tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91485578074743101102024-03-12T21:46:57.153-04:00Belle, Book, and CandleA woman and her booksBellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.comBlogger999125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-19260917937451148072018-12-31T20:46:00.000-05:002018-12-31T20:46:12.384-05:00To All the Books I've Loved Before<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>December 31, 2018</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Lovely Readers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The time has come to close the book and extinguish the flame here at <i>Belle, Book, and Candle</i>. My first post was seven years ago on January 1, 2012 and this is my one thousandth entry. As I do appreciate a tidy ending, it is fitting that I stop now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because of my immersion in books and bookish things these past years, I have read wider and had more experiences than if I had just been toddling along reading hither and yon. There is no way to recap seven years of writing other than to say that I have read many books, met numerous authors (I am fortunate to live in a city that values books and their creators), attended book fairs and other literary events, visited writers' homes and intriguing bookstores during two Grand Southern Literary Tours, spent luscious hours in libraries, bought a multitude of books, and added a terrific number of titles to my reading list thanks to your informed suggestions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You have been with me on multiple retreats to the Abbey of Gethsemani and times spent in New Harmony, Indiana. I cherish the friendships I have made here. It has been a pleasure making your acquaintance and knowing that I am not alone in my obsession with books. I am happy that I could share my experiences with you all.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you. My life is richer because of you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy reading,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Belle</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">P.S. </span>Believe me, I won't stop reading or attending literary gatherings. I hope you won't either. I would love it if we kept in touch by email (bellebookandcandle[at]hotmail[dot]com).</span></i>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-78180511095698482052018-12-28T20:28:00.000-05:002018-12-28T20:28:20.923-05:00Book of the Year - 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It wasn't difficult to make my choice for Book of the Year: <i>The Library Book</i> by Susan Orlean. It is one that recently came into my life and comes with a pretty good story as to how I happened to acquire it. I wrote about the surprising circumstances of receiving the book <a href="https://bellebookandcandle.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-library-book-by-susan-orlean.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that I have read it, I have been recommending <i>The Library Book</i> to just about everyone I talk with. It is part mystery, part history, part biography, and always a tribute to libraries and books. It offers brief lessons in architecture, city planning, social issues, firefighting, arson investigations, and technology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The idea for the book came about when Ms. Orlean learned of the fire in 1986 that practically destroyed the Los Angeles Public Library. Was the fire caused by accident or was it caused by "an open flame, held by a human hand"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No matter how it began, before it ended, the fire had raged for seven hours killing 400,000 books and injuring 700,000 more. It was seven years before the doors of the rescued and renovated Goodhue Building opened again to patrons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ms. Orlean cannot write a stodgy sentence. Her description of the path of the fire as it roamed through the stacks consuming book after book and shelf after shelf left me with tears in my eyes. Her attempts to experience what it felt like to burn a book (fittingly, a copy of Ray Bradbury's <i>Fahrenheit 451</i>) was as traumatizing for me as it was for her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are fascinating facts about how libraries work, their history, and thoughts on their future. Ms. Orlean offers the personality-filled lineage of the heads of the Los Angeles Public Library (founded in 1872). She relates her many conversations with current staff members, department heads, and even the security guards who make their daily rounds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She writes of mobile libraries around the world including ones powered by donkey, burro, boat, train, or elephant. There is also a nod to the 1936 establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Pack Horse Librarians who for years served the small communities in the mountains of Kentucky, my home state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She recalls with great fondness trips she made as a child with her mother to her local library. She explores the future of libraries as not just storehouses of material - not only books, but maps, music, art, genealogical sources, and films - but as information and knowledge centers. Town squares, if you will, where people meet and mingle, read and relax.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are so many thoughtful features in the construction of <i>The Library Book</i> - from its cover that feels like cloth to the card catalog titles that open each chapter to the end papers - but, I won't spoil that surprise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you haven't yet bought yourself a Christmas present, I guarantee you won't go wrong treating yourself to <i>The Library Book</i>. This is definitely one you will want for your own library.</span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-1543535212803814492018-12-14T21:09:00.000-05:002018-12-14T21:09:18.149-05:00One Can Never Have Too Many <span style="font-size: large;">One can never have too many books about Paris and French life. </span><span style="font-size: large;">As sometimes happens, when it rains it pours. In the past few days two books have arrived to sweeten my bookshelf concerning both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Every Frenchman Has One</i> is written by a woman who, depending on your age, you might or might not have heard of: Olivia de Haviland. Yes, that Olivia de Haviland, the award winning actress who starred in many films and might best be known for her role as Melanie in <i>Gone With the Wind</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1955, Ms. de Haviland married Pierre Galante, editor of the French journal <i>Paris Match,</i> and moved from Hollywood to Paris. This memoir is the result of her learning to adapt to <i>la vie française</i>. I haven't started reading it yet, so I can't tell who or what 'one' every Frenchman has, but I am eager to find out. At a mere 140 pages, I suspect this will be a breezy, delightful read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ms. de Haviland was born in 1916 and this book, originally published in 1962, was reissued in 2016 in honor of her centennial birthday. As of this writing, she is still living in Paris.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Parisian Charm School</i> is written by American author Jamie Cat Callan. Raise your hand if you think you could benefit from a bit of Parisian <i>je ne sais quoi.</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ms. Callan, inspired by her French grandmother, has written several books about the allure of the French lifestyle. This latest one is s</span><span style="font-size: large;">et up as a series of classes. At the end of every chapter (dining, reading, travel, fashion, etc.) she includes a charm school lesson - something to think about - and a charm school <i>pratique</i> - something to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here we have one book that looks at life in France decades ago and the other that offers a take on its more modern charms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These <i>deux livres</i> should keep me entertained and amused over the holidays. Until next time, wishing you a</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i>Joyeux Noel et Bonne Année.</i></span></div>
