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Annie's Baby edited by Beatrice Sparks
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Death Becomes an Epiphany by Sharan Newman
The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Quakertown by Lee Martin
"Uh, Ted? Did you see the last name of the guy who wrote this?"
"Uh, Michael? Did you see who wrote THIS?"
...
"I need beer, Ted."
"Me too, Michael."
A stack of some of the books I've read in the past two or three weeks. I just realized I've been reading a lot of family fiction lately; these four have one thing in common: skeletons in the family closet.
*For my book groups
For our anniversary, my husband surprised me with a trip to Barter Books, a used bookstore in a converted train station in Alnwick, England.
This was my haul, including 1 book which will eventually be gifted. (and the back cover of "Over the Reefs")
see here for the summary. The final book is "Branan the Pict" - one of those historical fiction books for kids, in this case related a pict and encounters with Saint Columba (I think).
As the shelves empty and the library closes its doors, we all file through and mourn the silence.
Leica M6 with Canon 35mm f2 LTM
Ilford Delta 3200
Developed in Kodak Xtol
Scanned on Epson V500
Cleaned and tweaked in Photoshop CS3
As the shelves empty and the library closes its doors, we all file through and mourn the silence.
Leica M6 with Canon 35mm f2 LTM
Ilford Delta 3200
Developed in Kodak Xtol
Scanned on Epson V500
Cleaned and tweaked in Photoshop CS3
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These pix show the drawback of being a book addict that owns a bookstore. It is like being an alcoholic bartender.
My wife and I took family to the Harmony Hall plantation for a visit today. Stack of Baptist Hymnals in Harmony Hall Chapel.
Interior view showing the mezzanine level of book stacks. Light switches for each aisle. Skylight. Constructed in 1930 from a design by the architectural firm Holmes & Flinn. Building featured a cork floor. HP407
So I got some new books in the mail!!
1. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
2. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
3. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Stand by Stephen King
6. Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
7. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Today, the church, consecrated in 1294, could hardly be more popular. The beautifully restored building is an attraction in its own right, and yet the installation of a towering, three-storey black steel bookstack in the long, high nave, together with a fashionable if somewhat noisy cafe in the choir, works extraordinarily well. Church and bookshop look as if they might have been made for one another.
The Lifeline bookfair raises money for their phone support line and makes me very bloody happy. I've put some notes on the pic so you can share my joy. You can also embiggen it to get the full glory.
It's raid # 1 because the books are restocked all weekend. AND I AM GOING BACK ON SATURDAY AND ON SUNDAY. If you're in Canberra, it's at EPIC showground and on Sunday from about 2 pm you can fill a bag with whatever you can get your paws on for around $8-$10.
I rode home on my bike with this in a milk crate strapped on with scavenged ropes. You should always hang with anthropologists and sculptors if you find you need ropes from time to time. They always have some nearby.
September 2017.
Visiting properties taking part in London Open House 2017.
The London Library, founded in 1841, is one of the world's largest independent lending libraries.
Summer Reading (more or less):
Paul Celan - Collected Prose
James Joyce - Ulysses
WG Sebald - Austerlitz
Virginia Woolf - The Waves
Roland Barthes - S/Z
Jacques Derrida - Specters of Marx
Jacques Derrida - Of Grammatology
The last Masai warrior / Frank Coates
Swamplandia / Karen Russell
The third circle / Amanda Quick
The winter vault / Anne Michaels
Poison / Sara Pool
Crunch time / Diane Mott Davidson