ONE MORE WEEK…!
In just seven lovely days the beautiful new paperback edition of THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS will be available, dear ones.
Thus, I shall be setting off on a book tour!
Click here for details, and come see me if you can:
Heart,
LG
"Jim loved your card so much, he ate it."
A friend of this page named Rowan just shared this wonderful excerpt from an interview with Maurice Sendak…
I thought you all might enjoy this, further to our discussion this morning about whether you are all book devourers, or book preservers!
Heart,
LG
QUESTION OF THE DAY: Are you a book-devourer, or a book-preserver?
OK, I know you all love books. But my question today is – HOW do you love them? Ravenously, or tenderly? Do you physically devour them, or do you treat them like holy icons? Do you bend the pages and scribble notes in the margins, and place them face-down on the floor, and use them for a door jam? Or do you wrap them in mylar and keep them away from direct light, humidity, and your cup of coffee? Are there crumbs in your books, or could you eat off them (except that you wouldn't?)
I ask because sometimes I'll be doing a book signing and someone will come up with a battered, tattered copy of EAT PRAY LOVE for me to sign (something that looks like it's been to the beach, dropped in a bathtub, chewed on by a puppy, and had red wine spilled on it) and they will apologize for the shabby condition of the volume. As if I would be angry! But I think it's wonderful. I always say the same thing: "This book looks very well-loved."
I also think it's wonderful, though, when people present me with a book to sign that looks as though it's being preserved for the Library of Congress — practically handled with white gloves. I say the same thing in that case: "This book looks very well-loved."
So many ways to show love…
I myself am a book devourer. I love my collection of books but I don't fetishize them. I think they can stand up to some rough treatment, because I think books like to be tussled around a bit — like a lover in the bedsheets. I'll eat over a book, take it out in the rain, fill the margins with exclamation points (when I really love the content), leave it in the yard, lend it out to never be returned. I'm a book monster. I adore books too passionately to treat them gently.
Yet I have friends who, when they drop a book, will tenderly pick it up and kiss it, as if it were a baby. This, too, is love.
How about you? What's your style?
Happy reading,
LG
Oh. My. God.
I've just been alerted to something very important.
Dolce & Gabbana apparently designed the uniforms and travel wardrobes for the Italian World Cup team.
Including these actual suits, shown on these actual Italian players.
I will try to hold myself together here, since I am a happily married middle-aged woman, and a respectable citizen.
HOWEVER.
If you will please excuse me, I simply must say it: This photograph is the happily married middle-aged woman's equivalent of the entire Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
You're welcome,
LG
COURAGE IS JUST DREAMS WITH SHOES ON…
A friend of this page shared this the other day, and I love it.
Put your shoes on, my friends, and go after it!
🙂
LG
