Just Because...

Perfection...

Books and Reading

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book.
~Edith Wharton

Books and Reading

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us.
~Madeline L'Engel

Outside the Back Door

Books and Reading...

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
~ Anne Tyler

Books and Reading...

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
~Elizabeth Hardwick

October Book Report

Beautiful October weather, a World Series Championship for the Boston Red Sox, some really good (and some, not so much) reading...

Three Little Words by Susan Mallery
Romance
Series: Fool's Gold #12
Source: Library
Format: Kindle
Rating: 3.5/5

Someone by Alice McDermott
Fiction
Source: Library
Format: Hardcover
Rating: 3/5

Something Borrowed, Someone Dead by M.C. Beaton
Mystery
Series: Agatha Raisin #24
Source: Library
Format: Hardcover
Rating: 3/5

Bury the Lead by David Rosenfelt
Mystery
Series: Andy Carpenter #3
Source: Library
Format: Kindle
Rating: 3/5

The Southwest Corner by Mildred Walker
Fiction
Source: Library
Format: Hardcover
Rating: 4/5

Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen
Mystery
Series: Her Royal Spyness #7
Source: Library
Format: Hardcover
Rating: 3/5

Sudden Death by David Rosenfelt
Mystery
Series: Andy Carpenter #4
Source: Library
Format: Kindle
Rating: 4/5

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Fiction
Source: Library
Format: Hardcover
Rating: 3/5

So many good books on deck for November--Stella Bain by Anita Shreve, The Supreme Macaroni Company by Andriana Trigiani, Knitting Yarns by Ann Hood, to name a few. What are your plans for November reading?

Note: Books read links will take you to my comments on Goodreads.

The Joy of Reading...

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

~Mary Oliver, Dog Songs