Reminding all readers (of books, not blogs) that Read a Persephone Book Week — sponsored by bloggers Paperback Reader and The B Files (Baking & Bibliophilia) — starts tomorrow. In case you've forgotten the plan, the two will be spending the coming week exclusively reading books from the estimable English publisher, Persephone Books. I discovered Persephone in early 2008 and have sung their praises ever since in both print and cyberspace (check out my categories list).
Since I easily have a week's worth of Persephone titles on my shelf, this challenge may be the impetus I need to finish the half-read ones and get started on the unread ones, like "Greenery Street."
ROSES OVER A COTTAGE DOOR
And maybe, like Roses Over A Cottage Door, I'll even dress in gray (above). I'm sure I have a t-shirt like hers somewhere in the back of the closet. Thus, suitably attired, I can curl up on my gray-damask-covered couch, surrounded by my piles of gray-covered books, and hope for gray skies so I'm not tempted to put down my book and pick up my trowel.
Look forward to reading your Persphone posts - no sneaking out into the garden, though!
Posted by: Nicola | Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Ironically I am thinking and blogging more about reading than gardening these days. I'll have to try to find a Persephone Book. I loved your essay on naming. It is personal and it personalizes. Though it may seem a bit classist to name a property I think naming a garden like naming a pet is an intimate act which only deepens a relationship. Name, Name, Name that's what we do.
Posted by: Daniel Mount | Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 03:05 PM
Nicola — Day one and I didn't so much as crack a book!
Daniel — Thanks for those kind words about the naming post. And you're right; name, name, name is what we do!!
Posted by: LINDA from EACH LITTLE WORLD | Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 08:07 PM