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Library Dreams

Library Dreams. Cynthia’s Library.

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Library Dreams

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  1. Library Dreams Cynthia’s Library

  2. My first Hamiln Garland book was Main Travelled Roads, which I did eventually find in a two-volume antiquarian set. Read these if you like the Mid-west and stories of early America. Hamlin Garland was a journalist who wrote fiction on the side. I came across this beautiful edition of A Little Norsk in a used book shop in New England. It was a gift to a woman who glued her photo into the front pages in 1892. It begins, “Ans, the next time you twist hay f’r the fire, I wish’tou’d dodge the damp spots,” said the cook…. Cooks are always grumblin’, calmly remarked Anson….”

  3. Terry McMillan Terry McMillan does not sign books. She signs book plates. I was lucky enough to be working at a bookstore for one of her signings and asked her to sign an actual book for me. She did.

  4. Sounder is my favorite book. Or one of the very favorite books. Even though I love adult literature such as Grapes of Wrath and Anna Karenina, children’s books can make me weak in the knees like no other subject matter can. I wept for hours after reading Sounder. This is a first edition.

  5. A Year Book of Legends are actually religious folk tales from around the world arranged by month. The book was published in 1959 in London. One March story is called “St. David and the Leek” and it is about how the leek became the official emblem of Wales.

  6. “Letters from Japan” was published in London by Macmillan in 1899. They are by Mrs. Hugh Fraser about her time in Japan. Her life was a lady’s life and so not saucy. These are mostly descriptions of meals, celebrations, or some kind of happening. If the happening was at all exciting, Mrs. Fraser puts her dampened British twist on the event so that it is not too emotional. However, she was very detailed. As if to recognize this style, she ends volume one with the story a samurai beheading.

  7. These are little Golden Books measuring about 2” x 2”. I remember Golden Books from my childhood. I like miniature books, but don’t have many.

  8. To all New Englanders because all New Englanders love Donald Hall, as they should. Of course there is an essay on the Red Sox.

  9. This is just some of my own library. It is actually all over my house and in boxes in my attic. I hope to donate some of my collection to an interested library someday.

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