The chair to sit in...

while contemplating the end of summer...

carved images and alphabet i created for an exchange a few years back

'It's because I have lots of books."

Apologies to my Facebook friends where I first posted this. I can't help it. It tickles me so.

I defy you to resist this Very Pink Articulate Preschooler Book-Lover.  Uh...yah!

https://youtu.be/A7UAfDIWeh4

She sounds a lot like our book club conversations!  In fact, we have each brought some possible titles for the next year to our gathering. Now we each have a month to do some research.  We'll choose ten titles from among these gems. Anybody out there have some thoughts on books from the list we should not miss? or otherwise? Would love to hear any opinions as part of my "research!"

1. CINDER by Marissa Marr...young adult
2. I'LL GIVE YOU THE SUN by Jandy Nelson...young adult
3. LANGUAGE ARTS by Stephanie Kallos
4. MAISIE DOBBS by Jacqueline Winspear
5. DEAR THEO memoir by Vincent Van Gogh
6. MRS. POE by Lynn Cullen (mystery/historical fiction)
7. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins (mystery)
8. LANDLINE by Rainbow Rowell (science fiction time travel to past)
9. NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH by Richard Flannagan (Australian “War and Peace”)
10. FEARLESS by Eric Blehm (military fiction)
11. AMERICANAH by Chimamanda Adichie (Nigerian)
12. THE MARTIAN by Andy Weir (science fiction)
13. THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS by Elizabeth Gilbert
14. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS by David McCullough (sp?)
15. THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY by Gabrielle Zevin
16. SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN by Kate Walbert
17. WEST WITH THE NIGHT by Beryl Markham (memoir)
18. CIRCLING THE SUN by Paula McLain (ficitonal account of Beryl Markham)
19. THE DAY THE WORLD CAME TO TOWN by Jim deFede
20. EXODUS by Leon Uris
21. DEAD WAKE by Erik Larson (sinking of the Lusitania)
22. H IS FOR HAWK by Helen MacDonald
23. IN DEFENSE OF ELITISM by William A. Henry, III
24. THE CLOUD ATLAS by Liam Callahan (It's not THAT Cloud Atlas from recent movie fame)
25. THE PIANO TUNER by Daniel Mason
26. THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS by Kiran Desai
27. THE DINNER by Herman Koch
28. IN THE GARDEN OF THE BEASTS by Eric Larson
29. THE UNIVERSE VERSUS ALEX WOODS by Gavin Extence
30. SHIRLEY by Susan Scarf Merrell
31. THE SECRET OF MAGIC by Deborah Johnson

A Day in Bratislava

We interrupt Box o' Stuff to share what I've been working on for a few days.

A Day in Bratislava. Regular version.



https://youtu.be/oecMpuwugvg

A quickie version:




https://youtu.be/j1o_WR7koXI

I used Photos (iPhoto), Photoshop Elements, and PicMonkey to play with images and put this together. I enjoy the process and relive the experience. I am progressing through a long and lovely journey one day at a time and completely out of order. Going where the muse takes me!

I have also added these to my web site where they will live.

Box o' stuff. Part 2. .

This has been sitting in my "to send" box for a few days. Wondering what else I had planned to put there. Oh well. You should enjoy this now and wait no longer.
I saw a peacock ...



https://youtu.be/PAkQsePo2Bo

Brainpickings.org led me to this; see other interesting illustrative takes on familiar stories here