Tag Archives: Reading

Rainy Saturdays are for Reading

“I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again — there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no … Continue reading

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Summer Reading

  Here we are already; it is late summer and the days are passing quickly!  How are your summer reading plans going? For the past ten days I have been reading Margaret George’s 800+ page biographical novel of Mary Queen … Continue reading

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Saturday Reading

How I love Saturdays… weekends are for relaxing and reading a good book! The morning housework is almost done and I got my walk in… and now there is the anticipation of something to read and absorb myself in for … Continue reading

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Spring

“A little Madness in the Spring               Is wholesome even for the King.” ― Emily Dickinson “Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with … Continue reading

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Howard’s End is on the Landing

  I am slowly making my way through Susan Hill’s “Howard’s End is on the Landing” (I mentioned before that I am getting into reading books about books!)  I am enjoying reading her thoughts and insights on literature, writing, classics, … Continue reading

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Reading for 2015

I am busy making my list of 50 books I want to read this year!  I have never set goals in my reading before; I just always preferred to exercise freedom in choosing what to read, rather than to put … Continue reading

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Winter Reading

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ― Edith Sitwell “I wonder if the snow loves … Continue reading

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I Feel Like Reading!

“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I’ll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every … Continue reading

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Fall and Reading

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ”                                George Eliot “If you cannot read all your books…fondle them—peer into them, let them … Continue reading

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Rain and Reading

I’m here, I’m here, I AM here! Still reading! I am reading a long historical novel by Anya Seton, am 2/3 of the way through.  And meanwhile, Spring DID come.   And, it’s raining! and when it rains, it’s a great … Continue reading

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