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Each morning I awaken to find my bedside books piled in a different order than the night before; each is fighting for ‘pride of place’, hoping to be the next one I will read!

My bookshelves are small and mostly gardening books.

Here is my saying for my books: "I am but a mystery under the sea, I am but a beauty when you plant my seeds."

I have a small house and an affinity for old dictionaries. Hence my reference book end table. And yes, War and Peace is there merely because it fit. No, I haven’t read it.

Here are the books I'm reading so far while staying in place:
Go Like Hell, A. J. Baime  (FPL adult collection)
The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (FPL adult collection)
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Reckless at the Border (a newly…

Started reading the Decameron written in 1348 during the Black plague. 100 stories in 10 days. Amazing!

You might notice that my bookshelves do not only shelve books. There is an airplane, the box with the remains of our beloved cat Jane, some artwork from a friend that we haven’t hung up yet, and some unidentified stuffed toy. Bookshelves in our house…

Which you would never know from looking at the stacks of books in my house that are NOT on bookshelves!

Here are another couple of shelves of books. If you look closely you’ll see quite a few books by Maira Kalman, and if you look even closer you’ll see a series of books about the Stettheimer sisters. Reynolds Price sits not far from John Cheever,…