Remember, remember… November feels like the start of the slow turn to the close of the year. Everything outside gets browner and crunchier. There’s the quiet dying of the light. It happens subtly, then all at once. It also gives us a moment to sit with the quiet, find a small corner, wrap up in a blanket, and read by lamplight.
Here are some new and forthcoming books to look for, with a preview of some full reviews to come from me later in the month.
I’ve been borrowing lots of library books lately. There are tons of titles from new writers and a library card is the best way to test them out. If you don’t have a library card, why not? It’s free and easy. Plus, librarians love it and circulation numbers help them stay open! Add these to your list for your next trip to the library.
“November comes / And November goes, / With the last red berries / And the first white snows. / With night coming early, / And dawn coming late, / And ice in the bucket / And frost by the gate.” ~Elizabeth Coatsworth
Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time — as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look. ~ Charles…