BW39: Autumn

 

Happy Sunday!  Autumn slipped in while I was busy elsewhere. We are in the those in between days when the weather doesn't know what it wants to do.  I'm still plugging away reading Robin Hobb in the realm of the Elderling series with The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy.   I'll miss all the characters after finishing the last two books.  As with other multiple books series, I'll be sure to revisit them down the road.  Midway through Fool's Quest at the moment and just go to an exciting part and almost forgot to write my post for this coming week.  LOL! 

It time to delve into Autumn books as well as prepare for our Spooktacular read  for the month of October.  More on that next week! 

Autumnal Reads by Halcyon Days of Summer

Clean Fall Reads: Cozy Books to Read This Autumn

34 Books You Need to Read This Fall

 Fall in Love: 14 Cozy Autumn Romance Reads

Happy Reading! 

BW38: On an Apple Ripe September Morning

 

Happy Sunday! We are on vacation and traveling home today so will leave you with a Poem for your pleasure.

On an apple-ripe September morning

Through the mist-chill fields I went

With a pitch-fork on my shoulder

Less for use than for devilment.

The threshing mill was set-up, I knew,

In Cassidy’s haggard last night,

And we owed them a day at the threshing

Since last year. O it was delight

To be paying bills of laughter

And chaffy gossip in kind

With work thrown in to ballast

The fantasy-soaring mind.

As I crossed the wooden bridge I wondered

As I looked into the drain

If ever a summer morning should find me

Shovelling up eels again.

And I thought of the wasps’ nest in the bank

And how I got chased one day

Leaving the drag and the scraw-knife behind,

How I covered my face with hay.

The wet leaves of the cocksfoot

Polished my boots as I

Went round by the glistening bog-holes

Lost in unthinking joy.

I’ll be carrying bags to-day, I mused,

The best job at the mill

With plenty of time to talk of our loves

As we wait for the bags to fill.

Maybe Mary might call round…

And then I came to the haggard gate,

And I knew as I entered that I had come

Through fields that were part of no earthly estate.

~ Patrick Kavanagh

BW37: P is for .....

 

Happy Sunday!  Today is Positive Thinking Day, National Peanut Day, Defy Superstition Day,  Fortune Cookie Day, Grandparents Day, Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day, Uncle Sam Day, and Pet Memorial Day. Make of it what you will and see what ideas they bring to mind for stories to read.   

Today is also my younger brother's 60th Birthday which means I've spend the past three or four weeks putting together a scrap book/photo album of memories, questions, and quests for the future.  It's been a fascinating and memorable dip into the past, present, and future. I finished it a couple days ago and mailed it out in time for his birthday  I'm tired. LOL!  

So I will leave you with a few interesting reads to explore: 

How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself

The Case for Prince who is also one of our Bingo Quests. Read a book about Prince, or a prince, or someone royal. 

Choose to read a book from the Hay Festival Book Club list. 

11 Great Books for New Sci-Fi/Fantasy Readers  I've read the majority of this list. 

Best Philosophical Fiction which brings to mind our Philip K Dick quest from Mind Voyages. I recently finished his Galactic Pot Healer which was dystopian, philosophical, and weird. 

Which reminds me, it's time to start thinking about what you want to read for our October Spooktacular. 

"I only want to see you laughing in the purple rain." — Purple Rain, Prince

BW36: Q is for Quirky

Happy Sunday! This week while we honor the workers on Labor Day, and the fallen on 9/11, we also have the fun and the frivolous.  Today is actually Read A Book day which supposedly appeared somewhere around 2017.  For those of who read every day, it seems weird that people would actually have to be reminded that books exist and that today is the day to read.  How sad is that....   The 7th is Neither Rain nor Snow day, the 8th Star Trek day, the 9th International Soduku Day, the 10th Swap Ideas day, the 11th is Rosh Hashanah, and the 12th is Chocolate Milk Shake Day. 

Our letter of the week is Q leading into our next Bingo Quest of Quirky:  something which is or someone who is, odd or unusual.  Q also stands for Quantum Mechanics, Queen, Quilting, Quintessential, Quack, and Queue to name a few.  And of course Quest.  

All bookish adventures are quests whether it's a heroes quest, side quest, a journey or jaunt, an undertaking or adventure, be it medieval, geographical, scientifical, or an odyssey through space.  

My adventures lately have been with Robin Hobb in the Realm of the Elderlings. I'm currently on the Tawny Man Trilogy and about to start the second book The Golden Fool in which we learn more about the Fool's past.  No spoilers. I have to admin some of the characters are quite quirky. *Grin*

Plus I'm looking forward to the latest installment in J.D. Robb's In Death series with #63 Fury in Death, release date September 8th. 

Happy Reading!