<br />Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-74068161359447839912018-11-30T17:18:00.000-05:002018-11-30T17:18:43.767-05:00The Colors of All the Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have written many times about my love of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books and that meeting author Alexander McCall Smith (<a href="https://bellebookandcandle.blogspot.com/2015/04/in-which-i-meet-alexander-mccall-smith.html">here</a>) is one of the highlights of my literary life.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">In this latest installment, <i>The Colors of All the Cattle,</i> there are plenty of cups of red bush tea, generous slices of Mma Potokwane's cake, and the lenses of Mma Makutsi's glasses still flash a danger signal when she is upset. And, <i>finally</i>, Charlie, mechanic apprentice and detective in training, gets a serious girlfriend. He is also instrumental in solving the case of the hit-and-run motorist.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But it was the main thrust of the story that resonated with me. As it happens, Mma Ramotswe is reluctantly running for a seat on Gaborone's City Council. This is at the urging of Mma Potokwane, matron of the Orphan Farm - as insistent as only she can be. Her reasons for encouraging Mma Ramotswe in this endeavor are two-fold: one, that arch nemesis of Mma Makutsi and pretty much every one associated with the detective agency, Violet Sephotho, is running for the same seat and who knows what havoc she would wreak as a council member.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The other reason Mma P. is so adamant that her friend should run is her strong opposition to a developer's proposed building of a garish Big Fun Hotel next to a town cemetery. In a country that holds great reverence for its late family and friends, this will never do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are facing a similar issue here in Louisville. A developer wants to build a 33-story condo/apartment/retail center right at the entrance to one of our fine Frederick Law Olmsted parks. It would loom over our historic Cave Hill Cemetery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Believe me, people - and I include myself - are quite upset about this and although there have been many meetings with the developer he seems unwilling to amend his plans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The property is actually quite small. A mere triangle of land. To me, the design looks like someone attempting to stuff ten pounds of potatoes (although that is not the word I usually use) into a five pound bag. You get the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To give you an idea of the scale of this monstrosity, the tallest building in Louisville, a downtown tower, is 35 stories. It fits in with other commercial buildings in the city center. Thirty-three stories in a residential area is outrageous. Not to mention that my family and I own 'property' in Cave Hill Cemetery and we would all be resting in the shadow of such a monolith for eternity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The plans have not been approved by the planning commission and city council as yet, but this same developer recently got approval to tear down a three-story apartment building in a nearby residential area and is planning to build a 15-story condominium in its place. That was opposed by the neighborhood association (it took the developer to court and lost) and many residents of the area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">B</span><span style="font-size: large;">ut, back to Mma Ramotswe and her friends. Over tea, they spend time musing about greedy property developers, the difference between good progress and bad progress, the honesty or dishonesty of politicians, and the importance of voting in civic elections.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I won't tell you how things turn out for Mma Ramotswe and Gaborone and the late residents of the cemetery as that would spoil your enjoyment of this book. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But, even if your city or town is not being overrun by concrete and glass high-rise buildings, I think you will be entertained by this tale. It is a charmer.</span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-22925770131018963062018-11-16T22:33:00.000-05:002018-11-16T22:33:54.979-05:00Away to the Abbey<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Abbey of Gethsemani</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is time for my annual Thanksgiving week retreat to the Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky. I have been spending the holiday week with the monks for the past few years, and I have been on retreats to Gethesmani many times over the past 30 years or so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year, because the Abbey's guest house was closed for refurbishing, I retreated to Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana. Although I spent a pleasant few days there, there is nothing quite like the silence and contemplative atmosphere of Gethsemani.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'll have a private room with bath, a bed, a desk, a comfortable chair, and days of unstructured time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am so ready.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, my biggest decision is what books to take. I usually pack more than I could ever read in a few days, but I never know what I might be in the mood for. The guesthouse has a wonderful library and I usually end up plucking a book or two off its shelves to explore as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After much consideration, I'll take only two books with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just purchased a copy of <i>The Bullet Journal Method</i> by Ryder Carroll. I have toyed with my own version of this popular way of tracking time and tasks, and although it might sound an odd choice to take on retreat, I want to give the author's ideas and suggestions uninterrupted attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the opening line:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Bullet Journal method's mission is to help us become mindful about how we spend our two most valuable resources in life: our time and our energy.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seems like a good choice for contemplating the upcoming year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other book is one I have had for a while but have not had the opportunity to fully examine: <i>A Book That Takes Its Time - An Unhurried Adventure in Creative Mindfulness</i> by the editors of FLOW magazine. It is filled with essays on slowing down, living with intention, and all sorts of creative paper goodies - postcards, stickers, collage elements, and fill-in lists. I love lists! It is a beautiful book and I can't wait to dive in. Slowly, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'll also take a few basic art supplies, my journal, and an open spirit. There are always surprising adventures to be enjoyed in this place that feels almost as familiar as home - but without chores and errands and the constant interruptions of technology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are in America and celebrating this week, enjoy your Thanksgiving however you choose to spend it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am here to offer you firsthand proof that the library is filled with magical happenings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Monday night I attended an author event at the Louisville Free Public Library. I was there to hear Susan Orlean talk about her latest non-fiction offering, <i>The Library Book</i>. She gave a splendid presentation, reading a few selections from the book, answering questions from the audience, and generally just charming us all with her relaxed conversation and humor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Library Book</i> begins with the fire of the Los Angeles Library in 1986. A fire intentionally set that destroyed 400,000 books and damaged another 700,000. (I know. I shudder to think of the loss.) It is the largest library fire in U.S. history. The downtown building, erected in the 1926, was closed for seven years while renovation and reconstruction took place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This event prompted Ms. Orlean, many years later, to write this book. She is a big fan of libraries and in the book recalls her many trips as a child with her mother to their local library in Akron, Ohio. She loved that she was given free rein to roam the library, and as she said, "leave with books I hadn't paid for."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She also writes about the history of libraries in general and the day-to-day life of the institutions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the Q&A she spoke of her need for a private work space and of her writing process. She sorts her handwritten research notes onto 5"x 8" index cards (for this book she had 700 of them), and once she begins, aims to write 1000 words a day, revising and editing as she goes along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After her talk, I made my way to the lobby to purchase this book and have her autograph it. I definitely felt a connection. After all, my mother was head librarian of a large branch library here in Louisville </span><span style="font-size: large;">for many years;</span><span style="font-size: large;"> I had visited the Los Angeles Public Library (not many years before the fire) and remember the murals in its rotunda depicting the history of California; and my first job was as a page at our small neighborhood library earning 50 cents an hour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had to have this book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I stood in line, money in hand and ready to buy. But, when I got to the head of the line I was told that all the books were gone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I turned and looked at the folks standing in the autograph line and saw a gentleman holding a stack of seven or eight books in his arms. In my most charming manner, I approached him and said with a smile, "They are out of books. Would you consider arm wrestling me for one of yours?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, dear Reader, the man did not even hesitate, but immediately handed me a book and said, "Merry Christmas!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was stunned. I protested that I would willingly pay him for it, but he declined asking me to make a donation to The Library Foundation instead. I gladly made a gift in memory of my mother. