Sunday, January 15, 2006

On My Library Table - Ex Libris II

A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
The Folk of the Air, Peter Beagle
Tamsin, Peter Beagle
Little, Big, John Crowley
The Conjuror's Bird, Martin Davies
Forests of the Heart, Charles de Lint
Moonheart, Charles de Lint
Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand
The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway
Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
Godstalk (Trilogy), P.C. Hodgell
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art, David Lewis-Williams
The City, Not Long After, Pat Murphy
I Opened the Gate, Laughing, Mayumi Oda
The Woodwife, Terri Windling

There are friends old and new in the stacks of reading material on the library table this week, and the thought of curling up with any one of these books in the evenings ahead is almost too delightful for words. It is far too cold for rambling in the Lanark woods right now, so during the next few days, I shall be rambling in this forest made of books. In the words of John Crowley, "the further in you go, the bigger it gets".

Last week, I began rereading Laurie R. King's Beekeeper's Apprentice/Mary Russell novels, the works of Joanne Harris and Alice Hoffman, Sharyn McCrumb's Ballad series and the Rev. Merrily Watkins novels by Phil Rickman. That happy voyage continues.

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