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Books!
The Alameda Library Sale is this weekend! At first I thought the website said they would be selling between 800-1000 books, which is…pretty much like if you came over to my house to shop. But then I realized they will be selling 800-1000 BOXES of books. I am all over this. All over it.
Mindpop
Okay, yes, it’s possible that my entire experience of the internet consists of links my friends put on Facebook and links I find on The Hairpin. Oh well, so what if you all have seen this blog written by a stroke survivor. It’s great. I love this: “If the words coming out of your mouth … Continue reading
Dinner Party
Last night I laid awake for a bit considering who I might invite to a dinner party of literary characters, and I thought I would present to you my guest list. This kind of turned into a matchmaker party, so assume that all these characters were somewhere near the beginning of their stories, before they’d … Continue reading
Collector
Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons. One of my top five favorite books of all time. As you can see, I am engaged in literally loving it to bits. Among the many things I love about it, here is a little speech of the heroine’s: “When I am fifty-three or so I would like to … Continue reading
I do not update my status for my own amusement!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single person in possession of a computer must be in want of some Facebook friends. In other words, Austenbook.
Waaaant.
Library propaganda (created by this guy): Also would not say no to some of these: And speaking of book things I wanted, my Coralie Bickford-Smith arrived. It’s beautiful. This was a genius plan and I cannot wait to spend hundreds of dollars making it happen. However, I will have to wait, because Gene claims he … Continue reading
The Shelf
I’ve finally figured out the perfect use for the built-in bookcase at the top of the stairs. Shrine of Bickford-Smith. I have squeed about Coralie Bickford-Smith and her fancy-fancy covers of Penguin Classics in the past. But I figure you can never have too much book-related squee. To buy a new or fancy book is … Continue reading
Useful
With a blank mind and quiet heart today, I’ll let Middlemarch speak for me, because this makes me smile: “Will did not know what to say, since it would not be useful for him to embrace her slippers, and tell her that he would die for her.” Have a good weekend, y’all.
Just for Michele
A few more book stats: The last book I read before getting married was the extremely cheery and light-hearted Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi. The shortest books I read all year were Terry Pratchett’s children’s book Where’s My Cow and William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, each containing just 24 pages. The … Continue reading
License to shop
I read 205 books in 2010. Of those books, I had read 93 of them at least once before, leaving 112 that I read for the first time. I borrowed 53 of those first-time books, which means I went out and bought, without having read them, 59 books last year. And of those books, I … Continue reading