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was last in line to have Ms. Orlean sign my newly acquired copy. We chatted a bit about libraries, my mother, books, and the generosity of the man in line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it. Magical happenings in the library. Not only do I have <i>The Library Book</i> full of stories about libraries, but I also have my own story of how I came to own <i>The Library Book</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been reading, reading, reading <i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i> by Amor Towles. Although it is quite long (a little shy of 500 pages), it is definitely engaging.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Our story begins in 1922 and spans several decades. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov has been put under house arrest and is confined to the elegant Metropol Hotel in Moscow after the Russian Revolution.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Scenes of hilarity and heartbreak are interspersed with bits of history, literature, and philosophical musings. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I can recommend this as the perfect book to enjoy during the long, cold nights ahead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take your time getting to know the Count and his genteel ways. Although his circumstances are not ideal, he continues to behave as an aristocratic gentleman would and finds ways to keep up his spirits. He makes new friends and enjoys visits from old ones. He finds romance. He enjoys champagne, good food, and music. He resorts to a bit of spying and thievery — all to a good end. And he has these adventures without ever leaving the hotel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A short ABC of a few of the subjects that arise in the course of the Count's days and nights: Architecture; Bees; Catch a loose goose (how to); Dress Balls; Essays of Montaigne, Facial Hair; Gogol; Heroes; Intimacy; Jazz; Kindness; Lessons; Money (hidden); <i>Nutcracker, The;</i> Oranges; Poetry; Quests; Reading; Symphony Orchestras; Time (passage of); Uprisings; Vindication; Weather; Xenophiles; Youth; and, a game the Count devised, <i>Zut</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You get the point. There are many more ideas to keep one turning the pages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The story also offers a fascinating look at the harshness of communism after the Bolsheviks take over. It's not pretty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reading this tale put me in mind of two things. One, this quote from Franz Kafka:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">You do no</span><span style="font-size: large;">t need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other is the Canadian television series <i>Endgame</i> about a world famous Russian chess player who, traumatized from witnessing the murder of his fiancée just outside their hotel, cannot bring himself to leave the premises. He is brilliant and takes to solving mysteries without ever stepping onto the sidewalk. <i>Endgame </i>only lasted one season, which is a shame as it was witty and kept me guessing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i> is one of those books that you find intriguing while reading it, and afterwards, looking at it as a whole, you come to fully appreciate its richness and depth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since one of my literary sins (<a href="https://bellebookandcandle.blogspot.com/2018/09/id-rather-be-reading-by-anne-bogel.html">here</a>) is not having read any of the Great Russian Novelists, I feel that this story of the Count could count.</span><br />
Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-73558711066145239882018-10-05T22:21:00.000-04:002018-10-06T15:28:34.646-04:00Eight Faces at Three by Craig Rice<div style="text-align: center;">
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Reading <i>Eight Faces at Three</i> by Craig Rice is like being in one of those wonderful romantic comedy movies of the 1930s and '40s. The main characters knock back tumblers of rye whiskey, the women wear furs and silk lounging pajamas (sometimes together), and servants lurk in the scullery.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Craig Rice is the <i>nom de plume</i> of Georgiana Craig. This mystery, published in 1939, is her first. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book introduces her series' characters John J. Malone, Jake Justus, and heiress Helene Brand. The characters are likable, the dialogue is witty, and the denouement is satisfying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mystery begins with bandleader Dick Dayton and Holly Inglehart just married, but before they can begin life together she is arrested for the murder of her wealthy, and vile, Aunt Alexandria. When the police arrive at the stately home, all eight clocks in the house have stopped at 3, Aunt Alexandria's dead body is in a chair in front of her bedroom window open to the snowy night, and Holly is lying unconscious on the floor. Her fingerprints are found on the slender Florentine letter opener from her aunt's desk—now sticking out of her aunt's chest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Holly proclaims her innocence, but even she wonders if maybe she did kill her aunt in some sort of blackout or sleepwalking incident. After all, the wicked woman was ready to disinherit Holly upon hearing of her marriage. Motive for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jake, the press agent for bandleader Dick, teams up with Helene, Holly's close friend and neighbor. Enter also John J. Malone the rumpled attorney who holds his cards close to his chest, that is until the big reveal. And there you have an eager threesome on the case to prove Holly's innocence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They track clues all around Chicago - from bedroom to barroom to brothel. It's all clean fun and the action moves along at a spirited pace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">John J. Malone is as scruffy an attorney as you would ever hope to meet. Here is how Ms. Rice introduces him....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>John Joseph Malone did not look like a lawyer. A contractor, or a barkeep, or a baseball manager, perhaps. Something like that. At first sight he was not impressive. He was short, heavy - though not fat - with thinning dark hair and a red, perspiring face that grew more red and more perspiring as he talked. He was an untidy man; the press of his suits usually suggested that he had been sleeping in them, probably on the floor of a taxicab. His ties and collars never became really close friends, often not even acquaintances. Most of the buttons on his vest were undone, and almost invariably he had one shoelace undone.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Disheveled, yes, but in the courtroom he was something to behold and a force not to be reckoned with. He is the one who finally unravels the clues in this caper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are 15 books in the Malone series. A shorter series of Ms. Rice's features Bingo and Handsome, a pair of down on their</span><span style="font-size: large;"> luck business partners just trying to make a buck. She also wrote a few stand-alone mysteries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I dare you to read <i>Eight Faces at Three</i> and not get a hankering to watch any one of the screwball comedies starring handsome leading men William Powell or Cary Grant. Two of my favorites: <i>My Man Godfrey </i>and <i>His Girl Friday</i><i>.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy reading...and watching.</span></div>
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Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-15818571546121860902018-09-21T22:17:00.000-04:002018-09-21T22:17:08.240-04:00Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am not sure what to think of this book. <i>Pond</i> reads like an undated cut-and-paste diary. Or maybe it is simply the journal of a wandering mind. Scenes from the past overlap scenes in the present. All the happenings, past and present, are narrated by </span><span style="font-size: large;">an unnamed woman who is renting a cottage in a small village on the Irish coast</span><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a pond. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, just like you would dip your toe into that pond or other body of water to test it, perhaps this book is best dipped into as well. </span><span style="font-size: large;">One-page observations mix with longer chapters with titles such as "Morning, Noon & Night", "Finishing Touch", and "A Little Before Seven".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is very mysterious. </span><span style="font-size: large;">In one chapter, author Claire-Louise Bennett</span><span style="font-size: large;"> has her narrator reporting on the activities preparing for the Big Day but never really explains what the Big Day is and the narrator doesn't attend the event anyway so I guess it doesn't matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found my</span><span style="font-size: large;">self wondering: are these stories from the author's experience? What was her writing process? Did she just document daily happenings and create her narrator to share them with the reader? Did the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> author wander from room to room recording her random thoughts during the day and then spend her evenings transcribing them? