A man rushes through the doorway to the shop, clutching his throat & dying in a pool of blood. When David approaches Elizabeth to interrogate her, she stares into his icy blue eyes, stunned she'd agreed to #date him.
There are 2 new library books burning a hole in my Kindle—so, Monday afternoon, if you could just be on your way. #books#read#kindle#library@bookstodon
This is an astonishingly beautiful novella, set in a 1930's Chicago that has mystical elements hiding in plain sight.
One part sapphic romance, another part supernatural sleuth story, and another "it's complicated" family drama, I simply couldn't put this 130 page book down once I got going.
Darkness is explored - both of the human variety and the demonic - but the entire piece ultimately glows with hope.
Recommendations for a good printed world atlas, with vegetation zones and the like in addition to physical and political geography? Cartographical execution should be good quality! Preferrably recent, can be fairly expensive but not looking for something insanely collectible. Languages English or Swedish. #cartography#books
"In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder."
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was born #OTD in 1892. In 1938, she became the 1st American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich & truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
The Overstory, by Richard Powers: you are one of 8 or so main characters, all obsessed with trees for very different reasons and variously aware of the disappearance of trees from the planet and what that portends for life. 4 of 5 library cats. 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