Weekend Links

 And a few fun reads to keep you distracted!  (don't we all need that right now??)

The 12 Most Popular Bookstores and Libraries On Earth

The Scintilating Histories of the Mitford Sisters

Flannery O'Connor at 100

Happy Birthday, William Morris!  Born March 24, 1834

And Elizabeth I died on March 24, 1603...

The dazzling tiara collection of Queen Mary

How Mr Darcy became one of Austen's most memorable creations

Women played a pivotal role as scribes of medieval manuscripts

The great American classic we've been misreading for 100 years

Advice from vintage cocktail party etiquette books...

Eleanor de Montfort's lavish medieval wardrobe

Weekend Links

 Happy autumn, everyone!  Don't forget to turn your clocks back this weekend.  I confess I sometimes have a tough time with the early darkness and cold, but I do love cozy quilts, cashmere shawls, and holiday lights, so it's hygge time!  Also reading and writing time.  I have a deadline this week (book 4 of the 1920s Santa Fe mysteries), and finally got the top of my library's holds for Tom Lake.  What are you reading this week??

In the meantime, some fun tidbits...

First look at Agatha Christie's "Murder is Easy" cast

How Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group Unbuttoned Britain

Maria Tallchief quarter released

An early Charlotte Bronte story

The war of the opera houses in The Gilded Age

How you can protect your local library

Things I Love Thursday

This Thursday, in honor of Banned Books Week, I am shouting about my deep and lifelong love of libraries!!! Thanks to the shenanigans in Pennsylvania, we have a timely reminder not to take these wonderful places for granted.

When I was a kid, I got taken to the library every weekend (more often in the summer, if I whined enough about being bored), and I loved those days. I could go in, breathe in those lovely scents of paper and ink, and find all new worlds on the shelves. Best of all, I could even take them home (provided I stuck to the 30 book check-out limit). Today I could never support my book habit without them. Yay libraries!

What are your favorite library memories?