Tuesday 4 ~ Reading From My Library

 

Tuesday 4
Reading Part 2







Welcome to Tuesday 4! Thank you for your participation in keeping the meme alive in

remembrance of Toni Taddeo.


Let's continue with Reading this week, shall we?  

Sorry, I didn't do the first week of this series, but thought I would chime in this week since I guess I have more to say on the subject than I thought!

Kindle or hard cover/paper back?  

Definitely real books, hard cover or paperback. I do not use a Kindle. I prefer to feel a real book in my hands and turn the pages and smell it, feel it and thoroughly enjoy it cover to cover.  Kindle/ebooks are not relaxing to me as the lighting is hard on the eyes and it is too much like "work" to be doing something electronic all the time. That's my personal opinion and preference.

Have you read a series like Harry Potter and if so which series and what did you think of the stories? Can you recommend them and why?

Here is a link to a post I wrote about the Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries that I read last spring while recuperating from surgery:  Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries 

After I had read the first one I wanted to read them all, and God blessed me with a gift from an old high school friend who brought me this bag full of the whole series! What a "blessing in disguise" that was for sure!

I just donated all of these books to our local library last week so that others can now enjoy them as well. They were a wonderful series of "cozy mysteries" that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Another series I enjoyed was the Mitford series by Jan Karon. 

This is an internet photo because I have loaned my books out to a friend, but I had all of them. There are more than what is pictured here in the series. I highly recommend them. You will fall in love with the characters and not want to put them down once you start!

Do you have a library or book shelves in your home?

Oh yes, I have many books, but not as many as I used to have. When we moved we donated many books to the local library.  

This bookshelf is in my den, next to my desk.  I have some devotional type books, books about "tea time", cookbooks, and other gift type books that I've received through the years from friends.

This bookshelf is in our living room, and there are many different kinds of religious books, college text books, and other various interesting books. (And lots of family photos).

Over the years I have collected some very old books, primarily from a couple of favorite authors who are long gone and out of print, but they wrote such interesting, old-fashioned, clean but adventuresome, romantic but mysterious thrilling novels. I wrote more about that HERE last winter.

Here's a few of my favorites: This first shelf (below) is primarily from one author, Mary J. Holmes. Most of her books were written before the turn of the 20th century, in the late 1800's.

Below are a couple of the covers of her books. They are so old they are falling apart. Many of these books I found at estate sales and/or bookstores that sell old books. I've had these for at least thirty years! They are that good that I don't want to get rid of them. 

You can't find these in any library today.

I am not sure exactly how I got started on these particular authors.  George Barr McCutcheon was

one of my mother's favorite authors and she shared his books with me, so that explains that...and apparently even her mother, my grandmother, enjoyed reading his books, 

because this one in particular was in my grandmother's collection...

Here is another bookshelf in our living room. There are a few books about the Civil War and WWII and various other items of interest.  More Bibles and Biblical Commentaries, which were a part of my husband's pastoral library. 

Oh, also there is a copy of my hubby's Doctoral Dissertation down there on the bottom shelf

The stories I could tell you about typing this dissertation...before computers!!! Well, that's another story in itself. Thankfully he completed the book and earned his Doctor of Ministry degree and the rest is history...or another story for another time. (and I earned my "PHT"..."putting hubby through").

I also have a collection of historical fiction books here that were very interesting. I may have to go back and re-read these. It's been long enough that I've forgotten most of the stories now...

This will give you a better understanding of who these books were about:

They are each excellent historical fictional accounts of these courageous women's lives, who lived during a very difficult time in our nation's history.

Is there a book you just really disliked ? Why did you dislike it?

I honestly can't think of a book that I really disliked, because if I don't like a book I put it down and don't read it. I can usually tell within the first chapter if I am going to like a book or not. I am pretty choosy about what kinds of books I will read and stay away from the steamier novels or anything too weird. I enjoy historical fiction, but prefer authors who write from a more Christian perspective.   Eugenia Price had a series of books on Savannah, St. Simons Island, Northeast Florida and the Civil War era that I truly enjoyed. I would highly recommend any of her books.

  I no longer buy books or collect them because I don't have room for any more books, unless they happen to be written by one of our friends.  Our blogging friend Martha Jane Orlando from Meditations of my Heart wrote a wonderful series of books, Adventures in the Glade , which could be deemed children's books, but yet they were so good that I believe most adults would truly love them. I sure did. 

I mostly check out books from the library nowadays. I am thankful for our local public library, and am thankful they are open again after the shutdown over the summer months.

Well, that's all folks!  Now gotta go link up with Annie and the others for today's Tuesday 4! See you there.