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While I appreciated learning about JP Morgan‘s personal librarian, Bella da Costa Greene, and her rise to becoming an acclaimed art collector, I didn‘t love this read. I was kinda bored throughout the story. Maybe it was the writing. I am intrigued to do some googling on her, her father, Richard Greener, and I would like to visit the Pierpoint Morgan Library on my next trip to NYC. So overall it was a worthwhile read but not a love.

Popped over to beautiful Bruny Island for a couple of nights. Surprised to see so many tourists in the middle of winter.
They have 6 little libraries on the island, made by the Men's Shed. I've visited 5 and will swing by no.6 on the way to the ferry.

I loved this. Manguel writes about being a reader in ways that are so relatable, even though I‘m pretty sure his reading is much more erudite than my own! Starting with reflections on setting up his own library, Manguel uses each chapter to examine a different aspect of libraries—the library as myth, as order, as space, as imagination, and so on. He brings together historical tidbits about personal and national libraries with his own reflections⤵️

Thank you so much for this #staycationswap @Ddzmini ! @Chrissyreadit @DinoMom

Why did I pick up a time travel book when i hate reading time travel narratives? Not for me. It didn‘t help that the main character was fun and smart in one narrative and whiny and impulsively stupid in the other. No more time travel tales for me.

If you know, you know!!!! 🐈😽📚💳

(But, this is what my husband and I refer to as returning books to the library…dropping them off in the Dewey Box)!

They really twisted my arm yesterday. It‘s a dirty job but somebody‘s gotta do it! 😉🤓😎

1 book, 2 books, 3
books, 4 — 5 books, 6 books, I‘ve
gotta have some more!

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Checked out a new local indie bookstore today!