Tag: books
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Unwanted Books…
Unwanted books… Somehow, reading, blogging, and life in general, seems to have got out of routine in recent months while I’ve been backwards and forwards to see my mother. I did manage to get the Internet up and running last time I was there, but the connection in her part of Herefordshire is dire. And…
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October Reading – and Writing!
To celebrate the start of October, hereis the the illustration for the month fromthe Duc de Berry’s Book of Hours, whichwas created in the 15th century. Well, October is upon us, and what with holidays, various trips, visits from my Mother and Elder Daughter, outings with Younger Daughter, computer problems, and then mum being ill,…
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My Perfect Library
A wall full of books. This morning I have been at the Oxfam bookshop, then I met some friends for tea and a chat, so I spent the afternoon relaxing with EM Delafield’s ‘The Diary of a Provincial Lady’ whilst eating home-made vegetable soup with cheese and wholemeal pitta bread (which I didn’t make, but…
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A Right Royal Knit-Wit (Saturday Snapshot)
And now for something completely different for this week’s Saturday Snapshot… a Not The Jubilee Knitted Queen! I spotted the pattern in Fiona Goble’s Knit Your Own Royal Wedding (published last year by Ivy Press) and decided she would be perfect as Alan Bennett’s book-loving monarch in The Uncommon Reader, but I altered her a…
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Do You Have An Odd Book Shelf? (Ex Libris, Anne Fadiman)
The late-great Flann O’Brien (aka Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) would, I feel have approved wholeheartedly of Anne Fadiman and her family. The idiosyncratic exponent of the art of Professional Book Handling (http://chriscross-thebooktrunk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/i-want-to-be-book-handler.html) would have been delighted by their belief that books are there to be read and enjoyed, and that it is quite…
The Book Trunk 