books

"When you create things you become alive. When you create beautiful things, you don’t want to die. You don’t think about death. You think ab...

Making my way through the World of Peter Rabbit books! Beatrix Potter's drawings are so beautiful. I need very gentle and comforting things ...

Nan Shepherd My favorite quotes from Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain , her exquisite book about the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland: No, ...

Early birthday gifts. I bought the El Sur blu-ray for myself. It includes the Adelaida Garcia Morales novella the film is based on. A friend...

Today, I finished Ray Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man . Some of the stories in it are now all-time favorites: Kaleido...

I had to have this beautiful hardcover edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince . This book makes me weep every time I read i...

I finished Tove Jansson's The Summer Book on this summer solstice. It's about a grandmother and her granddaughter spending the summer togeth...

A year ago, this was my mother's last full day of life. Looking back, I now know this was the eve of her death. I started reading a biograph...

Tonight, I finished Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince ! I'd never read it before. It touched my heart so much. I think it was the...