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is the book the result of notebooks filled with observations of her daily life — from filling a bowl with fruit and setting it on a stone window sill to looking at the empty cereal bowl on the kitchen table and wondering if it was from today's breakfast or yesterday's? (I could so identify with that one!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This book certainly won't appeal to some. In fact, it might be maddening if you like a linear timeline and hate wild tangents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For example, in the chapter "The Deepest Sea" the narrator begins musing about the blue-black ink in her fountain pen and wonders why the green ink in the cartridge she has just inserted is not appearing on the page. This followed by a brief history of the fountain pen. Then she goes on to tell where she found the green ink cartridge — in the bottom of a shopping bag. Also discovered is a Letter — a letter she thought was in a clutch purse in her closet but all this time, since she moved into the cottage anyway, it has been in the bottom of the shopping bag. With the cartridge. And the Letter is one she hesitates to reread due to the heartbreaking nature of its contents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In another chapter, she moves from contemplating the three knobs on her cooker/oven to reflecting on a book she just read about the last woman on earth and that in one scene the woman sits at the table and counts her matches because once the matches are gone, the light will be gone, and that leads the narrator to imagine how this woman might have died and thought it quite clever of the author not to tell but to leave it to the reader to determine how she might die, this being the end of the world and all, and then it's back to the cooker and the narrator's search for replacement knobs as there is now only one knob left that isn't broken and she has to use that one to control the two top burners and the oven and what will happen when this last knob is broken and useless. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can see how this goes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You will either like this meandering or you will be totally put off. I usually prefer a straightforward narration, but I also like to read about the details (real or imagined) that make up someone's day and there are plenty of those included. And anyway, I have long thought I would do just fine living by myself in a cottage and perhaps I too would spend my days recording my random thoughts and memories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A compelling read, but like I said, very mysterious.</span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-43598619275506638022018-09-07T22:21:00.001-04:002018-09-07T22:21:49.841-04:00I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am going to recommend a book — it was just published days ago — based on three things:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. I met the author last night at an event at my neighborhood bookstore </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. The cover illustration couldn't be more perfect</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. It is a book about books</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I'd Rather Be Reading: The delights and dilemmas of the reading life</i> by Anne Bogel just came into my hands in the past 24 hours. I have not had a chance to read more than the introduction and the first entry, "Confess Your Literary Sins." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(My literary sins? I will confess a few: I am not a fan of Jane Austen and barely made it through <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>. I hated <i>Wuthering Heights</i>. I have never read any of The Great Russian Novelists.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anne Bogel is the writer behind the <i>Modern Mrs. Darcy</i> blog. She is also the voice behind the podcast <i>What Should I Read Next?</i> on which she gives book recommendations to callers based on three books they love, one book they hate, and what they are reading now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She has quite a loyal following.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All of this was new to me until last week when I read the email newsletter from Carmichael's Bookstore and caught a glimpse of the cover of IRBR. Based on that alone, I put the author event on my calendar. It was only later I discovered that Anne grew up here in Louisville and lives less than two miles from me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How have I missed her?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The event — I am so glad I went early — was standing room only. The woman sitting next to me (on the front row, of course) had come from Lexington, 90 miles away, and said she was a long-time fan of both Anne's blog and podcasts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book is not a compilation of blog posts, but contains original content. There are 21 essays within its 150 pages. There are even illustrations — always a plus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anne didn't spend too much time with opening remarks but went right to Q&A. She was funny and engaging. She loves libraries. She loves books. She loves reading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a paragraph from the introduction:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>We are readers. Books are an essential part of our lives and of our life stories. For us, reading isn't just a hobby or a pastime; it's a lifestyle. We're the kind of people who understand the heartbreak of not having your library reserves come in before you leave town for vacation and the exhilaration of stumbling upon the new Louise Penny at your local independent bookstore three whole days before the official publication date. We know the pain of investing hours of reading time in a book we enjoyed right up until the final chapter's truly terrible resolution, and we know the pleasure of stumbling upon exactly the right book at exactly the right time.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sound familiar? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know what I'll be reading this weekend. </span><br />
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Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-77918533127134750872018-08-24T21:14:00.000-04:002018-08-24T21:14:37.194-04:00 Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">After writing a few weeks ago about the hilarious diaries of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4, I was reminded by Kathy at <a href="http://www.catchinghappiness.com/">Catching Happiness</a> of another diary keeper - Bridget Jones. This humorous work by Helen Fielding is one that I missed in the '90s although I did see the movie. I mean really, who could resist a film featuring both Colin Firth and Hugh Grant? Not me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My library had a copy in ebook form and I was able to download it quickly. It begins, as does Adrian Mole's year, with a list of New Year's resolutions. Bridget's intents focus on not drinking, losing weight, quitting smoking, and not buying lottery tickets. She doesn't have much success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bridget is a 30-something single woman living in London who works for a publishing company. She has a heavy crush on her boss Daniel (a sleaze) which eventually turns into an unsatisfying relationship. </span><span style="font-size: large;">There is the enigmatic Mark Darcy lurking in the background as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The thing is, and maybe it's just my age, but for all the book's humor, Bridget's self-loathing, her focus on weight (she records her weight at the beginning of every entry), and a proclivity for breaking her promises to herself begin to wear thin. Of course, I have all sorts of journals from my younger days filled with the same railings against my fate. Perhaps that's why it feels a bit uncomfortable to read Bridget's angst-filled pages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The conversations with her female friends about men and their wicked ways are pretty funny. And her mother, who has recently left Bridget's father, now has a new lover and a new career. She flits in and out of Bridget's life and is not exactly a stable role model for her daughter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to go back and watch the film again. I think perhaps Bridget and her trials and tribulations come across better on screen. And then of course, there are Colin and Hugh to admire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I just finished another book that also looks at life from a woman's point of view: <i>Heating & Cooling</i> by Beth Ann Fennelly. This small book runs for only 107 pages and is made up of 52 micro-memoirs — many are only one or two sentences long while others are more fleshed out essays. They are at once humorous, wistful, and sometimes heartbreaking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One essay recounts how one of her neighbor's exotic hens escaped and took up residence in Ms. Fennelly's yard and offered up an egg a day as rent. Another recalls, at age 8, how she and her father and sister slogged (thanks to the blizzard of '79) </span><span style="font-size: large;">through the deep snow </span><span style="font-size: large;">to church only to find the doors locked and Sunday Mass cancelled. Then there is the two-sentence report on the contents of a friend's freezer: a bottle of vodka and a dead cat in plastic wrap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You'll just have to read the book to find out about that cat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ms. Fennelly teaches in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and is the state's poet laureate. That should give you an idea of the quality of writing here. There is not a dull verb anywhere. This is one to read again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love a book like this — brief memories captured and recorded. It reminded me of the late Amy Krouse Rosenthal's <i>Encylopedia of an Ordinary Life </i>(<a href="http://bellebookandcandle.blogspot.com/2015/05/encyclopedia-of-ordinary-life-by-amy.html">here</a>). One of my favorites and another one to be savored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What's new in your reading pile?