My mom read this to me when I was a little girl. I found this pretty copy at a charming bookstore in Claremore, Oklahoma.
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My mom read this to me when I was a little girl. I found this pretty copy at a charming bookstore in Claremore, Oklahoma.
Book one of my 2019 Victorian Novels reading challenge.
“What a danger it is to love, how it warps a person from the inside, changes all the locks and loses all the keys.”
This I am loving.
After the 2016 Presidential election I read an article that said Hillary Clinton was decompressing with wine, hiking, and Louise Penny mysteries. Since the national nightmare has only gotten worse since then, I thought I‘d join her.
pickReading The Third Hotel was like being in a fever dream full of extraordinarily beautiful sentences. I‘m honestly not sure what the hell was going on in this novel. Is this a ghost story? Has her husband come back from the dead? Has she gone insane with grief? I can‘t spoil it because I honestly don‘t know. But I do know I read some of the most achingly true sentences on love, marriage, grief, and secrets I have ever encountered.
This was a Book of the Month selection ages ago. I finally picked it up early morning when I couldn‘t sleep. Now I have no idea how I‘m going to get any work done because I‘ve been completely taken in by this charming weirdo.
pickLook, in Transcription we‘ve got British spies posing as undercover Gestapo, the BBC, fifth columnists, dead bodies wrapped up in rugs, recording equipment hidden in walls, disappearing ink, and endless cups of tea. Juliet Armstrong, our plucky protagonist, is probably the best character I‘ve recently read. The juxtaposition of what she‘s thinking with what comes out of her mouth was endlessly entertaining. Highly recommend.
pickIf you‘re a SK fan try his audiobooks. Before audiobooks became as popular as they are now Stephen would ask his son, Owen King, to record books on tape for him to listen to. Maybe his audiobook fandom is why his audiobooks are SO GOOD! I actually prefer his books on audio to reading them. Sleeping Beauties may be the best I‘ve listened to yet. Marin Ireland was the perfect narrator. #stephenking #owenking #sleepingbeauties #audiobooks
My Thanksgiving break reading binge begins. Thanks, #fullcirclebookstore
#transcription #kateatkinson #littlebrown
Move. #catssittingonbooks #whydotheydothis #redclocks by #lenizumas #littlebrownandcompany is a feminist page turner with a magical sense of place. Handmaid‘s Tale meets Moby Dick? 🤷🏻♀️
My #24in48 picks. #readytoread
Adding the winner of the Women‘s Prize to my weekend to read pile
Determined to read all 100 #greatamericanread
Don‘t let the length deter you. Enjoying every word and sort of falling in love with General Grant... ❤️
This charming bookstore on Chartres has the best selection of New Orleans related titles.
It's a rainy morning in New Orleans. My plans include staying in bed with this gem and a cup of cafe au lait.
Watched and loved the documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. Then spent over $100 on the biography and her complete works because I'm not ready to leave her company.
Starting today....the cover sparkles ✨. #ALAbookclubcentral #exitwest #riverheadbooks
Finally getting around to this one and it's been impossible to put down.
Penelope weaving in deception of her suitors. From a panel of scenes from the Odyssey painted in Renaissance Italy. I saw this yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Odysseus and the Sirens. From a panel of scenes from The Odyssey that I saw yesterday at The Art Institute of Chicago.
I forgot this book existed until I saw it today at the library. This was a favorite when I was a girl. I think it was the first book that made my heart race. Yet I have no memory of what it's about. Can't wait to rediscover.
A politically polarized America descends into a second Civil War...
Love finding one of these pockets in a book.
I couldn't get enough of this as a child when it was no doubt way beyond my reading comprehension. So happy to be studying it as an adult.
A to- read pile for the rest of the year.
"We are called, in this broken world, to open ourselves to the beauty that persists. To allow ourselves to se and be stunned."
"But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?"
"Yes, I am fond of history."
"I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all-it's very tiresome." Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
This was such a delight. Even though this story takes place in the 60's, I was transported directly back to my childhood in the 80's when the world seemed full of mystery, and poking around the treasures of a museum, a dusty attic, or a tiny library could lead to amazing adventure.
Daydreaming about running away to The Met.
Starting this series for the first time so I can feel smug and complain it's not as good as the books when I finally go see the movie. #thedarktower #gunslinger #stephenking #thebookisalwaysbetter #smug
#sundaysocks Hand knitted by my sister just in time to prepare for my 1st Chicago winter. I have no idea what to expect, but #books #cozysocks and #coffee will get me through. #winteriscoming #whathaveigottenmyselfinto #yourenotinoklahomaanymore
My first Ursula K. Le Guin
Inspired by Antigone's illegal burial of her father Oedipus.
Page 129. "He took a bus home. Things, suddenly, looked strange, he noticed." That's the line I was reading when I got the call that my dad had died. Now I can't decide whether to take the book back to the library without finishing it, or steal the book and keep it forever. I want to keep and remember everything and can't decide what is healthy to hold onto and what I need to let go.
I like to have an audiobook on hand for when I'm exercising, doing chores, running errands.... This seems like a good series to delve into.
When you feel the need to block out the news in order to stay sane, do as Thoreau advised, “read not the Times. Read the eternities.” And what better eternal reading in the Trump era than a Greek tragedy about resistance.
Morning reflections.
