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Season's Readings!
Dec. 28th, 2023 04:11 pmAmongst my Ex Libris Association colleagues, there's been a fair amount of buzz around the fact that Icelanders traditionally give each other books on Christmas Eve. But I want to point out that Icelanders don't have all the fun! In my childhood, I could usually count on getting a few books under the tree. Trips to the library on Saturdays were also a regular occurrence and as I grew older and more independent, a library branch opened at our local shopping centre, within walking distance of where I lived. Then I grew up and went to university, first Carleton for my undergraduate work and then Western for my Masters degree in Library Science. Then I embarked on a few-decades career as librarian, then I retired. And all that is now history. Fast forward to today.
This year I got book-gifts from number of significant people in my life: my daughter, my partner and one of my sisters. Plus l'Alliance française, which held a book giveaway December 13 and 14, of items that its library was discarding. I'll start by enumerating the four books I picked out there:
1. Lorsque j'étais une oeuvre d'art - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
2. 13 å table [short stories, various authors]
3. Des cornichons au chocolat - Stéphanie [YA?]
4. Voyages en absurdie - Stéphane de Groodt [essays]
From my daughter I got Blood and Circuses by Kerry Greenwood (a Phryne Fisher mystery) and also a Petit Robert French-English dictionary, an excellent replacement for my ancient Harraps which was literally falling apart.
My sister gave me 4 books:
A Haunting in the Arctic - C.J. Cooke
I Only Read Murder - Ian & Will Ferguson
Charlotte Illes is not a detective - Katie Siegel
The Cat's Meow - Jonathan B. Losos
My partner gave me a $100 gift card for The Spaniel's Tale, an independent bookshop that opened recently in the Hintonburg area of Ottawa. We went there today, and I used it to buy the following:
The Circle - Katherena Vermette
Letter to my Transgender Daughter - Carolyn Hays
Meeting my Treaty Kin - Heather Menzies
What you are looking for is at the library - Michiko Aayoana
While on Wellington West, we also dropped into an offshoot of The Record Centre, where I bought 8 el-cheapo records for a grand total of $27. But I'll get into those in a future post!
This year I got book-gifts from number of significant people in my life: my daughter, my partner and one of my sisters. Plus l'Alliance française, which held a book giveaway December 13 and 14, of items that its library was discarding. I'll start by enumerating the four books I picked out there:
1. Lorsque j'étais une oeuvre d'art - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
2. 13 å table [short stories, various authors]
3. Des cornichons au chocolat - Stéphanie [YA?]
4. Voyages en absurdie - Stéphane de Groodt [essays]
From my daughter I got Blood and Circuses by Kerry Greenwood (a Phryne Fisher mystery) and also a Petit Robert French-English dictionary, an excellent replacement for my ancient Harraps which was literally falling apart.
My sister gave me 4 books:
A Haunting in the Arctic - C.J. Cooke
I Only Read Murder - Ian & Will Ferguson
Charlotte Illes is not a detective - Katie Siegel
The Cat's Meow - Jonathan B. Losos
My partner gave me a $100 gift card for The Spaniel's Tale, an independent bookshop that opened recently in the Hintonburg area of Ottawa. We went there today, and I used it to buy the following:
The Circle - Katherena Vermette
Letter to my Transgender Daughter - Carolyn Hays
Meeting my Treaty Kin - Heather Menzies
What you are looking for is at the library - Michiko Aayoana
While on Wellington West, we also dropped into an offshoot of The Record Centre, where I bought 8 el-cheapo records for a grand total of $27. But I'll get into those in a future post!
