Reading

Lately I have felt like a squirrel hoarding nuts for a cold winter day. Now I grant you, we had what seemed like all the world's snow fall on our city in February - doesn't 56" seem like a lot? In this case, size matters ^ .. ^ I have a stack of books I want to read that would take me many days to plow through - it's wonderful!

It's a beautiful thing for me that I continue to volunteer at my "old" Library branch, having done this since the mid-90s, & still maintain the used books that are sold to benefit the Library branch. Thus I am in the branch on average three times a week. We raise from $80. to $100. a month w/ these books & the dough goes to the Friends group which does mighty good things w/it - i.e. the purchase of books, DVDs & CDs, maintaining the garden at the front corner, fees for speakers for community events, repairs to the building (it's an old Carnegie Library) that the City does not do, etc.

Lately lots of excellent books have been donated for us to sell & I am jones-ing to read-read-read. The stash I put aside for me yesterday included
TRUTH AND BEAUTY: A FRIENDSHIP by Ann Patchett
LUCID STARS by Andrea Barrett (if you don't know her wonderful books, please do check her out - she is a fabulous writer! SHIP FEVER is a good place to start.)
JANE AUSTEN A LIFE by Claire Tomalin
a "how to organize" your office
a Mary Oliver poetry collection
CHRONIC CITY by Jonathan Lethem
a gardening how-to for cooks.

Calgon, take me away.

What reading is on your bedside table?