</span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-27193698959387169262018-08-10T22:19:00.000-04:002018-08-10T22:19:29.983-04:00A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The dictionary defines your philosophy of life as your overall vision of or attitude toward life and the purpose of life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You know, your grand goal in living. Of the things in life you might pursue, which is the thing you believe to be most valuable?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One would think that as a Woman of a Certain Age I would have developed a Philosophy of Life by now. Perhaps I have only I didn't call it that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will say, though, that I have long aligned my thinking with the ancient Stoic philosophy of spending one's life trying to attain and maintain tranquility. Nowadays, who doesn't want tranquility?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To that end, when I spotted <i>A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy</i> by William B. Irvine, I thought I might add to my knowledge of Stoic wisdom. I have occasionally dipped into <i>Meditations </i>by Marcus Aurelius and the writings of Seneca and Epictetus, two other famous Roman Stoics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this book, the author presents a brief history of the founding of the Stoics under a 'stoa' in Athens and on to how Roman philosophers and thinkers made their own adaptations. He then launches into the Stoic spiritual practices used when confronted with unpleasant social relations, anger, grief, the desire for fame and fortune, old age, and death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Basically, acknowledge what you can change (your own attitudes and beliefs) and what you cannot change (other people and outside forces).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Easier said than done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I admit this book might not be for everyone. And, it is not like my usual light mystery to be read at bedtime. This is one I am reading a little of each day. I do like an intellectual challenge now and again. And with this book, one never knows what nuggets of wisdom might add to tranquility and joy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you have a grand goal in living? Or a book or philosophy that has informed what you value in life above all else? I would love to hear about it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-13396289494978710162018-07-27T22:19:00.000-04:002018-07-27T22:19:14.471-04:00The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">And you think you have problems?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pity poor Adrian Mole. At the tender age of 13¾ he is struggling with his feuding parents, the school bully, the ungrateful family dog, insensitive teachers, a broken heart, and spots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All of this and more is painstakingly, and hilariously, recorded in his daily diary entries. If you are a fan of a book in diary form, and I am, this one is for you.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am having a ball reading it and find myself laughing out loud or snorting softly at his take on his predicaments. Oh, the angst.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Adrian is often baffled by the ways of the world. (Aren't we all?) His sincerity in reporting his daily dilemmas is quite touching. All he wants is to make sense of life's perplexities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13¾</i> by the English writer Sue Townsend has been on my TBR list for years. This first one was published in 1982 and there are seven in the series concluding with <i>Adrian Mole, the Prostrate Years</i>. It seems as if every British writer picks these diaries as their favorite funny book. Now, I can see why.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a sampling of entries:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Saturday:</b><i> I shall go mad through lack of sleep! My father has banned the dog from the house so it barked outside my window all night. Just my luck! My father shouted a swear-word at it. If he's not careful he will get done by the police for obscene language. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I think the spot is a boil. Just my luck to have it where everybody can see it. I pointed out to my mother that I hadn't had any vitamin C today. She said, 'Go and buy and orange, then'. This is typical.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sunday:</b><i> Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>It is a pity there aren't any more intellectuals living round here.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wednesday:</b><i> ROYAL WEDDING DAY!!!!! </i>(Charles and Diana)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>How proud I am to be English! Foreigners must be as sick as pigs! We truly lead the world when it comes to pageantry. I must admit to having tears in my eyes when I saw all the cockneys who had stood since dawn, cheering heartily all the rich, well-dressed, famous people going by in carriages and Rolls-Royces.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sunday:</b><i> My mother has gone to a woman's workshop on assertiveness training. Men aren't allowed. I asked my father what 'assertiveness training' is. He said, 'God knows, but whatever it is, it's bad news for me'.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, this book is definitely not bad news for me. It is a delight and makes for perfect bedtime reading. What better way to end the day than with a laugh. </span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-22326285725448346172018-07-13T20:04:00.001-04:002018-07-13T20:04:15.105-04:00Off the Bookshelf<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">While waiting for Tana French's second Dublin Murder Squad book to become available at the library, I read <i>Death on Demand</i> by Carolyn Hart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Annie Laurance is the owner of Death on Demand, the mystery bookshop located on the fictional Broward's Rock Island off the coast of South Carolina. Annie runs the bookshop left to her by her Uncle Melrose and she hosts a group of the island's mystery writers that meets on Sunday nights at the shop. One of the writers has been making pronouncements about how he is going to be divulging secrets about each of the other members of the group. Before the big reveal, though, he ends up dead. The rest of the book finds Annie and her friend/old flame Max trying to prove that it wasn't Annie who killed the guy with a poisoned dart. Nice shot, though, whoever did it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The best part of the book is that it is one long reading list for mysteries both classic and contemporary. That is really the fun part of the tale. I highlighted all sorts of new titles and authors to add to my own list of ones to explore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Even though during my recovery from knee surgery I wasn't reading, that didn't stop me from buying two books while I lounged about. Well, why would it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first was <i>The Art of Expressive Collage</i> by Crystal Neubauer. I like that the artist uses found materials in her collages - vintage papers, junk mail, packaging materials, sewing patterns, sheet music, and fabric. </span><span style="font-size: large;">She has a simple style using neutral colors. Her examples and explanations of techniques and processes are clearly explained. These are not the collages of slick magazine images but contain a multitude of layers, textures, and abstract shapes. Very inspiring. And calming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My other purchase was <i>A Book That Takes Its Time</i> by the editors of <i>Flow</i> magazine. I have written about the delights of <i>Flow</i> magazine before (<a href="http://bellebookandcandle.blogspot.com/2017/11/go-with-flow.html">here</a>) and this book is filled with journals, postcards, stickers, decorative papers, and lists (we love lists!) to play with. There are articles on taking time to reflect, create, slow down, and even a poem and a recipe or two. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a creative workshop between hardcovers. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Slowly. Slowly.