Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other’s first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we’d never truly tasted it before. – Pamela Paul, in My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Books of Books, Plot Ensues For my entire adult life I haveContinue reading “Week Thirty-Three: Join a Book Club”
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Week Thirty-One: Read a Whole Chapter of a Book Uninterrupted
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. – Andre Maurois Picture this: a full cup of warm coffee, a clear sky with the sun shining, a cool breeze, and the gentle sound waves splashing up on the rocks. I cannot imagine a betterContinue reading “Week Thirty-One: Read a Whole Chapter of a Book Uninterrupted”
Week Eleven: Get Lost in a Secondhand Bookstore
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries. – Descartes When the rest of the world is on fire, I can step across the threshold of Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books and be instantly transported to a much simpler time. I somehow find myself inContinue reading “Week Eleven: Get Lost in a Secondhand Bookstore”
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