Bastion looked at the book.



‘I wonder,’ he said to himself, ‘what’s in a book while it’s closed. Oh, I know it’s full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there’s a whole story with people I don’t know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it’s already there, that’s the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.’


Suddenly an almost festive mood came over him.


He settled himself down, picked up the book, opened it to the first page, and began to read…”






- Michael Ende (The Neverending Story)

Cutter and Elizabeth, two Florida women with little in common, forge a deep friendship in this crisp, unusual novel. Trouble strikes them both at once, in the form of Cutter's sister, Ginnie, who is in love with, and newly pregnant by, her English professor, Daniel, childless Elizabeth's husband. Elizabeth, tipped off by an anonymous caller, ventures to the house Ginnie shares with Cutter, who was named Catherine but took her father's name. It's Cutter whom Elizabeth finds at home, and their shared dismay over the disastrous affair instantly binds them. Set in Sans Souci, Fla., this debut novel is atmospheric in the way of Southern fiction, but it is also brand new. With casual skill, Friddle makes the case that who we like in life may be as critical as who we love. The friendship between Cutter and Elizabeth changes everything. Elizabeth's money will let Cutter keep the house she venerates but that her sister and her brother, Barry, want to sell. And Cutter's practicality wrests Elizabeth free of her notion of herself as an invalid recluse in the Emily Dickinson mold. The happy ending may seem saccharine to some, but the majority of readers are likely to feel that there's vinegar and sharp greens enough along the way to merit the rich sweetness.


Copyright © Reed
In her second novel, Friddle (The Garden Angel) returns to the family plot for the surprising story of a dysfunctional Southern family, a long-buried secret and the possibility of redemption. Aging housewife Emma Hanley lives in Palmetto, S.C., but dreams of traveling the world; unfortunately, her long-planned European vacation must be postponed when her erstwhile husband up and dies after his regular Saturday coffee klatch with a gaggle of female admirers. Left alone, Emma must learn to deal one-on-one with her mentally troubled son Bobby, born-again daughter Dora and the ghost of son Will, who was killed in Vietnam. While her family goes to pieces, Emma lets her yard go to seed; enter gardener Jake Cary, Dora's old flame, whose efforts to cultivate Emma's garden soon spill into her family life. With fluid prose and telling details, Friddle deftly captures the downward pull of the past and the Southern penchant for mythmaking; transcending the easy stereotypes of Southern dysfunctional family sagas, Friddle's clan is a genuinely quirky lot with its own unlikely ideas of happiness. (May)


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I am currently reading both of these books but today I am going to read the garden angel I am currently on page 172  Love Cutter working so hard to keep her family historic generational home and befriending elizabeth the disfunctional wife of her sisters lover whos her sister just happens to be pregnant by. What will happen we will see.
Had hash for lunch one of my favorite comfort foods. What my dad always made from left over roast with lots of pepper in it. I put perhaps a bit to much salt but it was lovely........and comforting.................  EHERE WHERE IS MY COOPER RUN OFF AGAIN. I NEED HIME WHEN I READ.
BOB S AND JOE S GOING TO HONDURAS AGAIN. HOW SURELE. HOW PERFECTLY TO TURN MY TABLE.  MY TABLE..................
 
I FINISHED THE BOOK AND IT IS A 5 THE GARDEN ANGEL. I FELT IT AND FEEL IT . WHAT CAN I SAY

HOWARDS END IS ON THE LANDING BY SUSAN HILL

who would not love thiStarred Review* One day British novelist Susan Hill went to the bookshelves in her home looking for a copy of Howards End. She didn’t find it (at least not at first), but she did come upon several other books she had never read. That started her thinking: Why not devote a year’s reading time just to the books on her own shelves? The project launched, she began a systematic browse through all the books in her house (it’s an old house with lots of floors and shelves on every floor, not to mention the landings between floors). This delightful bibliophile’s memoir records her experience, both the browsing and the reading. Along the way, she developed a kind of second project: If she could only keep 40 books, which ones would they be? The list of 40 appears at the end, and it’s a charmingly eccentric batch of books, but the real fascination in reading Hill’s ruminations isn’t about the list but, rather, about how she reads and how living with books enriches her life. Those who collect books in any fashion will be lost in their own memories as Hill muses on “things that fall out of books,” or defends writing in books, or, best of all, argues against overorganizing the books on her shelves (no more wonderful surprises). Just try to read this book without nosing around your own shelves. --Bill Ott --


I LOVE READING THIS BOOK
"aH, FONTS, TYPEFACE. hOT METAL. tYPOGRAPHY. pRINTING pRESSES.  wE'LL BE HERE ALL NIGHT. iN THE SMALL DARK DEN THERE IS A BOOK CALLED AN ALPHABET OF FONTS AND SOMETIMES i LOOK THROUGH IT AND GAZE AT THEIR BEARTY AND THE SUGBTLE SUBTLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EACH ONE. iF YOU ASK ME TO CHOOSE MY FAVOURITE i WOULD NEED THREE  GARAMOND, PERPETUA AND RALPH BEYER LETTERING."    ABOVE IS AN EXAMPLE OF RALPH BEYER LETTERING.













THIS BOOK YOU ALMOST NEED TO TAKE NOTES WITH.
sUSAN HILL IS NOW WRITING ABOUT SHORT STORIES. AND IT REMINDED ME OF MY FAVORITE SHORT STORY A ROSE FOR MISS EMILY



THIS COULD VERY WELL BE THE HOUSE THAT EMILY LIVED IN.................