</span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-14336493059892978242018-06-30T21:22:00.001-04:002018-06-30T21:22:54.754-04:00In the Woods by Tana French<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finally broke my surgery and recovery induced reading fast with a doozy of a book. I am probably a little late to reading Tana French crime novels, but that just means I have six more to look forward to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>In the Woods</i> (2007) introduces the Dublin Murder Squad. The main characters are detective partners Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox. They are tasked with investigating the murder of a child on the housing estate where Rob grew up. Rob has a secret childhood trauma of his own that might or might not be germane to this current crime and his involvement in the investigation may even put the whole case in jeopardy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even though the crime here is certainly distasteful, the writing and plotting are terrific. I rolled through the book's 600 pages which gave me </span><span style="font-size: large;">plenty of time to get to know the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> main characters. (Not sure I was crazy about Rob the narrator.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once I finished, I immediately went online to my library's ebook collection to check out the second in the series. Imagine my chagrin when I saw the message that my account was blocked! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My first thought was that my card had expired. No, that wasn't it. I called and someone at the library told me that I had an unpaid overdue fine of <span style="color: red;">20 cents</span> and<span style="color: red;"> </span>my access to ebooks was now blocked. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Busted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Apparently, this is an automatic process so I didn't take it personally or feel as if I had been singled out. I mean, I know libraries are in dire financial straits, but really?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So a trip to the library to pay my <i>huge</i> fine and all is well except that there is a wait list to check out <i>Likeness,</i> the second in the Murder Squad series. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, I started reading </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Cranford</i> </span><span style="font-size: large;">by Elizabeth Gaskell. I have had it on my Kindle for a long time and while I have many times watched and enjoyed the television series that is based on three of Ms. Gaskell's novels about the fictional village, I have yet to read this first book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the not-so-nice goings on of <i>In the Woods</i>, the ladies of Cranford offer a welcome and gentler version of life with a sufficient amount of tea and cakes.</span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-43177901938147404832018-05-25T19:30:00.000-04:002018-05-25T19:30:25.315-04:00Wasted Days and Wasted Nights<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I am still here, although nothing going as far as having read any books since my surgery. This is probably the longest stretch in my reading life that I haven't had a book or books in hand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Otherwise, my recovery is going well and I appreciate all your well wishes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although I am not reading anything, I do have my eye on a couple of books. One — and I laugh as I write this — is <i>The Art of the Wasted Day</i> by Patricia Hampl. I most likely could have written a book with this title myself. Anyway, a friend who knows I am taking life slower than usual right now, heard about it on NPR and alerted me to it. My library only has two copies and I am number six on the reserve list for the hardcover book and next up for the ebook. It is noted as 'a spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sounds right up my alley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The second book is <i>The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners</i> by Margaret Visser. I could kick myself — albeit with my good leg — for missing the deeply discounted sale of the ebook. My parents were both sticklers for table manners and I thought this might prove to be a fun read. It</span><span style="font-size: large;"> was originally published in 1991 and reissued last year.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">As my library doesn't have a single copy, I will keep my eye out for it to show up again on the cheap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Has anyone read either of these books? Should I be looking further afield in search for a book to break my reading fast?</span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-43623179496687925782018-05-01T19:10:00.001-04:002018-05-01T19:10:55.954-04:00In Which I Begin to Slowly Recover<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Readers,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Wow! I had no idea it would take me four weeks after surgery to get to the point of being able to think well enough to get back to my computer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A heartfelt thank you to all for your kind comments and thoughts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The surgery went well. It is the aftermath that has been a struggle. Reaction to anesthesia and pain medication knocked me down! My days have been a constant ding-ding of alarms reminding me to take a pill, eat, use ice, hydrate, nap, do exercises, take another pill, and prepare for the physical therapist's visits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is no rest in the rest home!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, I have not been up to even the gentle challenge of reading. Yeah. Things have been that bad. But, I do feel the brain fuzz beginning to clear and wanted to let you know that I was recovering, albeit, slowly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was trying to think of a book that would parallel my situation and recalled <i>Adventures in Solitude</i> by David Grayson in which he muses on many subjects while recovering from an illness. I wrote about it and two of his other books on April 23, 2013. Who would have thought that five years later I would be in need of the comfort and companionship of a fellow convalescent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, until I can get my reading legs under me, you can read about that book here: <a href="http://bellebookandcandle.blogspot.com/2013/04/adventures-in-solitude-by-david-grayson.html">Adventures in Solitude</a></span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-58428701213667878952018-04-03T22:00:00.000-04:002018-04-03T22:00:34.205-04:00In Which Belle Goes to Hospital<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Uh-oh. Looks like my Wabi-Sabi age has caught up with me. I am scheduled to have knee surgery on Wednesday, April 4. I will be taking short break from <i>Belle, Book, and Candle</i> until I recover enough to be able to think and type!</span></div>
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Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-65921570616193413982018-03-30T21:04:00.000-04:002018-03-30T21:04:24.810-04:00Murders in Volume 2 by Elizabeth Daly<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I read somewhere recently that American mystery writer Elizabeth Daly was one of Agatha Christie's favorites. Ms. Daly published sixteen books starring amateur sleuth Henry Gamadge between 1940 and 1951.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What makes Henry Gamadge such an attractive character is that he is an expert in rare books and manuscripts. He lives in a multi-storied house in New York City, has a cook and a butler, and is helped in his investigations by his shy assistant. Gamadge is in his mid-30s and has Old World sensibilities. I liked him.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Murders in Volume 2 </span></i><span style="font-size: large;">was my introduction to him. Because I have never been good at reading between the lines, I must admit I had a little trouble following some of the dialogue - which may have been due to birthday cake overdose - but by the end I felt that it was a good solid story. The plot has to do with a family inheritance, a missing volume of Lord Byron's poetry, spiritualists, theater folk, an impostor, and murder. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, murder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because I am a sucker for descriptions of desks and workspaces, this</span><span style="font-size: large;"> passage caught my eye:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>This seemed to be Miss Vauregard's workroom. A small, curly desk which Gamadge thought must be the first and only one she had ever had was littered with bills, address books, laundry lists and canceled checks. There was a little ancient typewriter on a table in front of a window, with telephone directories piled on the floor beside it. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And these lines, describing a friend of Gamadge's, made me laugh out loud:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The young man seemed more disheveled than he actually was. He was a type whose lumbering bigness requires continual valeting.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was the third book in the series. I like to read a series in order to watch the characters develop, but this was the first one that was available in my library's ebook collection. Based on this example, I think there will be more Henry Gamadge mysteries in my future.