Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Sacred Ground

~ Book Benches ~
Burgas, Bulgaria
Q: What do books stores & grief have in common?
A: "Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."
~ Oscar Wilde ~
The Magic of the Book:
~ Hermann Hesse on Why We Read and Always Will ~

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Summer Reading So Far


Two old favs by E. L. Konigsburg:
Silent to the Bone & Outcasts of Schuyler Place

Two old favs by Muriel Spark:
A Far Cry From Kensington & Memento Mori

Two new mysteries:
Kiss of the Moonflower by Joe Benevento
Careless Love by Steve Zettler

Three sci - fis:
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (2022 ~ Great Books)

One biography:
Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess:
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

by Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland