I admit it, I have no shelf control. For me books are the same as: a potato chip, a piece of chocolate, a cup of tea – there’s no way I can have just one. I wake each day (If I’ve actually managed to sleep) and I think, the world is mine for the reading!

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ~ C.S. Lewis

I have no particular genre or author, my motto is simply, having fun isn’t hard if you’ve got a library card (if you watched Arthur as a child or with a child, you’ll sing that line). I read to fill my brain, my heart, my soul..

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” ~ Isabel Allende

Books get inside your head and heart; scents, sounds, feelings, all inside a bottle which, once read, you can uncork and consume whenever you want, or need.

Lately I’ve been drawn back to the “classics”, including but not limited to: Dickens, Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C.S. Lewis, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, various Brontes, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, George Orwell, Virgil, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, Margaret Atwood…I wish I could sleep.

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” ~ Oscar Wilde

Recently hosted Chronic Page Turners Book Chat, presented by Chronic Not Hopeless.

It was lively, respectful, interesting, informative, a wonderful way to connect. BYOB – Bring your own books…and refreshments (no judgment). We’d love to hear from/about indie authors too! https://yadadarcyyada.com/2021/05/21/how-i-met-your-author/.

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” ~ Groucho Marx

Books have been my magic carpet, my best friends, my worst enemies, my Mona Lisa, my Tower of Pisa, my guiding star, my hopes, my dreams, fears, my amazing and expanding universe! I’ve never felt alone with a book, it’s as though I have the world with me, as I’m infused by the words on the pages.