7 x 7 Award
Kathy, from Catching Happiness, has recently tagged me for this meme, and though I feel that I probably don’t have much …
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The Long and The Short of Muriel Spark
I have just managed to finish a novel and two of Spark’s short stories today, and hopefully will be able …
Friday Feature : On The Company By Which Our Books Keep
“Both in my library at home and in my bookshops I have a hard time hewing to any strict philosophy …
Stopping to smell the flowers…..
May 7th.–I love my garden. I am writing in it now in the late afternoon loveliness, much interrupted by the …
Friday Feature : On Reading At Meal-Times
“…. all fellow readers who have ever taken a book along to a humble restaurant will understand my saying that …
Has anyone been checking out from any of these…..
Central Public Library, Vancouver These are just a few of the beauties included in the 25 Most Beautiful Public Libraries in …
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
Some tame gazelle, or some gentle dove; Something to love, oh! something to love. Thomas Haynes Bayly This book was to …
Friday Feature : On Reading In Bed
“Hundreds and thousands, possibly millions, of people every night in England read something in bed. They say nothing about it …
A Book… A Place… A Time… (Llangolen)
The book : The Ladies of Llangolen – A Study in Romantic Friendship The Ladies of Llangolen : A Study …
Friday Feature : On How to Care for Books (#4)
Having already learned what the first four elements considered to be “Enemies of Books” as listed by William Blades are, …
