I have always been a "reader". From as early as I can remember, my happiest moments were spent with a book in hand...escaping to this or that place and transforming myself into somebody new or learning about and meeting new people.
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Thank you, always, for the questions about what I'm reading. I hesitate to answer that question oftentimes because my memory of the books I read is completely shot. I find that I cannot recall titles, authors, characters, or plot anymore. It's as though I never read the book at all!
(This is surely due to age and circumstance, and the fact that I often read to quiet my head and fall asleep, but it bothers me nonetheless.)
In 1991, I took a little road trip to Dayton, Ohio to visit my friend Dr Dan Gaughan while he was in medical school. We went to dinner and then a bookstore, and as I left, he gifted me with a little notebook to record the books that I read:
It never dawned on me that my Book of Books (or Bob, as he is more affectionately known) turned THIRTY years old last year!
2021 wasn't a particularly prolific reading year for me, but here are the books that I did manage:
(Yes. I am fully aware that I have the handwriting of a serial killer and that it is completely illegible).
This year has started very slowly. I just finished "The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett" by Annie Lyons and enjoyed it quite a bit, but parts of it did bring me to tears.
Now, I'm re-reading "The Starless Sea" by Erin Morganstern. She is the also the author of "The Night Circus"... totally not my normal genre, but one of my very favorite books. Ever. "The Starless Sea" is definitely second, and I find myself reading it slowly to absorb every gorgeous detail of it.
I love writers who write well and take me places I never could have imagined. The elegant turn of a phrase will stop me dead in my tracks, and if I can lose myself in a witty character or a perfect description...I'm sold!
So, Dearies. Thank you, again, for asking what's keeping my skirt blowing these days. As soon as I finish my little chore list for the day and have a bite, I might head back to the big girls sleigh bed for a bit and enjoy a few pages!
Come tell me all about the books and authors that you're loving!