On My Library Table - Ex Libris I

There was always going to be a book page here, and Sunday seems a good day for such a page. How could one live without books? No television for me, thank you very much (although I do tuck something in the VCR or DVD player occasionally), but the books are staying, each and every one of them. Life (and contentment) can be measured in cups of tea and stacks of reading material on the old oak libary table, particularly in winter, and nothing makes me quite as happy as having several books heaped up there, waiting to be opened for the first time, the second time, or even the third time. Among other things (keys, reading glasses, bus fare, leaky pens, journals, hats and gloves), the library table contains the following books at the moment, and what a lovely pile it is (although a few are repeat performers).

Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden, Diane Ackerman
A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
Deep Play, Diane Ackerman
Wind Cloud, Martha Glessing
In Every Moon There Is a Face, Arlene Graston
The Fruitful Darkness, Joan Halifax
The Ice Queen, Alice Hoffman
Dwellings, Linda Hogan
The Zen of Creativity, John Daido Loori
The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, Tim Pratt
The Smile of a Ghost, Phil Rickman
The Secret Supper, Javier Sierra (Advance Reading Copy)
Sweeping Changes, Gary Thorpe
Signs & Wonders, Marina Warner
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In the weeks ahead, there are plans to tackle rereads of Laurie R. King's Beekeeper's Apprentice/Mary Russell novels, the complete works of Joanne Harris and Alice Hoffman, Sharyn McCrumb's entire Ballad series and the complete Rev. Merrily Watkins series by Phil Rickman. Since I already have them all in hard cover, there is no need to go out in the snow to find them, and that is a good thing as we are getting rather snowed in up here. I do need a few more bookcases, but that will have to wait until Spring arrives.