This book was so good I read it twice through immediately! Book Love, by Debbie Tung is a collection of her cartoons that explain exactly what it is like to be a reader! A rainy day is perfect for reading. So is a sunny day. There is never any question as to whether or not go to the bookstore. Having lots of books on your 'to be read' pile is a source of comfort. Books are a way to travel in space and time as well as just across the country or around the world. Books bring back wonderful memories. Seriously folks, if you love to read, don't miss this book!

I seem to be doing a fair amount of reading of books about books, or about readers and this continued with Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman. I enjoyed it, for the most part (we disagree on a few things), and especially liked the essay on how to organize books (and the dreadful story when a friend of a friend hired a decorator and came home to find their library had been organized by color), or how to combine collections when a reader marries a reader. My favorite though, might be the one on the book Ms. Fadiman was given when her first child was born. It was a book that had belonged to her great-grandmother (so it was written in the 1860's or thereabouts). It was a book about women. And wives. And mothers. Written by a priest! She read it again when her second child was born, and will pass it on to her daughter on the birth of her first child.

Reading Hermit With Dog