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A Girl And A Horse
A stuffed horse named Jake. Stick horses ridden around the back yard with her best friend. Books about horses; Misty of Chincoteague, The Black Stallion, National Velvet, By the Shores of Silver Lake–the part where Laura rides the pony. My daughter has always loved animals and horses have always been pretty high up on the list. Her grandparents gave her some money to spend however she wanted. She chose to buy herself a few horseback riding lessons. I don’t think I have ever seen her so happy. She started off very quiet and solemn, that intense silence of a child who is completely enjoying herself. By halfway through the lesson…
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In Which I Attempt To Pick Favorites
I am not good at picking favorites and I am especially not good at picking favorite books. There are so many variables. A new book or reread? Fun fluff or deep and meaningful? Fiction or nonfiction? I frequently sink into a morass of confusion and eventually give up. But this time I am persevering and giving you a slightly arbitrary selection of my best reads of 2016. Really, it is absolutely amazing that I kept track of what I read this year. I have only done this for a few years in my whole life. I am not sure how I feel about keeping track of my reading. On the…
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Bookshop Love–Brattle Book Shop
Brattle Book Shop in Boston is my favorite kind of bookshop. It isn’t a chain. You won’t find all the latest releases. There isn’t a coffee shop or a play area for your children. It isn’t full of comfy chairs and carefully curated displays. What it is is a real honest-to-goodness secondhand bookshop and there aren’t too many of those around these days. Nothing says happiness like rummaging through an eclectic selection of old books and discovering a treasure you didn’t even know you were looking for. I only had half an hour before I had to be at an appointment but it was a half-hour I put to good…
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Currently Reading–Too Many Things At Once
I really should know better. For the last few weeks I have been reading five million books at once, give or take a million. My usual method is to have two books going at once, one fiction and one nonfiction, but somehow I just kept starting books until it got completely out of hand. I spent quite a while binge reading a science fiction series that belongs to my son. I am not sure why, other than Lois McMaster Bujold I am not really a huge science fiction reader. However, a world of aliens, spacecraft, new worlds, and the occasional battle seems to have been just what I was in…
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A Quick Visit To The Boston Public Library
I think I am in love. With a library. That is acceptable, isn’t it? I was in Boston yesterday and I popped into the library and now I want to move there. To clarify, I want to move to the library. Do you think anyone would care if I just took up residence in the reading room? It is big enough that if I just moved from room to room I could probably evade discovery for days on end. Oh, that reminds me of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. There is another book I need to get for my daughter. Anyway, the library is gorgeous. I…
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