What a great variety of non-fiction, Angelia! I read Stephen King's 'On Writing' many years ago, and I remember it was really good. Probably should re-read it.😊 Excellent plan to read 'A Reader's Book of Days' in 2025 - it looks like a very enjoyable book! I use a few of those big, thick books to lift up my tabletop tripod, too. Works super well. 😁 Thanks for sharing! ~ Kim
@@WildHeartsandWildflowers Thank you! The makeshift camera setups are all I know. I'm going to keep the Reader's Book of Days out in plain sight so I don't forget about it for another decade!
I couldn't help but laugh when you apologized to Mary; I know how you are feeling. At my doctor appointment yesterday the doc was listening to my heart and I said if it was broken it was because of the election - if we don't laugh, we'd cry
Oh I loved The Professor and The Madman! I also appreciated your apology to Mary…I’ve got to say-the candle lighting ceremony made me a little nervous.😬 Your Zelda bio looks wonderful. I love Steven’s hymnal! Such an interesting and diverse collection on this shelf!
@@BookChatWithPat8668Update: yesterday I lit another candle in here and forgot it entirely for a few hours! It was burning right below some Penguin classics with hanging tassels. I cannot be trusted!
Edith Hamilton’s _Mythology_ - I still have my paperback copy from high school, circa 1970. It is one of the seven books in the mythology section of my bookshelves. Zelda Fitzgerald - I have no book about her, but back when I lived in Rockville, Maryland, I sometimes visited the churchyard where Scott and Zelda are buried. I lived about a mile from there. The slab is engraved with the final line from _The Great Gatsby._
An eclectic library on this shelf, Angelina. I too enjoy books about books. The Professor and the Madman was a book club read I thoroughly enjoyed. I recently read Years in the Bathtub, but some of that reading was skimming. I enjoyed Hornby’s writing, especially his humor, and added several titles from his recommendations to my “want to read” lists. A Reader’s Delight appeals to me. One of my nonfiction books is 500 Great Books by Women by Erica Bauermeister, Jesse Larsen, and Holly Smith. Books are grouped into topics - choices, conflicting cultures, identity, imagined worlds, and 17 more. Each book is summarized and has any notable significance acknowledged. There’s an index of books by date, from circa 1300 to 1993. plus indexes for genre, region and country, and people of color in the US.
The energy is low these days. It's hard to put things together, yet the need to reach out and connect is real. I like the mood setting with the candle. I need to re-read The Professor and the Madman. I like the way Winchester writes.
@@EveningReader The energy is both low and erratic, like a malfunctioning power cord. I just ironed a pile of flannel shirts; it is 89 degrees. But maybe it will cool down and I'll be ready!
Ohhh, the general malaise is like battling quicksand these days, a week later. I had that exact Edith Hamilton edition for many years. The mythology class I took as an elective in high school ended up being the class that best prepared me for college as I transitioned from entering as an accounting major to being an Art History major. It too was my ready reference for all those Greek gods and goddesses in Classical Art and then in Renaissance Art. I needed that base knowledge advantage for Renaissance Art since the religious stuff, beyond basic Bible stories, was all new to me, not having been much of churchy family either. And a book on horology, who knew! The Frick museum in NYC has one of the best collections of European horology after a bequest about 25 years ago. I’m hoping it’s on display and highlighted when they reopen in their expanded renovated buildings next year.
@@bookofdust The Frick just keeps popping into the conversation, doesn't it? I went through one of those childhood mythology phases but not so much as an adult so I'm always looking things up.
Hi Angelia, Nice to see you chatting about some nonfiction reads that you have collected. In the past few years I have delved deeper into nonfiction to educate myself about black history, democracy and political figures in our history. My younger self would have never believed this transformation. I have been quite the procrastimaster lately in painting my living room and putting together new bookshelves. I would like to magically have it done with a wave of a wand but alas I will need to use some opposite action techniques to break the nonaction! Have a great week
@@marciajohansson769 I have also been reading books that cover holes and perspectives missing from my school education. Now I'm planning some of my 2025 nonfiction adventures! We keep broaching and retreating from the topic of rooms we'd like to paint in our house. All of them, basically. It's daunting!
