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Saturday, July 26, 2014

What's on Your Nightstand?

Posted on 6:14 AM by jimmy

As in books, I mean...What are you reading?





 (There's usually so much stuff on my nightstand  I have to scoot things over





 to find a place to charge my phone...) ~





Any good old-fashioned page-turning hold-in-your-hands books?





Or do you read on your tablet or phone or Kindle-thingy?





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I know they're not all the newest releases,





but here are mine for now...





I haven't started any of them, so I welcome "reviews"!





~





The Time Traveler's Wife; Audrey Niffennegger





Little Altars Everywhere; Rebecca Wells





Proof of Heaven; Dr.Eben Alexander, M.D.





Andrew's Brain; E.L. Doctorow





Maud; Richard Lee Strout





~





"Maud" was actually released in 1939; a compilation of the diaries of Miss Maud Rittenhouse,





a young socialite in the 1880s in Cairo, Illinois...





My husband's family was from Cairo, and over the years I've heard this book





mentioned several times...this one or that one was a subject in the "Maud-Book"...





that scandalous book!





When researching The Cairo City Cemetery for my other blog, I came across





some of Miss Rittenhouse's family and decided I was going to track down a copy





of "The Book"... I found mine online through Alibris Books, a very fine seller.





So, now...I'll see what all the fuss is about.





Stay tuned!





In the meantime, I'm going to finish a Faerie-House commission and paint today,





but first I'm going to link my pink "Naked Lady" lilies (previous post)





 to Beverly's Pink Saturday...





Hop on over and see all the "pink", and wish Beverly a Happy Birthday!





Have a great day, everyone!





BTW, the "watercolor" edit of the photo of my nightstand is by JixiPix Software;




it's called Aquarella, and it's fun and user-friendly (if I can do it, it's very friendly)!








Love,





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