For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice. –
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Another year! From what I’ve been hearing, others are excited as me to turn the page on 2023 and head on into 2024. Not sure what the new year will bring, and I don’t want to speculate. I’m just going to leave it alone but looking forward to the possibilities and a positive direction.

I’m participating in another online book club this year. The Literary Landmark Virtual Book Club, led by the Grant Cottage in Wilton, NY. Two newly published books on U.S. Grant are featured. Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich, and Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant by John Reeves.

At the top of my book stack are Michael Katz’s The Brothers Karamazov, Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, Erskine Caldwell’s God’s Little Acre. I have to wrap-up Stephen Kieran’s, The Curiosity. I’m also lining up embroidery projects to work on in between reading.

New bookcases will soon be arriving at the store. One for the children’s room and one for the green room. One is to help me realize a vision of what I feel used bookstores should have. Then I think I’ll be all set. Well, maybe some wall shelving….