</span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-38552835777765309042018-03-23T18:00:00.000-04:002018-03-23T18:00:29.510-04:00Aging Happens<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will be celebrating my birthday in a few days. It is yet another one that ends in Zero. I am entering the Wabi Sabi phase of life. You know — the Japanese idea that having a few years and a few imperfections only adds to my beauty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In keeping with that, I picked up a book at the library by Thomas Moore titled </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Ageless Soul</i>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The flyleaf promises a "fresh, optimistic, and rewarding path toward aging, a journey that need not be feared, but rather should be embraced and cherished."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I haven't begun reading this one yet, but having read other books by Mr. Moore, I am sure to glean some wisdom on celebrating another birthday with grace and good spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You would think that at this stage of my life I would have figured out how to manage my time. On most days I do a good job - although I must admit that Procrastination can be my superpower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just like books and articles and tips on decluttering and simplifying, I love reading how to manage time efficiently and am always looking for ways to save time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know I am not alone in this pursuit. On Monday, I attended a full-house presentation by Laura Vanderkam put on by a local healthcare group. I have attended and written about a couple of these seminars starring Peter Walsh, Gretchen Rubin, and others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ms. Vanderkam is an author and time management expert. She took the stage and I could tell right away she was going to give a terrific talk. She was all smiles and energy. She has studied the schedules of successful people and her presentation covered her seven favorite strategies for managing the 168 hours a week we all have to spend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, I am going to briefly share them with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. <b>Mind your hours</b> - Look at where your time is going. She keeps a written spreadsheet schedule set up in 30 minute increments, but she says there are also computer/phone apps that will help with this. </span><span style="font-size: large;">She suggests doing this for work hours and leisure hours.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Once you see where you are spending your time, you can begin to determine what you like most about your schedule, what you want to do more of, and what you want to get off your plate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2.<b> Look forward</b> - We build the lives we want and then time saves itself, she says. Her suggestion is to list anything you want to spend time doing and goals you want to achieve both personally and professionally this year. Then pretend it is the end of 2018 and give yourself a performance review. What three amazing things came about in your personal life? In your professional life? These are your top priorities for the year. Post the list prominently where you will see it every day. This list will inform your choices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. <b>First things first</b> - Fill your life with things that deserve to be there. Time will stretch to accommodate what you choose to put into it. We live our lives in weeks, not days, she says. Take Friday afternoon and think through the coming week. List the top three priorities in your career, your personal life, and your own self care. Get as many of them scheduled at the first of the week as you can because stuff will come up to throw your week into a tailspin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4.<b> Move time around</b> - Perhaps you can schedule a split shift which means you work in the morning, go to your kid's soccer game in the afternoon, and then do work in the evening. This doesn't have to happen every day, but if you have the flexibility to do this once or twice a week, take advantage of work/life integration. Same goes for exercise or reading - the time is there. Stop looking for the perfect time each day to go to the gym or play in your sketchbook. Things don't have to happen daily or at the same time. Look at your week and choose. View time more holistically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5. <b>Build in space</b> - Leaving space in your week invites opportunity in a way a cluttered calendar can't. Be careful with the word 'yes'. Do a calendar triage. What's already on your calendar? What do you really <i>not</i> want to do? What can you minimize - have shorter meetings? Make a phone call instead of holding a meeting? What can you outsource?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6. <b>Monitor your energy</b> - Make time, not just take time, to exercise and sleep. Your brain needs breaks. Falling down the internet rabbit hole is a fake break. What can you put into your workdays and weekends that will add to your energy level and rejuvenate you? Be productive about scheduling leisure time. Think about it intentionally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7. <b>Use bits of time</b> - Five minutes here, ten minutes there add up. Take these bits of time to do something that adds joy to your day: read a few pages in a book or magazine, step outside and breathe, talk to someone face-to-face, look at the clouds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I admit I have over the years incorporated many of these suggestions, I just didn't have a name for them. As a freelance writer I have to pay attention to how I schedule my time. But as someone who works from home, a lot of my time gets frittered away. Actually, I am OK with that. My brain breaks include staring out the window, having a cup of tea and a cookie, or maybe a short phone conversation. Oh, and naps are a top priority!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One suggestion that she gave to a recently retired woman during the Q&A time that I found especially helpful was to compress what you have to do in a chunk of time (e.g., run all your errands on Tuesday morning) and schedule what you want to do during the rest of the week. I have a tendency to do chores and run errands willy-nilly when I think of them. It feels as if I am always doing maintenance tasks so I am going to pay special attention to this tip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There you go. No more excuses. Pick one of her suggestions to start with and see how it works for you. Then you can try another one. I bet they will make your life more blessed and less stressed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ms. Vanderkam has several books out including <i>I Know How She Does It - How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time</i>; and <i>168 Hours - You Have More Time Than You Think</i>. Her latest, to be published in May, is <i>Off the Clock - Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are interested in seeing Ms. Vanderkam in action, here is a link to one of her <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_vanderkam_how_to_gain_control_of_your_free_time">TED Talks</a>.</span></div>
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Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-11166566421331479772018-03-09T21:35:00.000-05:002018-03-09T21:35:13.571-05:00Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer<div style="text-align: center;">
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All of a sudden, my library added all twelve of Georgette Heyer's mysteries to its ebook collection. I started my own collection of the paperback editions with their delightful covers a few years ago and currently have six. I have read several of them and was happy to be able to download one I didn't have -<i> Death in the Stocks. </i></span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the first in a series of mysteries, set in the 1930s, starring Superintendent Hannasyde from New Scotland Yard. He has his work cut out for him. The suspects don't appear to want to help prove their innocence, but rather add to the confusion by coming up with their own motives and guilty parties or fudging on their own alibis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the dead body of Arnold Vereker is found imprisoned in the stocks on Ashleigh G</span><span style="font-size: large;">reen with a knife in his back, suspects abound. There is Kenneth who stands to inherit his half-brother's fortune. Kenneth's fiancée, Violet, is a bit of a gold-digger so she certainly had motive. Or perhaps the murderer is Kenneth's sister Antonia who was in the village the night of the murder and had a bone to pick with Arnold. Another suspect is Antonia's fiancé Rudolph Mesurier who was chief accountant for the dead man's firm and was caught 'borrowing' funds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But then again, one can't discount Arnold's brother</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Roger who was presumed dead but shows up just in time to collect his inheritance thereby shoving aside Kenneth who was first in line for the loot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a second murder (I love a second murder - it sweetens the pot!), the truth comes out and the case ends up being solved by Giles Carrington, solicitor for the dead man. Giles is in love with Antonia so he has a vested interest in keeping her out of jail and helping to find the real murderer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One really can't go wrong with Georgette Heyer mysteries. The stories are deftly plotted, the characters are amusing, and the conversations sparkle. Plus, the book covers are gorgeous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perfect bedtime reading.</span></div>
