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Musings of a Book Addict
I'm married to a scavenger of sorts and he often totes home rescued boxes of books that I paw through with shiny, hungry eyes. I pull out the odd and interesting and add them to my teetering stack.
Currently reading
The Hound of the Baskervilles
E.B. White: A Biography
Murder on the Orient Express
There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
Living Buddha, Living Christ
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
The Snare of the Hunter
Paintings of Henry Miller
Dreamways of the Iroquois: Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul
Pentimento (Back Bay Books)
A Dictionary of Similes
I have a 1924 copy of this funny, detailed collection of similes. The best part is the almost snarky introduction by Frank J. Wilstach, in which he admits to his obsessive compulsive need to collect similes whenever he sees them. The book is beautiful and is a little like reading poetry written on the walls of ancient lavatories.