Monthly Archives: March 2024

Well, it took a bit longer than expected. But am getting started now on the site updates and remodeling that is overdue!

First, for comfort level, an excerpt from a book I’m reading, about books:

We have a lot of books in the house. They are our primary decorative motif — books in piles on the coffee table, framed book covers, books sorted into stacks on every available surface, and of course books on shelves along most walls. Besides the visible books, there are the boxes waiting in the wings, the basement books, the garage books, the storage locker books. They are a sort of insulation, soundproofing some walls. They function as furniture, they prop up sagging fixtures and disguised by quilts function as tables. The quantities and types of books are fluid, arriving like hysterical cousins in overnight shipping envelopes only to languish near the overflowing mail bench. Advance Reading Copies collect at bedside, to be dutifully examined– to ignore them and read Henry James or Barbara Pym instead becomes a guilty pleasure. I can’t imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you’d longed to fall asleep reading The Aspern Papers, and there it is.

Louise Erdrich – Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country