And a good way to pass the evening hours when you have no television. (Actually, we have two, but lack of any kind of reception or satellite renders them useful only as oversized DVD players and dust magnets.) This week’s haul from the
bookmobile (watch for new recommendations next Monday!) is spread out over the dining room table, designated into stacks according to type of reading (titles specific to the Pacific Northwest, magazines, novels, nonfiction, cookbooks, crafts.) I don’t know that at any other time in my life, except maybe
early childhood when the library was a vast resource of untapped potential, that there has ever been so much I wanted to read. Add to the wealth that I am lucky enough to have friends who also love a good book and let me know when they've come across something worth sharing. Little else in life gives so much pleasure to so many.
Book Giveaway!
Give a shout out in the comments and let me know
your favorites. In the spirit of a traveling book, inspired by another
blogger whom I have a new read coming from, I will be giving away my copy of an entertaining volume of oral histories of the Pacific Northwest titled “
Whistlepunks and Geoducks” (also available from my
Amazon store). Be the eleventh person to comment on this entry and it's yours. Read it, sign your name inside the front cover, and then pass it on, if you can bear to part with it!
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5 comments:
What a fantastic idea! I have read some wonderful books over the years, but it seems like every time someone asks me for a recommendation... momnesia sets in.
Pillars of The Earth, Water for Elephants (disturbing, but fantastic) fun and flaky books to read are the Calamity Jayne mystery series by Kathleen Bacus. Joanne Fluke also writes a fun mystery series with a female lead who loves to cook and includes simple down home recipes in every book.
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That's a neat idea!
I am going nuts with Northwest Gardening reading lately. I'm hooked on "Plant Life" and "A Pattern Garen" by Val Easton and anything by Ann Lovejoy, especially "Naturalistic Gardening" and "Cascadia". Also I found Nancy Ondra with "Fallscaping" and of COURSE Ketzel Levine's "Plant This" -- all must-reads for gardeners in our area.
I can't believe it, but I'm not reading ANYthing right now. Sad. There are some great ideas here, though. :D
This is a great idea! I'll have to hunt around and see what I can find.
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