tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-870368817026754414.post574661826011520771..comments2023-05-28T03:50:03.116-06:00Comments on My Scenic Byway: Books=LoveWendy Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263026096835630181noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-870368817026754414.post-81862760575879779612011-01-09T15:51:13.820-07:002011-01-09T15:51:13.820-07:00Jean, I do thank my mother - A LOT! I owe her and ...Jean, I do thank my mother - A LOT! I owe her and some of the other people in my early life who created such a love of reading. I am picking up the reading again - slowly. Read my "This Week on My Scenic Byway" posts for updates on what I am reading. I try to make note of that each week. I just finished the Four Agreements by Ruiz. It is so short you can read it in like an hour. I read it twice last week. Its the kind of thing I want to read over and over as it is a recipe for a better life. Yesterday we went to a fabulous used book store here in Salt Lake and I bought a book by Edward Abbey called Desert Solitaire, written in 1967 about his time as a park ranger in Arches National Park in Utah. What are you reading?Wendy Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07263026096835630181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-870368817026754414.post-20644946232911674992011-01-09T12:40:15.872-07:002011-01-09T12:40:15.872-07:00Wendy - thank you Mother! .......for introduction ...Wendy - thank you Mother! .......for introduction to books, libraries, book sales and book stores! Lol. My evolution in reading has been similar - not the same categories of books, but the same kind of evolution......i find now w/ the world being so intrusive, 24/7 i like more than ever light fiction/mysteries/funny-side of life books. What are you reading today?jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15377141741823967942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-870368817026754414.post-45068899272085717662010-12-07T15:48:39.253-07:002010-12-07T15:48:39.253-07:00Jette I feel the same way. I have this thing where...Jette I feel the same way. I have this thing where I tend to keep most of my books. I can lend them, but not give them away. I want to hold on to them. I love having a bookshelf full of books. I am getting better at giving them up, but they feel like things I should hold on to. I agree that a house with no books is a lonely home. i like what you say about different times taking on different meanings...it is true to me to...sometimes you just read a book and the place you are at, that book just connects for you and it is such a mind blowing experience. here at the beach (family vacation I take almost every year) I've read some books that have just blown me away. they will stay with me always. sometimes traveling i have read books that have just been the right book at the right time - the memory will stay with me forever.Wendy Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07263026096835630181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-870368817026754414.post-2231567440131531932010-12-07T15:00:26.715-07:002010-12-07T15:00:26.715-07:00Wendy, I love books too. I am no longer allowed i...Wendy, I love books too. I am no longer allowed in bookstores because I bring home too many. I have stacks and stacks of them. My books are part of who I am, my past, present and my future. I travel vicariously via literature. It transports me outside my own life, space and time. I love the fact that I can revisit favorite places in books and how they at different times in my life take on completely different meanings, and yet feel like a visit with an old friend. I find that living spaces with no books somehow feel empty to me. I am always astounded when I visit people who have no books in their homes. books are soul food.jettenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-870368817026754414.post-83225588502036689672010-12-07T10:47:46.911-07:002010-12-07T10:47:46.911-07:00Our public library is in what they call the Civic ...Our public library is in what they call the Civic Center Complex in Santa Clarita. Other inhabitants of the Civic Center Complex are the local jail and parole office. And all of these institutions share a central walkway, so that to get to the library, you have to pass the jail and the parolees pass the library. I am not letting my children go to that library anytime soon.Glade Road Colleyvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11523367207806819947noreply@blogger.com