Fall doesn’t officially start for another couple of weeks, but I would lying if I said I haven’t been thinking about the upcoming Autumn season since the beginning of August. And I started thinking about what I wanted to read during the season long before then.
Read more What I’ll be Reading This Autumn (My Fall 2023 Reading List)
Earlier this month I found myself with some free time on a Sunday. In my world when I have free time my brain immediately thinks of one word, bookstore.
All throughout my reading life I didn’t think I was much of a coffee table book person … until I was. Now I absolutely love coffee them. There’s something so soothing about placing a well-written book, that’s also aesthetically pleasing, on a coffee table, nightstand, kitchen counter, etc. Here are some of my favourite coffee…
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me,” C.S. Lewis.
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home,” Edith Sitwell.
As an avid reader, I may be a bit biased, I believe books make wonderful gifts – they last a long time, and come on, there is nothing better than cozying up by the fire with a good book on a cold winter day.
I first read Just Kids by Patti Smith several years ago after seeing the cover plastered all over my Instagram feed. I was hooked. I have read the book several times since initially reading it, along with getting into her other pieces of work and her music.
Anne White and I met earlier in October at an Indigo in Hamilton where she was promoting her children’s book, The Cat Who Thought He Was a Mouse.
I met Gail Copeland a couple of months ago by running into her at an Indigo where she was promoting her book, The Price of Loyalty. Aside from Gail being inviting, kind, and appreciative, the book’s cover pulled me in.
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Paige Petrovsky 