Sunday, January 19, 2025

Getting Through January

Find a sunny spot!
Reading by the Bookshelf ~ Fadeaway Girl, 1915
by Clarence Coles Phillips, 1880 - 1927


Read to a child!
Mother and Child Reading aka Nursery Rhymes, 1896
by Frederick Warren Freer, 1849 - 1908


Tell some ghost stories!
The Rising Generation ~ Illustration for Rip Van Winkle
by Arthur Rackham, 1867 1939


Scare yourself silly!
Crime Fiction Reader
in Fliegende Blätter magazine March 1933
by Martin Claus, 1892–1975


Find your true calling & live the dream!
Literary Salon: A Reading of Molière, ca 1728
by Jean François de Troy, 1679 - 1752


Stop by the bookstore!
Above & below, postcards from

Powell's City of Books ~ Portland, Oregon

Hello From Portland!
"That bookstore is like a church to me, thought Erikka: words to listen to and think about, music sometimes to push the words towards other and grander meanings, friends to smile at and feel comfortable with, and all of that somehow adding together, making a total feeling that was larger than the good feelings of the separate parts." (29)

from The Daughter of the Moon
by Gregory Maguire
More bookstores like churches:
The Last Bookaneer
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Little Paris Bookshop