This should have been first after your great post. I love small book stores....and sadly most of them are gone. Larger chains took over and my favorite book stores couldn't compete.Now I read on my Kindle...or borrow from our local Library....I miss the familar shelves in our familiar store, the sme...

R. LeBeaux : On a visit to my favorite book store in New York, I saw an elegant, overly decorated lady looking very lost between shelves and book bins. She finally approached a young man who worked there. " I'm looking for pretty books bound in leather," she said. "Do you have a subje...

Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales.... lovely and melancholy tales for the not so young....
The Happy Prince. The Rose And The Nightingale.

Paul Celan is one of my favorite poets. In a very different and inventive language, his poems tell about the brutality during Holocaust, without mentioning by name the source of the devastation. He masterfully confronts the reader of a his terrible anguish, pain and sorrow and that of so many other ...

I made Tolerance for others my religion. I like this. But I wonder, where do you draw the line? Anti-abortion? Anti-global warming? Westboro Baptist Church? Nazism? Over-tolerance can be as problematic as under-tolerance. Balance is key, if that is what you worship. . Interbane... Interesting quest...

It was only last week when I found this interesting forum. My first day did not go very well, when I posted my pick for a future book-discussion, way before my time. :( Chris was nice and kindly forgave me for not reading forum- rules. :) I am a transplant from Germany, still have an accent, and you...

Hi Katelyn... Having just arrived on these forums. perhaps it is not my place to trying to lure you back . No one here is right, no one here is wrong... Each is right in their "OWN" conviction, and each one of us should honor different views, different beliefs as long as we treat humanity...

At this moment :
Mercy Of A Rude Stream, by Henry Roth.
Language in velvet.

Buckeye, read ,read and find your own favorite... oh yes, and tell us all about it.

Hi Katelyn... Having just arrived on these forums. perhaps it is not my place asking you to stay . No one here is right, no one here is wrong... Each is right in their "OWN" conviction, and each one of us should honor different views, different beliefs as long as we treat humanity, all of ...

Hi Chris...
I have tried to erase my post...No need to bend the rules for me... I should have read your instructions.