The State Fair is officially over, the kids are heading back to school, and in the past week there's been a little chill in the evening air that foreshadows the onset of fall. There's still work in the yard to be done (including lots of harvesting!), but as the days grow shorter, and cooler, my mind turns to hibernation, and a good pile of books.
This last weekend I read a book of a different sort. I was at a B&B in southeastern Minnesota, and there was a guest book in my room. What fun to read other people's comments, memories and well-wishes! While there were too many characters too count, and not much of a plot line, the narrative was delightful and thoroughly satisfying.
In addition, the B&B itself was filled with old books to tempt the eye... one featured the first hand accounts of Minnesota soldiers who battled in both the Civil and Indian wars. So much more exciting than a history book!
So what books are you perusing in these last days of summer? I'd love to hear about them!
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We finished the last Harry Potter book and now I'm sorta doing "snacking" reading - some magazines, just bits of books here and there. On The Road is on my mind but I don't have any immediate plans to pick it up again.
Maybe someone will provide some reading inspiration here...
Marianne, you still haven't told me what you thought of "Out Stealing Horses" -- did you get a chance to read it?
"Another round?" And Descartes says "Oh, I think not."
Poof, he was gone.
Also on my night stand is Eat, Pray, Love and The year of Magical Thinking. I will not be picking those up though until i finish "horses," it is exquisite!
THE BOOKS IN B&B"s CAN BE VERY JOYFUL READING, I totally agree..
Recently, I have read "What Paul Meant" and "What Jesus Meant" by Garry Wills-
Both are good reading, informative in an entertaining way and I am impressed with the author's insight, scholarship and devotion.
Today, I am reading "Ancient Egypt", a book I purchased in the Franklin Museum recently in Pa. . The edition is 2006 and the authors; Lorna Oakes and Lucia Gahlin.
This book is very colorful with hundreds of illustrations and easy to read maps and diagrams of hieroglyphics and crowns and headresses ...it is a gem.
"The Search For O M M * Sety" by Jonathan Cott is a wonderful biography and study of a woman that gives very convincing data to chew on as to the reality of reincarnation.
"Intimacy With God " by Thomas Keating is a lovely book written for those who seek an ever more intimate walk with the Divine. I love the contemplative walk and this monk is a Trappist Abbot who wrote the book.
"The Five People You Meet In Heaven" by Mitch Albom is a very intriguing and cativating narrative, which I very much enjoyed and was intrigued by.
Happy book shoppping and library building!
Happy Municipal Library exploring , too!
I love learning new things and getting deeper insights into the past and other people's research into events and historical characters' lives.
I can never learn too much or be bored by discoveries.
Nice sharing with you!
Love,
Karen T.
Wonderful book.
AMERICA'S WORKING WOMEN, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY--1600 TO THE PRESENT. Baxandall, Gordon, Reverby. Copyright 1976.
I read excerpts from an article, "Class Consiousness Among Working Class Women in Latin America: A Case Study in Puerto Rico," Helen Icken Safa, Politics and Society, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1975, pp. 381-85, 387, 389-90, 392-93.
I have to read carefully, avoiding knee-jerk reactions for or against.
"Jesus, gentle and humble of heart, have mercy on us.
Mary, mirror of justice, pray for us.
Joseph, model of workers, pray for us."
excerpt from "At Work," a prayer in CATHOLIC HOUSEHOLD BLESSINGS AND PRAYERS. Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy, National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Copyright 1989.