I too love the Zelda biography. I was living in Montgomery. Alabama when the book first came out and Zelda being a home girl, the town was very excited about the book. It is sitting on my self and perhaps this is the month to reread it. I also have Savage Beauty by the same author - a biography of Edna St Vincent Millay. I have yet to read it but it really looks interesting.
@@lindawalker2451 Savage Beauty - that does sound interesting! My interest in these early 20th century poets, artists, etc. really came back to life with the show I saw at the National Portrait Gallery.
Hi Angelia 👋🏽. I've had the Madman and the Professor on my Kindle for a long time. The Reader's Delight book sounds so good. So many great books and so sad to think of the many great feminist authors rolling in a grave. I smiled to witness your apology to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. I have Monster, She Wrote on my non-fic shelf and can't wait to read, now more than ever.
@@books_and_bocadillos The two Marys, mother and daughter, were both brilliant and fascinating, and so sad that Mary W. died just 11 days after younger Mary was born. These shelf trips remind me of all the rereads just waiting to happen.
What a great variety of non-fiction, Angelia! I read Stephen King's 'On Writing' many years ago, and I remember it was really good. Probably should re-read it.😊
Excellent plan to read 'A Reader's Book of Days' in 2025 - it looks like a very enjoyable book!
I use a few of those big, thick books to lift up my tabletop tripod, too. Works super well. 😁
Thanks for sharing! ~ Kim
@@WildHeartsandWildflowers Thank you! The makeshift camera setups are all I know. I'm going to keep the Reader's Book of Days out in plain sight so I don't forget about it for another decade!
I couldn't help but laugh when you apologized to Mary; I know how you are feeling. At my doctor appointment yesterday the doc was listening to my heart and I said if it was broken it was because of the election - if we don't laugh, we'd cry
@@patriciafay-f9l I know! We have to parcel out our strength and humor for the long haul!
Oh I loved The Professor and The Madman! I also appreciated your apology to Mary…I’ve got to say-the candle lighting ceremony made me a little nervous.😬 Your Zelda bio looks wonderful. I love Steven’s hymnal! Such an interesting and diverse collection on this shelf!
@@BookChatWithPat8668 I'm not too trustworthy with candles but I like them anyways! I'm glad I chose this mish mash shelf of assorted topics.
@ it was a great shelf!
@@BookChatWithPat8668Update: yesterday I lit another candle in here and forgot it entirely for a few hours! It was burning right below some Penguin classics with hanging tassels. I cannot be trusted!
@ oh no!! 🫨
Edith Hamilton’s _Mythology_ - I still have my paperback copy from high school, circa 1970. It is one of the seven books in the mythology section of my bookshelves.
Zelda Fitzgerald - I have no book about her, but back when I lived in Rockville, Maryland, I sometimes visited the churchyard where Scott and Zelda are buried. I lived about a mile from there. The slab is engraved with the final line from _The Great Gatsby._
@@mediumjohnsilver I did not know they were buried there. Or maybe I did but forgot. Interesting!
I feel so sad too. I loved The Professor and Madman. I also enjoyed The Meaning of Everything.
@@deborajohnson5717 Tough interlude right now. Thank goodness for books and bookish friends!
An eclectic library on this shelf, Angelina.
I too enjoy books about books. The Professor and the Madman was a book club read I thoroughly enjoyed. I recently read Years in the Bathtub, but some of that reading was skimming. I enjoyed Hornby’s writing, especially his humor, and added several titles from his recommendations to my “want to read” lists. A Reader’s Delight appeals to me.
