Found Another Cool Site

http://undergroundnewyorkpubliclibrary.com/


Wonderful pictures of New Yorkers reading on the subway

Check out this site

Although I am not particularly fond of the blog title the pictures of bookstores, bookshelves, and book storage are fabulous.

http://www.bookshelfporn.com

What Librarians Do

http://schoolzandtoolz.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-do-librarians-do-all-day.html


Had to share this! from 2010 by Jennie McKenzie from her blog schoolz and toolz

I absolutely love reading Ferrol Sams. Don't know how I missed his 2007 Down Town. Almost halfway finished and am enjoying his writing style, his phrases, his characters and setting. Can recognize the South I caught perhaps the "tail end of" by being born in the 1950s.

My son tried and tried to read him, but just can't get into his books. So obviously not for all.

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1237 Follow this link to learn more about this wonderful Georgia author.

Busy Reading, But Not Posting

Have been busy with lots of books but I have not been posting of late.

Here is a list of recent reads.....

Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand

Scarlet by A.C. Gaughan Young Adult Fiction

Baby I'm Yours by Stephanie Bond A short prequel to a series

The Sweetest Gift by Jillian Hart (A love inspired romance I purchased for my mother)



I have also been spending some time doing genealogy. Took some books back to my former library today and was talking with the new librarian. Mentioned the genealogy and she asked, "What's with it with people who retire and take up genealogy? My mother did the same thing."

Guess we have the time and we are closer to the other end of the family tree than before and want to get it all down while we still can!

Kindle at the Beach ><> ><> WONDERFUL

A week long trip to Alligator Point, Florida, a Kindle loaded with 5 books that were checked out from Camellia Net an Alabama online library that our public library is a member.

Neighbor on the beach taught me a trick. Put your kindle in a ziplock bag. No sand, no moisture.
Asked her, "What's on your Kindle?" Answer, "Oh, just one of those free mindless beach reads."

I read an assortment

Wrapped in Rain: A Novel of Coming Home by Charles Martin

My Reading Life by Pat Conroy

A Month of Summer (Blue Sky Hills) by Lisa Wingate

The Summer Kitchen (Blue Sky Hill Series) by Lisa Wingate

Experienced Alzheimers, a stroke, two runaway children, a battered girlfriend, an abandoned toddler, a mentally ill brother, child abuse, a paralyzed Judge, more alzheimers, several dysfunctional families, family ties that can't be broken, Clark's Fish Camp in Jacksonville, writing in Paris, economic ruin and more and more and more.

Quotation 10 from my Book of Quotes

"God reveals to us only as much as we're able to accept."

from Two From Galilee by Marjorie Holmes