Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
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Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
23h ago
BOOK THOUGHTSRut or Routine?I’m a creature of habit, for sure. There are some things I like to do over and over, the same way, for years. For example, I’m on a board that meets four times a year at an office in the suburbs. I may pass that building 12 or 15 times a year, but only after the quarterly board meeting do I regularly do three nearby things: (1) stop at the Cat Fanciers’ Thrift ..read more
Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
6d ago
BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYSThank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.MY BOOK BEGINNINGOne sunny April afternoon in 1990 two Englishman strode up the steps of London's Tate Gallery, passed beneath the imposing ..read more
Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
6d ago
BOOK THOUGHTSBooks and BirthdaysToday is my husband’s birthday so I baked his favorite German chocolate cake! I have other birthday plans in the works, but I'm going to take a book break first. I plan to put my feet up for a few minutes with this terrific book, Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by husband and wife writing team Laney Salisbury and Aly ..read more
Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
1w ago
BOOK THOUGHTSKingsley Amis, Favorite Author"If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing." ~ Kingsley Amis in Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis was born on this day in 1922. He is in my pantheon of favorite authors, right up there with Graham Greene, Jim Harrison, Iris Murdoch, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and Evelyn Waugh. But Amis holds a special place in my reader’s heart. His ..read more
Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
1w ago
BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYSThank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.MY BOOK BEGINNINGOnly an idiot would travel without a book.-- from Last Chance in Paris by Lynda Marron. Well, that sentence caught ..read more
Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
2w ago
BOOK THOUGHTSOn ComminglingDo you commingle your books? My husband and I commingle our finances, and even our music CDs. But we would no sooner commingle our books as we would our socks! The picture above is a snapshot of my husband's shelves in our home library. We may keep our books separate, but I get the lion’s share of shelf space. He gets this wall. I, on the other hand, get two walls ..read more
Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
2w ago
BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYSWell, what happened last week? Beats me! I totally spaced Book Beginnings! I must have had my mind on Easter. Sorry!Thank you for coming back this week for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right ..read more
Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
1M ago
BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYSThank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.MY BOOK BEGINNINGWhen the sun had gone, I saw that the water was streaked with great patches of crimson and gold.-- from I'll Never be ..read more
Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
1M ago
IT'S MY BLOGIVERSARY!Rose City Reader turns sweet 16 today. I started this blog 16 years ago and it is hard for me to think it has been around for so long. I celebrated my blogiversary by taping an episode of the Rare Book Cafe, a book vlog you can find on Facebook here or Instagram here. Give them a follow!I started Rose City Reader to keep track of all the book lists I was working on. I ..read more
Rose City Reader by Gilion Dumas
1M ago
BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYSThank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.MY BOOK BEGINNINGThe first thing you need to understand is that most large organizations in the private sector are run by curmudgeons like ..read more