Future Reads

 Last week I went to the North Webster Friends of the Library sale.

I did find some books to purchase. Actually, I want to read a series by Beth Wiseman on Hoopla so these purchases may wait a while.

The closet book I will save for the day we move into an apartment which will probably be 5 or 6 years ahead. We will need to efficiently use limited space. We have some condo neighbors who will be moving into my husband's sister's former apartment. They are having a patio slab installed and redoing the kitchen. They also wanted a new sink vanity in the bathroom, but there are long delays in getting things like this because of the supply problems.

The Jody Hedlund book is Christian historical romance. I have read some of her other books and enjoyed them. Terri Blackstock writes Christian suspense books. Suzanne Chazin is a secular mystery/suspense writer; I have not read any of her books before. The cost for the books was $1 each.

Landscapes of His Grace : a Visual Devotional was published by Charles Stanley's In Touch Ministries. Apparently Mr. Stanley is quite an avid photographer.

Since he has traveled all over the world speaking and ministering, his photos reflect lots of diversity. 

There are devotional entries with comments and Scripture and a photo facing the written page, followed by 2-4 more photos. The main thrust is seeing God not only in His Word but in His world (creation).

I wish they had labelled below or next to the picture where it is or what it is. Instead there is an "index" in the back that correlates with the page number. There are over 200 glossy photos. It resembles a coffee-table book and must have been expensive to publish. The book jacket says $40, but I assume this was sent as a gift to donors. 

I just started it yesterday. It should be a nice resource for several weeks. I will flip back to the index because I do want to know the places photographed. The first photo was a barn in the Grand Tetons that I also photographed. We got up really early so the rising sun would shine on the barn. Looks like he did, too. Probably a lot of people will just drink in the beauty of the photos without using the index.

I am scheduled for an MRI on Thursday (Cinco de Mayo); the follow-up at Fort Wayne Orthopedics will be May 10th. In a week I should have some answers and hopefully some options to relieve pain. 

Holing Up

 We had our carpeting cleaned this morning. To stay out of the way and then off the damp carpet, I holed up in our sunroom.

The cleaners recommended that we not reposition the other furniture until tomorrow morning. It's going to be a long evening with no Lazy Boy chair to sit in.

Earlier this morning I went to the Friends of the Library sale at North Webster. I was a bit disappointed in the selection of books. Hardly any non-fiction. 2 of the 3 novels I bought are secular so may have some scenes/language I'd rather not read, but I will give them a try. I also bought 3 CDs.

We did see Seabiscuit before, but I think I will enjoy watching it again. 

We had placed our loveseat, which was mostly on the area rug,  facing north while we watched Jeopardy. I could see quite a bit of color in the sky after a gray and rainy day.

When I stepped outside to face west toward the sunset I was blown away.

The sky looked like it was on fire. Well worth the effort to go look.

Fall came in with cold rain and winds yesterday. I had to find my flannel sheet (which I use as a blanket during the transition). I also turned the heat on. It is going to warm up some Sunday and early next week. I am glad to have some new books and CDs to while away the cold gloomy weeks coming.

The Big Book Hunt Continues

I went to 2 Friends of the Library book sales within a week; one at North Webster Public Library on October 26th and one at Warsaw Community Public Library today. I bought 12 books last Thursday, four of them Christmas books. I will put them in the library hall display after Thanksgiving along with a few other Christmas books that were donated in the past several months. The residents like having them displayed so they don't have to browse the shelves to find Christmas books, they can just take them from the display.

This morning I bought 10 books, none Christmas-related, but a few large print books and 7-8 that will fill the series gaps we have.

Of course the series desiderata list keeps growing. I bought a Maclaren book and a Blackstock book last week that are part of series we didn't have. So now I need to find 3 books to complete those series. Of the writing of books there is no end, and Christian fiction series proliferate like rabbits. I saw a few interesting books today that I passed over because they were part of series we don't have, and I didn't want to create gaps unless they were popular authors.

I spent $19.50 for 22 books, a pretty good bargain. A few of the books I bought today are quite worn (library copies), but overall most of the books are in good shape and by authors the Grace Village residents love to read. The library serves more and more readers it seems by the rapidly filling return box. This a book-loving group.

Book buying can be fun except I know that to add new books I will have to weed books from the collection to make shelf space, a task I don't enjoy. The residents are appreciative, however, and a word of thanks goes a long way to keep me going.