SAT MORNING READING

FINALLY A MORNING TO READ JUST FINISHED tHE RED HOUS MYSTERY   A.A. MILNE. IN MY STACK ARE 200 OTHER BOOKS. I AM SO LOSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.
murder is always a bestseller...




first in the new bibliophile mystery series!



The streets of San Francisco would be lined with hardcovers if rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright had her way. And her mentor wouldn’t be lying in a pool of his own blood on the eve of a celebration for his latest book restoration.



With his final breath he leaves Brooklyn a cryptic message, and gives her a priceless—and supposedly cursed—copy of Goethe’s Faust for safekeeping.



Brooklyn suddenly finds herself accused of murder and theft, thanks to the humorless—but attractive—British security officer who finds her kneeling over the body. Now she has to read the clues left behind by her mentor if she is going to restore justice…
FINISHED THIS BOOK ABOUT A WEEK AGO AND WOULD GIVE IT A 4 STARS.  I ENJOYED THE INFORMATION ON OLD BOOKS AND RESTORING THEM. I AM NOT SURE IF I WILL READ ANOTHER ON THOUGH. I AM A SUCKER FOR ANYTHING THAT SAYS A BIBLIOPHIL MYSTERY.

Droll, finely crafted whodunit from one of England’s most popular writer’s sparkles with witty dialogue, deft plotting, and an amusing cast of characters. Amateur detectives Antony Gillingham and his chum Bill Beverley investigate the disappearance of their genial host after a mysterious shooting, come upon secret passageways, discover underwater evidence, and more. A rare gem that will charm mystery lovers, Anglophiles, and general readers alike.

I bought this book on a recent weekend trip to Newburgh , In. I wondered into a bookstore full of used books. It was in the basement of an old building. The books were very well arranged with each subject being in sections. I enjoyed the book and really did not figure it out till the last few pages.  A.A. Milne wrote this for his dad who had a love for detective fiction.  

Wed Jan 19 2011

Pre snow supposed to snow up to 5 in.tomorrow but it is my day off lucky me. Hope to get some reading done.hope to take some pictures. Pay bills
I hate tv it takes me away from my books looks like we are having pizza yummy
We were very busy today... Long drive home and hotbtempblight came on ?bob just heard ice cracking on the lake think I will get in hot tubs

Mon Jan 17

Just watched house and it was a good one. Starting to believe house and what's her name could be in love. Now reDing the garden Angel by mindy friddle I like this book the characters are interesting. md I love the house that cutter lives in


the house she is trying to keep. CharCters Daniel the professor. Elizabeth his wife afraid to leave the house.



Look how the door swings open into the next room.

 I love these images.



what beautiful pictures! Evidently the picture above is from a abandoned mansion in Detroit.this picture i love“It is too warm for sleeping, but I am meant to sleep. I must not turn on the light, and so instead I take one of my library books and hold it up to the window to read in the half-light that falls there. It is a children’s version of Marco Polo. From the words and pictures of its pages another world comes and fills the bedroom with sailing ships and strange names and spices I have never tasted. I read because I cannot sleep and then I cannot sleep because what I read is more real than my own life. At some moment my eyes fall from the page and yet it is as if I am still reading on and within the story. I roll back and forth in my bed so it rocks softly. It is a ship taking me out to sea from Venice.”



“I reluctantly leave the starlit night and get into my bed. I’m reading a really good book by Mary Webb called Gone to Earth. It’s about a girl who has a pet fox. Mary Webb has written several other books. I’ll have to look out for them at car boot sales or in the second-hand bookshop, as they are so old they are probably out of print.”



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I did not get this book it has too many loose ends and then in the end he finds the desk.Why did his daughter hide it from him I just do not getit at all.
In Brief


For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer’s life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.



Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared.



Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change?



Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss. (From the publisher.)

First course--soup.




Second course--fish.



Third course--meats.



Fourth course--salads.



Plates, knives, forks, and spoons to be removed each time, and replaced with clean ones, except spoons, which will not be needed.



Then comes the dessert; after which introduce finger-bowls half full of pure water, with napkins.





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DINNER-TABLE.





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The dishes selected for this table are merely intended to represent a suitable style of arrangement, as also a handsome one, without any intention of insisting on always having them appear in their present position on the table, or on any necessity of always having them for a dinner company. The mistress of a house must use her taste, judgment, or fancy in the selection of her dishes, always remembering that "variety is the spice of life." In truth, as a dinner-party is equally as conducive to rational as physical enjoyment, it is well to give your table as attractive and agreeable an appearance as possible, ornamenting even with efforts of genius. Pyramids of fruits and flowers, or vases of choice exotics, at intervals, enliven a dinner-table vastly, put the guests in a genial humor, and open their hearts to the impulses of kind, generous, and benevolent feelings toward their companions as well as all mankind.



Arrangement of your Dessert.

If you have a suite of apartments admitting of it, set your dessert-table in another communicating with your dining-room. As soon as dinner is over, let the guests rise and be conducted into the dessert-room. It will afford an agreeable change, and relieve you of removal of dinner-dishes, brushing off or removing cloths, etc.



If this arrangement cannot be made when the dessert is over, remove the cloth, and take a glass of wine with the guests, or a cup of coffee, and retire with your lady guests to the withdrawing-room

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Big Edie Beale Jewels


Unbelievably, diamond and platinum heirloom jewelry belonging to Edith Beale was once offered at auction on eBay. The necklace and pendant were worn at her wedding. The earrings were a gift from Phelan Beale. And the brooch features Bouvier diamonds. The opening bid of $300,000 was never met...