persephone books
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For The Love Of Persephone
Persephone Books is one of my absolute favorite bookshops. Not only have I never been disappointed in a book I have bought from them but also, their books are gorgeous with their uniform grey covers and beautiful endpapers. Persephone Books reprints neglected (mostly) women authors, authors such as Dorothy Whipple, Monica Dickens, and Mollie Panter-Downes. When I found out that Jessie at Dwell In Possibility was hosting a Persephone Readathon I knew I would have to join in at some point. Today, posts are supposed to show our Persephone collection, something I am always happy to do. I spent a little while collecting together all of them from the different shelves…
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Books I Bought In London
I bought books in London. We all knew I was going to buy books in London. No matter how much I insisted that this was a vacation for the kids it was obvious that books were going to be purchased. After all, what is a trip to London for if you don’t return with your suitcase crammed full of books? And tote bags. I seem to have developed a tote bag addiction. I didn’t have the time to wander through bookstores for hours at a time so my book shopping was much more focused than usual. I went to a few specific bookstores and if I saw something interesting I…
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A Taste Of A Few Books
I always mean to write book reviews. I have good intentions. I read my books with a pad of sticky notes by my side and mark passages with abandon. Somehow the reviews rarely get written. If you look back at this blog you can see that I talk about books all the time but I seldom write an actual in-depth review. . No, that was not leading up to a book review. What it is leading up to is a collection of some of those passages I have marked with such enthusiasm. Hopefully, they will give you a taste of the book and satisfy my need to make use of…
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Books and Plans
This book came in the mail yesterday. I don’t really know anything about it but I found it online for something like $3.00 and I just couldn’t pass that by. I was so pleased that it even came with the bookmark. I ordered another Persephone for about the same price but that hasn’t arrived yet. I had told myself that I wasn’t going to order any more books for a while but then my husband came home and told me about an interview he had listened to on the BBC. It was with an author I have never heard of but he said it was very interesting and that it…
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