tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post7014523457924373320..comments2022-07-19T07:48:28.683-04:00Comments on Belle, Book, and Candle: Book Lists From the PastBellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-66679051491654738662013-01-03T19:07:53.621-05:002013-01-03T19:07:53.621-05:00You can find the composition books online. I find ...You can find the composition books online. I find that Mead is the most reliable brand and used to find them for $2 or less. Now I see Amazon is selling them for $5! Outrageous. <br /><br />Ah yes. I used to scorn the e-reader but now that I can download books from my library - for Free - I am glad I have one. I still buy the real books that I want to own. I am learning to live with both. Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-47497815144840089332013-01-03T12:56:08.995-05:002013-01-03T12:56:08.995-05:00Thanks Belle! I will look for a "composition&...Thanks Belle! I will look for a "composition" notebook, as i am in remote area I am not that hopeful! I find that my new collection of fountain pens (its slightly addictive!)are fickle, and a bit snobbish in liking only medium bond paper! As to your comment re "e-reader" I'm afraid while i would be lost without the internet and can never denigrate technology, i need the printed page, and cant imagine every getting one of "them tings". As to etymology i have volumes of reference books but am amazed what the internet can provide at the click of mouse, how scholarly and accurate it is another matter. It would be handy to have a "tablet" (?) and instantaneously look up a word but i love the chase, through old slightly musty pages! Tullikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10524256855855014534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-6583105193155305372013-01-03T11:32:29.272-05:002013-01-03T11:32:29.272-05:00Kat, journals and notebooks are another obsession ...Kat, journals and notebooks are another obsession of mine along with stationery, fountain pens, and books. One can never have too many of any of them. <br /><br />I reread all three of the Merry Hall books this year. I adore Mr. Nichols. I also read 'Down the Garden Path' this year and own a copy of 'Twenty-Five' which was written when he was twenty-five! He is wonderful.<br /><br />I know most of the books came from the library because I wasn't buying books willy-nilly then as I do now. Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-1668260533721072072013-01-03T11:24:21.884-05:002013-01-03T11:24:21.884-05:00Joyce, how great that you have a long-standing aut...Joyce, how great that you have a long-standing author/book partner. I love making lists and am always coming across a scrap of paper with one on it. Not always about books but maybe flowers for the garden, places to visit, new restaurants. Like you say, on and on.<br /><br />Let me know what you think about 'Life Among the Savages.' I am impressed that your library carries it. Not mine.Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-21618931076046690942013-01-03T11:16:06.902-05:002013-01-03T11:16:06.902-05:00Way to go, Tullik. I like your plans. I am always ...Way to go, Tullik. I like your plans. I am always saying I am going to keep a New Word Vocabulary list and then I never do. One of the great things about an e-reader is I can just tap on an unknown word and the definition appears along with the word's etymology. It's magic.<br /><br />You might try the old faithful black-and-white composition notebooks. The cardboard covers give them some heft and ink from a fountain pen doesn't bleed through the pages. I should know - I have a cabinet full of journals in said composition books all written with a fountain pen.<br /><br />I have "The Missing Ink" on my TBR list. I have written with a fountain pen for years and have quite a collection. Just another obsession of mine.<br /><br />Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-52056798388354650762013-01-02T23:08:59.512-05:002013-01-02T23:08:59.512-05:00I love all posts about book journals. Blogs are g...I love all posts about book journals. Blogs are great, but there's something about a notebook.<br /><br />I discovered Beverly Nichols at about the same time you did. I read the three Merry Hall books (can't remember the others' names), but I know he wrote a LOT. I should look for him again.<br /><br />How amazing that you know they are library books! <br /><br />These book journals stimulate the memory, I find!Kathttp://mirabiledictu.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-71551518340410664072013-01-02T20:41:45.164-05:002013-01-02T20:41:45.164-05:00I keep a list of books I have read, have for many ...I keep a list of books I have read, have for many years. A lady I correspond with and I exhange names/authors of books we have read. We don't often read the same books but make a note of authors to try "someday"<br /><br />As to rereading, Gladys Taber books beg to be reread every year or so, some of them month by month as they are written. Wind in the Willows, the Little House books branching out to read some books Susan Wittig Albert is using in her book about Rose Wilder Lane, Louisa Alcott, Elizabeth Ogilvie series about a Maine island lobstering family, and, and, and.<br /><br />Today I borrowed Life Among the Savages from the library. 31 pages into it and I'll keep reading.<br /><br />JoyceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-12575626016638047102013-01-02T19:22:21.413-05:002013-01-02T19:22:21.413-05:002013 will be the year I read and keep an accurate ...2013 will be the year I read and keep an accurate record of what I read and my scattered thoughts on same. I'm tired of trying to find bits of paper, backs of envelopes, library print-outs etc etc that had notes on the book just read, what i liked, musings, what i needed to research further, authors and book titles mentioned that I wished to look up, and important to me also find the etymology of words mentioned, that i was unfamiliar with. So 2013 I am determined to get a decent jotter, not too big (making notes in bed) not too small, so overall functional, but not too fussy. It would also need to have reasonable quality paper as 2013 (actually late 2012)is also the year i return (after too many years) to using a fountain pen and real ink! The latter came as a yearning after reading Philip Hensher's excellent book "The Missing Ink"! So onward and upward, 2013 here I come! Tullikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10524256855855014534noreply@blogger.com