One of my nonfiction books is 500 Great Books by Women by Erica Bauermeister, Jesse Larsen, and Holly Smith. Books are grouped into topics - choices, conflicting cultures, identity, imagined worlds, and 17 more. Each book is summarized and has any notable significance acknowledged. There’s an index of books by date, from circa 1300 to 1993. plus indexes for genre, region and country, and people of color in the US.
@@RebeccaStultz-y9f 500 Great Books By Women sounds really interesting! I'll look for that one. Thanks for the details!
The energy is low these days. It's hard to put things together, yet the need to reach out and connect is real. I like the mood setting with the candle. I need to re-read The Professor and the Madman. I like the way Winchester writes.
@@EveningReader The energy is both low and erratic, like a malfunctioning power cord. I just ironed a pile of flannel shirts; it is 89 degrees. But maybe it will cool down and I'll be ready!
@readandre-read That is the perfect description. Wishing you cooler temps!
Ohhh, the general malaise is like battling quicksand these days, a week later.
I had that exact Edith Hamilton edition for many years. The mythology class I took as an elective in high school ended up being the class that best prepared me for college as I transitioned from entering as an accounting major to being an Art History major.
It too was my ready reference for all those Greek gods and goddesses in Classical Art and then in Renaissance Art. I needed that base knowledge advantage for Renaissance Art since the religious stuff, beyond basic Bible stories, was all new to me, not having been much of churchy family either.
And a book on horology, who knew! The Frick museum in NYC has one of the best collections of European horology after a bequest about 25 years ago. I’m hoping it’s on display and highlighted when they reopen in their expanded renovated buildings next year.
@@bookofdust The Frick just keeps popping into the conversation, doesn't it?
I went through one of those childhood mythology phases but not so much as an adult so I'm always looking things up.
I really didn't expect to see a Baptist hymnal on your shelf!
@@awebofstories Me neither! Steven slipped it in there. We have his grandmother's Bible as well; I should put them together. 😊
Hi Angelia, Nice to see you chatting about some nonfiction reads that you have collected. In the past few years I have delved deeper into nonfiction to educate myself about black history, democracy and political figures in our history. My younger self would have never believed this transformation. I have been quite the procrastimaster lately in painting my living room and putting together new bookshelves. I would like to magically have it done with a wave of a wand but alas I will need to use some opposite action techniques to break the nonaction! Have a great week
@@marciajohansson769 I have also been reading books that cover holes and perspectives missing from my school education. Now I'm planning some of my 2025 nonfiction adventures! We keep broaching and retreating from the topic of rooms we'd like to paint in our house. All of them, basically. It's daunting!
@@readandre-read haha I would imagine it was a bit funny that my comment said paining my living and not painting LOL. That is so funny.
I too love the Zelda biography. I was living in Montgomery. Alabama when the book first came out and Zelda being a home girl, the town was very excited about the book. It is sitting on my self and perhaps this is the month to reread it. I also have Savage Beauty by the same author - a biography of Edna St Vincent Millay. I have yet to read it but it really looks interesting.
@@lindawalker2451 Savage Beauty - that does sound interesting! My interest in these early 20th century poets, artists, etc. really came back to life with the show I saw at the National Portrait Gallery.
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@@theresepazell7875 Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video.
This is a fun video! 😊
@@myreadinglife8816 Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Hi Angelia 👋🏽. I've had the Madman and the Professor on my Kindle for a long time. The Reader's Delight book sounds so good. So many great books and so sad to think of the many great feminist authors rolling in a grave. I smiled to witness your apology to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. I have Monster, She Wrote on my non-fic shelf and can't wait to read, now more than ever.
@@books_and_bocadillos The two Marys, mother and daughter, were both brilliant and fascinating, and so sad that Mary W. died just 11 days after younger Mary was born. These shelf trips remind me of all the rereads just waiting to happen.
You've read about 95% of that shelf no book shaming for you...
@@LouiseReader I guess you're right; thanks!