New Blue Library

An Evening at Home, 1888
Sir Edward John Poynter (1836 - 1919)

Thanks to my friend and Patron of the Arts, Sir Igor
for choosing this beautiful blue library painting,
now on display in our new library, also painted blue!

See the painting on the shelf, just above
A Christmas Carol Pop-Up Book,
likewise a gift from Uncle Igor!

Just like the painting, the adjoining dining room
features an arched doorway and a gold ribbon mirror.
So, truly, this painting is perfect for this house!

Our Favorite Spot!
The library is lined with blue shelves,
upon which I have managed to alphabetize all the
fiction from Louisa May Alcott to Banana Yoshimoto.
With the non-fiction, I always have more trouble
sticking to the alphabet. In the end most of it
has made its way to various sub - categories
and groupings that may or may not make sense
to anyone else but me. But who's counting?

Also our favorite room for watching TV.
We went to the Habitat Re-Store,
found a 2nd - hand baby changing table;
and Gerry refinished it as a matching TV stand.

Configured differently than our previous
~ McCartney Addition ~
but an equally loveable space, in a different way.
Instead of a side porch - turned - nook, we have a
shelf - lined library - den - TV room - study - family room.
Or, as they say in England: The Snug

On the shelves . . .

A Note to my friend Kathie
[who sent me the Botero Set]
Can you see what's on the shelf just above the Botero? Books by Leonard Orr and his daughter Leah Orr. The dark blue Yeats and Postmodernism contains an essay by you and one by me; the orange one next to it, an essay by Joe Buttigieg! I bought Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte because the author refers to Celine Carrigan's work on the role of the governess in fiction. Right next to that is Victoria Amador's definitive bio of Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant, Jan Donley's novel The Side Door, Terry Galloway's memoir Mean Little Deaf Queer, The Good Psychologist by Noam Shpancer, Lost Girls by Laurie Fox, and more!