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Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-15915780158122201672018-03-02T21:10:00.000-05:002018-03-02T21:10:24.959-05:00The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because I am such a fan of Bill Bryson, I have no idea why it took me so long to set about reading <i>The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid</i>. This is an affectionate memoir of the author's childhood in the 1950s and '60s in Des Moines, Iowa. Both his parents worked for the newspaper there - his dad was a sports writer and his mom wrote a lifestyle column - so writing is in his genes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He tells the tale with much humor - and I suspect just a touch or maybe a wallop of exaggeration - about his boyhood escapades and adventures - many of which did not resonate with me. For example, unlike him, I did not spend three summers wanting to go to the live strip show at the state fair. Nor did I ever imagine myself as coming from another planet. Nor did I have friends who experimented with gunpowder and homemade cannons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What did resonate were his descriptions of what was going on in those decades and the amount of rapid change that was seen in America: color television; the Red Scare and the McCarthy hearings; learning to read with <i>Dick and Jane </i>books;<i> </i>morning and afternoon editions of the local newspaper; Sputnik and the space race; the polio epidemic; the Cuban missile crisis; major league baseball games played in the afternoon; and, of course, the threat of nuclear war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He also recounts with sadness the eventual loss of downtown department stores, locally owned businesses and restaurants, small family farms, glorious movie theaters with bigger-than-life screens, and small amusement parks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have seen many of those same changes in my own hometown. His description of one of Des Moines's great 'ocean liner of a department store' brought to mind visits with my mother to Stewart's Department Store in downtown Louisville.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> In those days, w</span><span style="font-size: large;">e always dressed up to go shopping downtown.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Stewart's boasted The Orchid Room, a restaurant on the sixth floor where we would enjoy a lunch of fresh fruit salad accompanied by little finger sandwiches of date-nut bread and cream cheese. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the spectacular features of the store was that every spring shoppers were greeted by a woman in a swing that hung from the tall ceiling right as they entered through the revolving glass door. Flowers twined around the ropes of the swing and the young woman always wore a pastel pink or blue or green full-skirted dress. Believe me, the sight was a marvel to behold. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You won't find such elegance in Target or Walmart!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After reading Alice Hoffman's <i><a href="http://bellebookandcandle.blogspot.com/2018/02/practical-magic-by-alice-hoffman.html">Practical Magic</a></i>, I rented the movie to see just how Hollywood handled the story. The film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as the sisters Sally and Gillian did manage to hit most of the highlights of the novel. My favorite characters were The Aunts played by Stockard Channing and Diane Wiest. Both woman had the most enchanting outfits (well, they were witches after all) and terrific hats. And as often happens, the movie's ending was very different from the book's. All in all, though, it was pleasant to watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What have you been reading or watching this week?</span></div>
Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-74896456647284925912018-02-23T21:22:00.000-05:002018-02-24T12:59:05.150-05:00Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman<div style="text-align: center;">
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I like a bit of magic. Not hardcore magic of boiled lizard tongues and scavenged feathers of a raven, but the gentle magic of scented herbs to keep away misfortune or the use of crystals to bring good luck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is some of both in <i>Practical Magic</i> by Alice Hoffman. It is the story of the Owens sisters Sally and Gillian. They come from a long line of women with special powers. Men fall in love with their beauty in a heartbeat. Fortune and misfortune follow them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The two young sisters go to live with The Aunts after their parents die. The sisters are about as opposite as can be. Sally the older one is dark-haired and sensible and conscientious. Gillian is blonde and rebellious and idle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Aunts call them Night and Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The story follows the sisters growing up, finding love, and losing love. Then, after 18 years apart, when Gillian shows up on Sally's doorstep with a desperate secret, it becomes the story of how the sisters come together to handle the consequences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Be forewarned: In contrast to the rhythmic language, there are rough words and episodes of violence which I found to be quite jarring. Perhaps that was the point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a vague memory of reading this book when it first was published in 1995, and I recall seeing the 1998 movie with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. I have rented the DVD and am ready to watch it again now that I have finished the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wanted to reread <i>Practical Magic</i> upon hearing that <i>Rules of Magic</i> was published last October. It is Ms. Hoffman's story of The Aunts, their mother Susannah, and how they came into their powers. I have now moved up to #8 on the library's reserve list for the book. I will eventually write about it here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, here is a sample of gentle counsel from <i>Practical Magic</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection. Blue shoes or a blue dress. A sweater the color of a robin's egg or a scarf the shade of heaven. A thin satin ribbon, carefully threaded through the white lace hem of a slip. Any of these will do. But if a candle burns blue, that is something else entirely, that's no luck at all, for it means there's a spirit in your house. And if the flame should flicker, then grow stronger each time the candle is lit, the spirit is settling in. Its essence is wrapping around the furniture and the floorboards, it's claiming the cabinets and the closets and will soon be rattling windows and doors.</span></div>
Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148557807474310110.post-17002195545356494502018-02-16T20:47:00.002-05:002018-02-16T20:47:38.299-05:00Best Detective Stories by Cyril Hare<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't be put off by the bland cover of <i>Best Detective Stories</i> by Cyril Hare. There are treasures within. Thirty delicious tales of mistaken identity (and murder), legal shenanigans (and murder), slow-burning revenge (and murder), trickery (and murder), robbery (and murder). Oh, and did I mention murder?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How could I not love a book by an author with the name Cyril Hare? Actually, that is a pseudonym for British judge and crime writer Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark. He was born in 1900 and died just shy of his 58th birthday. He published nine mystery novels, one children's book, almost 40 short stories, a radio play, and two stage plays. Quite an output.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many of his short mysteries appeared in the 1950s in London's <i>Evening Standard</i>. We are fortunate to have so many of them collected here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Joan at <a href="http://www.planetjoan.blogspot.com/">Planet Joan</a> put Cyril Hare on my radar. My library doesn't have a single one of his books, but I discovered a few Kindle editions on Amazon. This book of short mysteries was only 99 cents. In case you are interested, there are three of his crime novels available as ebooks as well. Two of those will run you a whopping $1.99 each. For some reason, his most famous book, <i>Tragedy at Law,</i> is $2.09. Still, it's a bargain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I plan on trying one or two of his full-length mysteries. I am sure they are as entertaining as his short crime tales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These stories are all written with a light touch. After reading the first few you know there is going to be a twist, but darned if you will be able to figure it out beforehand. Some are written in the first person and some are told by a third-person narrator. No matter who is telling the story, there is always a touch of wry humor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are the perfect mysteries to read at night before turning out the light. </span>Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.com4