And here we go in another year.
We woke up to three inches of new fallen snow. The boys were absolutely lovin' it, running around in it. It's been mild today and supposed to continue so for the next couple days so it may not last. It is supposed to cold this weekend though.
As you know, I keep track of what I read. I don't know why exactly, maybe just superstition, I think the first book completed in a new year sort of sets the tone. Last year I read THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB by Will Schwalbe. It was sad, yes, but also a love story between mother and son and their mutual love of reading. I've been having problems settling on a book in the last couple days but knowing the import of the first book, I turned to nonfiction.
I'm currently reading BOOKS: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry. Here is a description:
BOOKS is a memoir that traces McMurtry's life stages through his relationship with books--thousands and thousands of them, those in the library of the university he attended, those in his personal library (upwards of 30,000 volumes), those in his used and antiquarian bookstore Booked Up (300,000 and counting). Books have enriched his inner life and helped him hone his skills as an author. But they've also enriched his economic existence too, since he's been in the used book trade for nearly half a century now (something I didn't know until reading this memoir). His first book sale in 1962, for example, paid for his first son's birth. Here at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself: as a boy growing up in a largely “bookless” world, as a young man devouring the world of literature, as a fledgling writer and family man, and above all as one of America’s most prominent “bookmen.”
Here
at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself: as a boy growing
up in a largely “bookless” world, as a young man devouring the world of
literature, as a fledgling writer and family man, and above all as one
of America’s most prominent “bookmen.” - See more at:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Books/Larry-McMurtry/9781416583356#sthash.AiZXjpKd.dpuf
Here
at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself: as a boy growing
up in a largely “bookless” world, as a young man devouring the world of
literature, as a fledgling writer and family man, and above all as one
of America’s most prominent “bookmen.” - See more at:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Books/Larry-McMurtry/9781416583356#sthash.AiZXjpKd.dpuf
Here
at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself: as a boy growing
up in a largely “bookless” world, as a young man devouring the world of
literature, as a fledgling writer and family man, and above all as one
of America’s most prominent “bookmen.” - See more at:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Books/Larry-McMurtry/9781416583356#sthash.AiZXjpKd.dpuf
Here
at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself: as a boy growing
up in a largely “bookless” world, as a young man devouring the world of
literature, as a fledgling writer and family man, and above all as one
of America’s most prominent “bookmen.” - See more at:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Books/Larry-McMurtry/9781416583356#sthash.AiZXjpKd.dpuf
Here
at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself: as a boy growing
up in a largely “bookless” world, as a young man devouring the world of
literature, as a fledgling writer and family man, and above all as one
of America’s most prominent “bookmen.” - See more at:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Books/Larry-McMurtry/9781416583356#sthash.AiZXjpKd.dpuf
Published in 2008, it has 274 pages. My only disappointment is that I wish it was more about his reading life than his book scouting life.I don't really believe in "resolutions" but I do have some intentions for the new year. I will continue in my previous intention of wanting to read at least one nonfiction book a month. I would like to journal every day (I will probably fail in the every day part per usual). And I would like to make this a year of extreme self care.
Steve has shooting tonight and will be showing off his new acquisition(s) to his fellow gun lovers. I will probably read. Tomorrow ... back to work. Sigh.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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