civil War-era cookbooks for the modern kitchen.

Robert Spaethling presents Mozart in all the rawness of his "driving energies" preserved in the "zany, often angry effervescence" of his writing. Where other translators have ignored Mozart's atrocious spelling and tempered his foul language, Spaethling's new translations are lively and racy, and do justice to Mozart's restlessly inventive mind. This collection should be on the shelves of every music lover.

🌸 Good Morning - Happy Monday 🌸

Laura Hillman was born in 1923 in Aurich, Germany, near the North Sea. Five years after Hitler came to power, Laura was separated from her town and family. The events Laura witnessed in the camps kept her from writing for many years, but she finally set out to write her memoir, facing for the first time the circumstances that led to her survival with the help of Oskar Schindler.

During the days of Nazi terror in Europe, many Jewish children were taken from their families and hidden. Régine Miller was one such child, who left her mother, father, and brother when she was 10 years old. Utterly alone as she is shunted from place to place, she hears that her mother and brother have been taken by the SS. At war‘s end she must learn to live with the terrible truth of “the final solution." #Holocaust

"Unquiet Soul" : is a stand out biography of Charlotte Bronte. Peters's insights are crisp and electrifying. The research done was extensive, and the narrative flows like fine literature. This is a great read for a newbie and perhaps even more enjoyable for the long time fan like myself as Peters works in short, sure stokes and one sees long known events in another light. (1975)

During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. She kept her life‘s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. From the 1860's onward, she had essentially become a recluse. After her death, it was her sister Lavinia finally that preserved the more than 1,700 poems Dickinson had secretly produced. Read more about Emily's life in this biography.

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely." ? -
Louisa May Alcott

She grew up when Hollywood was at its peak, and her mother, Lana Turner, was one of its brightest stars. Life was a glittering world of privilege and promise.Then one night, when she was just fourteen, Cheryl Crane, plunged a knife into her mother's gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato. Here, Cheryl talks about her harrowing childhood, about what happened on that violent night in 1958...and the nightmare of public scrutiny that followed.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Just Finished Reading a Novel. Delphin Enjolras (1857-1945). France.

"She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world."

[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." (The New York Times Book Review)

Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches - a family given to poetry, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women.

Oil on canvas. Charles Daniel Ward | 1872-1935

"When I woke the morning light was just slipping in front of the stars and I was covered with blossoms."
Mary Oliver, Blue Iris: Poems and Essays ?

"Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body."

"From that time on......the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.” - Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope." ----- Sense and Sensibility ?

A Young Girl Reading at a Table, 1849. oil on panel. Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen.