New books:
I thought this section was going to be blank this week, but thanks to Sunday deliveries in the lead up to Christmas (a simple pleasure, really.) here’s what arrived. Books that seem to wildly contradict the very frustrating reading/blogging rut I seem to be in. Or maybe old Dosty could prove just the cure!
Marginalia
I started on my summer project this week. Cataloguing, on LibraryThing of course, all my, and my sisters, old childhood books. We didn’t keep all of our children’s books, but there are still at least three very large boxes to go through. I’ve already found some old favourites, rediscovered long forgotten stories that captured my imagination as a young’n and had some fun looking through the old books. We’ve even got a tattered old copy of one of my Dad’s old childhood books! So many memories come rushing back while going through these books, so many hours spent in their pages, I can only hope that one day my current library will provide the same rush of fond nostalgia.
Book Loot, December 2010, Essays, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Orwell, The Idiot
Miss your updates! How goes your cataloging efforts? I’m too afraid to get my childhood books (Sweet valleys, babysitter’s club) out of the boxes in the garage.