Tagged: bibliophilia

13
Nov
2006

SOMETHING YOU CAN’T GIVE WITHOUT TAKING OR TAKE WITHOUT GIVING

I just finished the book that we are reading for book group, which meets in a couple of weeks, and hopefully by then I will not have forgotten the plot, the characters, the things I liked and did not like about the author’s writing style. I am already pretty sure that I will show up at the wrong place since it has changed and even though I KNOW THIS I seem to still have the original address firmly parked in my brainpan where it appears to have taken root. The book, Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, was very good...

11
Nov
2006

MAYBE IT WAS MORE THAN JUST A SMALL PART

I love the feeling of fullness and satisfaction that comes after you’ve finished reading the final sentence of a book that you anticipated for a long time and which turned out to be completely worth the wait, when you slowly close the cover and hold the book in your hands, sitting still for a moment while your brain reluctantly returns to the present, leaving a small part of itself forever among the characters and events you’ve been so deeply involved in and with for the last however many days ago it was you plunged in and knowing that it will...

05
Nov
2006

BLEARING MY EYES WITH BOOKS

I could not possibly be (or have been) any less motivated to do anything today but read. Not even writing holds much allure, although I’ve been thinking about writing all weekend, and couldn’t. Friday I couldn’t because I was gone all evening having dinner with girlfriends, and Saturday I couldn’t because LJ was down. Well, I suppose I COULD have written, but I wasn’t really in the mood, so I read instead. I read all day yesterday and all day today. I finished a 1443-page book a couple of hours ago and have just started another one. I wonder if...

24
Sep
2006

READING IS A DISCOUNT TICKET TO EVERYWHERE

859 exhibitor booths, all having to do with books or other printed materials, in a conference hall the size of several football fields makes for a delirious day of giddy joy in a bookworm of my caliber. It actually turned out to be a good thing that the majority of the books were in Swedish because I can’t even imagine what I would have spent at a book fair where all the books were ENGLISH! And as it was I came home with 22 books, including 6 each for the kids (plus 3 original Star Wars film-adaptation comic books for...

21
Sep
2006

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

I think my books-to-read pile has reached unwieldy proportions. It’s listing to one side. It’s spreading. The trouble is, finding the time to sit down and them all! Not that this stops me from buying more books, or using my mom as a procurer. And damn, I’m reading as fast as I can!, I swear! I have dreams about being able to do nothing but read all the books I want. Also, why didn’t anyone introduce me to Josephine Tey any sooner?? I just started reading The Daughter of Time and I may be up all night now. Partly because...

09
Aug
2006

LEAVING A GOOD FRIEND

I stayed up until almost 2 a.m. last night because I was SO CLOSE to the end of my book I could not bear to put it down before I was finished. Reading in bed never puts me to sleep, quite the contrary, it usually wakes me up, and even when my eyes are blurring and gritty with fatigue I have to literally force mysefl to STOP ALREADY and turn out the light. I’ve been reading Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles, as I’ve mentioned before, and have been totally floored by how incredibly mesmerising they are. Set in 16th century Scotland...

31
Jul
2006

ITS LONG DAYS SPENT AND GONE BEFORE YOU KNOW IT

For one week things were slow, even with dinner out, dinner in, a night at the movies and a family birthday party. Today, suddenly, time coughed, the ignition key of autumn turned and the ticking days of the calendar are already filling up. Work hummed and buzzed and scooted me forward so suddenly it’s a wonder I didn’t get whiplash when I suddenly realized it was already after 5 and the light was mellowing beyond the window. I am ready for fall. I expect the mice and apple cider any day. I am ready for the flies to quit tickling...

17
Apr
2006

ROUNDUP

Last week was a 4-day work week, because we got Good Friday off. And this week is a 4-day work week because we get tomorrow, “the day after Easter,” off as well. But! It’s also a 3-day work week because we are taking Friday off and going up to spend 3 days relaxing on the cliffy coast of western Sweden north of Gothenburg. Hopefully, we’ll be able to meet up with studiozoe as well, one of those days. I am still feeling guilty and embarrassed because of my mistake last week. It was a result of too-many-Traceys syndrome. See, I...

31
Mar
2006

READ THE BEST BOOKS FIRST OR YOU MAY NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO READ THEM ALL*

When you find a great new blog do you go back and read through the archives? Why or why not? Does it make you feel like a stalker if you do? I am so unmotivated at the moment I’m amazed that I finally (after sitting and staring for what felt like forever) managed to actually start writing even if it was to cheat and ask a question of my readers thereby putting the onus of providing content on someone else. I’m curious, though. When I find an author I like I want to buy every book they’ve ever written and...

21
Mar
2006

FOU RIRE

I used to wonder how people could stand it in the States, working all those crazy hours. Today I worked a 12-hour day and it wasn’t the first one this month. It wasn’t even the third one. And the scary part was that I had to tear myself away. I wanted to stay and keep working, keep getting things done, and only the knowledge that working straight through for a week wouldn’t even get all the things done that I have to get done prevented me from staying longer. That doesn’t make any sense, but I plead half-full bucket of...

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