My loving husband who knows me oh so well emailed me this a couple of days ago.
It is stunning.
All the walls? Shelves. Stairs? Shelves. The outside walls? Shelves. Frigging everywhere.
Also cool? The design.
It kind of spirals inward and you can just follow this path of bookish bliss. The idea was to make a place that [...]
The Book: Drowning Ruth, by Christina Schwarz
The Story: Amanda is this young nurse and she goes home to help her sister, Mathilda, with her new daughter, Ruth.
A year later, Mathilda is dead and Amanda is raising Ruth.
Hopping from present to past to the night Mathilda died, this story pieces together what happened that night and [...]
*Sigh*
I love this.
I think that usually when this happens, I’m reading Anne Lamott. Sometimes I think she is in my brain somehow.
Who does this for you?
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life, by Paul C. Nagel
Let me just start by saying that this was not one of the biographies that I was really excited about. After reading John Adams, I kind of thought that I had a pretty basic idea of JQA’s life and thought this would be [...]
Ok, so this is wonderful and will look great on you as you head off to that last Harry Potter movie.
Awesome, right? Here’s the link so you can go buy one.
When you’re done doing that, go check out the derby it won. The theme was “I <3 books” and the entries are phenomenal.
The Book: Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy
The Story: When she was really young (9 or 10 I think) Lucy was diagnosed with a pretty horrible form of cancer. No one ever really told her flat out what was going on, but what she knew was that she had to go to the hospital [...]
This site, Room6, is lovely. This is not the only adorable thing they have. Go check it out.
(Psst…. there’s a girl one too, for all you folks with girl children.)
Have you guys seen today’s Woot shirt yet?
It is perfectly adorable and book related.
Are you not in love?
I must have it.
If you aren’t familiar, Woot shirts are 10 dollars on the day that they are introduced and are bumped up to 15 for as long as they stay in The Reckoning… so if you’re gonna [...]
The Book: House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III
The Story: There’s a lot going on here, so I’m going to just keep it simple.
Kathy lives in this house with her boyfriend who is kind of a jerk. He leaves her and all she really has is this house. Also she sucks at checking [...]
As a former Girl Scout, I pretty much peed in my pants when I saw this:
Aww! Right?
Then I read the description:
The requirements for this badge are simply that you read to your children, which sounds easy enough, right? But I bet you never thought you would read the same book so many times that you [...]