AT HOME WITH BOOKS
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The mantle bookshelf in the McHuston Bookstore. I pick this as my best/favorite pixel worthy frame of 2021. You may ask why this shot??? I always work at posting a photo that cannot be replicated in a do over shot. The bookstore is in final phases of closing by Christmas 2021, these are old books printed in 1890s to 1920s, they are all gone scattered to the four winds of the internet. I wanted the one book but they declined to sell in store and put them online for best offer. I hope that each found a great home. So this frame cannot be redone with these same books or even the bottle. I really struggled to find which one, I had a lot of good ones but no really stars that stood out.
there seemed to be a renewed interest in my old bookshelf photo, so i thought i would show you what the room looks like today.
What I mostly wanted as a child was a new book to read on the Christmas holidays. I think the longing must have run in our family, as these volumes belonged to my great Aunts Blanche & Lilly from the early 1900s. Back in the days of no media entertainment and no music unless you made it yourself, these books must have been treasures to them.
A cosy and nice place in Gargzdai where you can find books in several languages, board games and quiet atmosphere ;)
My Target bookshelf with Ikea bins, my James Dean screen, books, and photos. My Canon usually sits atop the yellow book, but of course I am holding it in this photo. Also seen is an Aiptek camcorder.
The screen hides an outlet and the plug for the Aiptek, which charges there.
This shelf holds some of my most loved books.
From the left we have Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss, which I enjoyed, though it's by no means one of my most loved. Next to that is The Alienist by Caleb Carr and its sequel, The Angel of Darkness. I adored The Alienist, it being about the early days of criminal profiling in late 19th century NYC. Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit, is about five children finding a strange creature on the beach. I read it many, many times when I was a child.
As a pre-teen, I adored Lois Duncan, who wrote I Know What You Did Last Summer, if you've seen the movie. I wasn't too keen on that book; I much preferred Stranger With My Face (the beat-up slim purple volume just to the left of middle), about a set of twins separated at birth who could engage in astral projection.
Yet another Anne McCaffrey volume, this one being The White Dragon, all about Lord Jaxom and his albino dragon Ruth. Jennifer Crusie's Faking It isn't about what you think it is; it's about a family who owns an art gallery. I'm pretty sure their business is counterfeiting works of art, but it's been a while since I read it. I thoroughly enjoyed it, however. And then we have Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus. I really, really loved this book, which is about a woman who married a Confederate veteran when she was 15 and he was 50. She tells her story to a young candy-striper while in a nursing home near the end of her life -- and it's just the type of book I love. Lots of little vignettes held together by a common plot which moves through the main character's life.
I have yet to read The DaVinci Code and bought it primarily because everyone else owned it. But I got it from Costco, so I didn't pay much for it. I haven't read The Handmaid's Tale yet either, but I plan to. The Three Musketeers is an excellent book, even if I end up replaying the movie with Chris O'Donnell in my head as I read.
My collection of Observer's books, from my Mum, & Beatrix Potter, from my own childhood
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One of my friends in my bookclub is moving to Australia so we wanted to give her something to remind her of our group of friends here. A bookshelf mini quilt seemed perfect for someone we've been reading books with for the past 4 years. :]
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