Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

A temple for books: this is a wet dream for me

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I love books.   Bookstores, libraries really get me going.   In fact, you could say I WORSHIP books and reading.   And this is literally and...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

The Strand and Magnolia Bakery in NYC....my two favorite places on the planet

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I made a quick trip into "The City" on Monday from Long Island to visit my two favorite places: The Strand Bookstore and Magnoli...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

TOP 10 book stores in the world

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Thanks to my beloved friend Carla Tourin for this article. According to Guardian (where in the hell is The Strand?) Top shelves ...
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Great new book HOTEL Bemelmans

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I love to read and quite frankly the only reason I really started this blog was to talk about reading and books. But for the last six month...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Just finished Michael Thomas Ford's great new novel WHAT WE REMEMBER

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I've been on a major reading binge of late. I just finished Michael Thomas Ford's newest novel, What We Remember , yesterday and ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

DECCA: The letters of Jessica Mitford. My favorite read this year (so far)

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I just finished this most amazing and EPIC book titled Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford . It is astonishing the scope of this woman...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Wonderful book-THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS with a gorgeous cover

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I just finished one of the best books I've read this year. It is The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. The author is best known f...
Monday, September 7, 2009

Just finished a GREAT book--I SURVIVED SWISS BOARDING SCHOOLS by Richard Rene Silvin

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I just finished this remarkable book last night, weeping right up to the end. What a wonderful book about triumph despite extreme adversity...
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Monday, August 10, 2009

INCUNABULA--beautiful word

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in⋅cu⋅nab⋅u⋅la [in-kyoo-nab-yuh-luh, ing-] –plural noun, singular -lum 1. extant copies of books produced in the earliest s...