So we all know the saying that April showers bring May flowers; can someone remind me what April snow should bring? Today is a particularly gloomy day - the air is carrying a heavy wetness with it - so I thought I would lighten up this post with pansies (and pages. Lots of pages. Those always cheer me up).
At this point in our shelf life series, you may be thinking to yourself that my book purchasing is out of control. You may be right, but don't expect me to encourage you!
As you may have noted in other posts, my (slow-going) research centers on big cats such as the magnificent specimens above, so I have a running pre-order list of big cat books to add to my library. [I wish I could take a picture of said library, send it to a big cat expert and have them welcome me into their world!] These are the big cats books that recently clawed their way onto the shelves:
I have dozens of Thapar books; his keen insight into life with tigers makes me endlessly jealous and also warms my heart. This book was listed at $50 but I snagged a used (and somewhat abused) copy for $5. Given its very small dimensions, I'm very glad I didn't pay the original price!
Books about bobcats are rare (books about lynx just don't exist) so I've had this one pre-ordered for two years! It documents the adventures of a man who adopts an orphaned bobcat.
Technically this book is more about women than big cats, but it reinterprets the mystery of the Tsavo lions and imagines women inhabiting (or transforming into) big cats. That's a superpower I would like to possess. [Although perhaps a dangerous one. Can you see the headline? S
tudent fails to turn in assignment for third time, reports being stalked by mountain lion growling, "Write your essay!"]
In a moment of despair, my mom once wished to give the world back to the elephants since people can be so very despicable. I am clearly her daughter because I would see it given back to big cats! This title (released next week) documents the life and death of Cecil the lion.
The next list of titles are books I have recently adopted in order to expand my horizons. I can't claim an indiscriminate interest in
all things, but I try to read broadly, especially when I discover how little I know about something!
Although I've been writing my entire life (unsuccessfully some might point out!) but I haven't read much about writing. This is the beginning of my effort to amend that!
I'm working my way through the King James Bible this year - a refresher from my undergraduate days as a Religious Studies minor - and I thought I should add some sermons to my doses of scripture!
Both of these titles are works that commonly appear on internet lists and I've never been brave enough, previously, to give them my attention. Now they're on my shelf so I suspect that they will learn to demand it as all the other waiting titles do!
When this book arrived, I was initially disappointed. It's oversized, brightly colored and full of art that initially made me wonder if it was actually a children's book. Then I sat down to read it and devoured it in a single sitting, amazed at how the author had used spacing and color and quotations to make a readable mosaic of Marie Curie.
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