Hello friends.  It's been a little quiet lately on my part.  I got a "prodding"  email from a reader telling me to "get on with it" and post something new!  I find it takes balance.  Blogging takes time.  I love to write and could be here all day!  Being a former lit major I also get picky, editing, re-writing.  So you blogger moms know how it is...LIFE and LOVE calls...toddlers, big kids, laundry, trips to the library.  And when one's husband starts alluding to one getting "sucked in" every evening after tuck-ins, it's time to back off and just sit, talk, and read or watch his movie for a change (ha-ha right!)

I've also discovered the rush of bidding on Ebay.  Bad, bad, bad!  Terribly fun.  I love old books.  I love how they feel and smell and look.  I love reading something that was part of someone's library a hundred years ago.  This is what I most recently bid on and won...

Our Deportment is a Victorian book of etiquette, customs, manners and tips on "home culture."  That's sort of a Charlotte Mason sounding word, isn't it?  I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff.  Can't wait to get it!

I am also bidding on a set of Elsie Dinsmore books.  Has anyone read them?  I have mixed feelings after reading the first one aloud to the kids recently.  Written also in the 1800's, there's lots of charm and virtuous character examples within.  But I found the character of eight year old Elsie to be a bit insufferable at times.  For the first three quarters of the book her sensitive nature is so acute that she's weeping, sobbing or tearing up with "tears falling like rain" every other paragraph.  I really wearied of that and started glossing over the melodramatic descriptions of her woundedness.  I told the kids she needs a "thicker skin!"  But they want to read the sequel, so hopefully that will improve. 

Also in the book news, there's a HSB book club starting up reading Ishmael by E.D.E.N. Southworth.

If you love books, I hope to see you over there.  It's convenient.  Fun, educational...The only thing better would be if we could all actually meet in person down at a cozy coffee shop and have each other's faces in view. 

Signing off for today,

Christa

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Posted by TNMOMTOMANYBLESSINGS

I love old books as well. They look wonderful on display and if you can find on with a great story all the better.
My daughter never enjoyed the Elsie books and they love to read so much I never ade them read them.


Be blesseed,
Maria

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Posted by Anonymous

LOL, I had the same reaction to Elsie Dinsmore as you! I thought she was pretty insufferable. I doubt I'll be reading them aloud, although our good friends really liked them.

Old books--I love them too. I have an old math book, and it is so neat to look throguh and see what the kids had to do in the late 1800s. Quite challenging!

Claire
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