When I was 5 years old, I was forced to take dancing lessons while the Brother was forced to take accordion lessons. I hated dancing class. The Knights of Columbus Hall where the classes were given had no heat or it wasn't turned on. I hated wearing the pink beginner tights. I liked clacking around in the tap shoes, but Ma wouldn't let me practice inside the house on the wood floors. I spent most of my time in class being miserable and crying. Eventually, I was taken out of class.
While the Brother still had to endure accordion lessons, Dad took me to the library. He would leave me upstairs in the children's library where I could look at the books and choose to take some books home with my own library card. As I got older, I would go downstairs to the adult library and wander among the stacks enjoying the scent of the books before going to find Dad in the reference area consulting the law books and catching up on his work.
So for the next several weeks, a list of my favorite books, some I have read as a child, others as an adult and some I have read more than once.
The Wicked Day
Mary Stewart
This is book 4 of the Arthurian Cycle. If you haven't read this book, you can find it at your local library or favorite bookstore.
This is indeed a good book, and one I have here on my shelves! Enjoy your weekend, Valerie
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Deleteoh my goodness CJ! I didn't know there was 4 books in this series!!! Now i HAVE to find it in hardcover! Hugs! deb
ReplyDeleteIf you're looking for hard to find or out of print books try Powell's Books or AbeBooks
DeleteI wondered if you were going to continue with this series. I've got to start reading this series. I said that last week I know. So many books, not enough time. Maybe I will stop sleeping-ha-ha-ha. Happy May.
ReplyDeleteToo bad, Pete or Maddie couldn't read to you while you worked outside
DeleteLooks interesting. Thanks! :)
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DeleteAh, book 4. This is where I threw the book across the room and went back to calling it a trilogy ;)
ReplyDelete😺 I think there's actually another book in the series, but I didn't read it so won't include it.
DeleteYou have a lot of those Mary Stewart books. Again, I have STILL never heard of her.
ReplyDeleteThat’s because you’re not old
Deletei enjoy seeing what books you have read and how i've never heard of them before.
ReplyDeleteLike I told Elizabeth, you’re not old
Deletewell my birthdate would suggest otherwise, but my mind is forever young, heck yeah!!
DeleteYour love of library shines through.
ReplyDeleteYou know I'm not sure I've read this one. I read the other 3 over and over again, but how the legend ends makes me sad. I don't think I read it.
Take special care.
I think this one came out long the others so it may have been missed. There's one more in the series, too, but I never read that one either.
DeleteThis is one I would like! Thanks CJ! Big Hugs!
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