Crotchetymama (Judith) - Still Buried in Books
Discussie2016 ROOT Challenge - (Read Our Own Tomes)
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10wllight
Trying again this year! Last year I did pretty well, but I also did pretty well in acquiring books. I'm a champ!
In fact, sadly, I acquired more books than I read for ROOT 2015. I am using a counter this year for books read. If I can make it work....o.O
I should probably use one for books acquired, too! :D
In fact, sadly, I acquired more books than I read for ROOT 2015. I am using a counter this year for books read. If I can make it work....o.O
I should probably use one for books acquired, too! :D
3MissWatson
Welcome back! And if it's any consolation, I also buy more than I read. It's a very hard habit to shake.
4cyderry
>1 0wllight: Judith, I'm glad you're back! I found that when I started keeping track of the books I acquired, I was a bit more selective maybe more patient, thinking I could wait to get it until I was really ready to read it. Now I usually only buy/acquire when they are on sale or Free! Somehow I still get a bunch of new ones, but not as many.
5avanders
Welcome back & Happy 2016 ROOTing!
I also acquired WAY more books than I read last year. Hoping to do MUCH better this year!
I also acquired WAY more books than I read last year. Hoping to do MUCH better this year!
7rabbitprincess
Welcome back and good luck with your challenge!
90wllight
>3 MissWatson: Maybe we're all just doomed to find happiness in a bookstore? Not so bad, really. lol
>4 cyderry: I'm glad I'm back, too! Thank you...I think I am getting a bit more selective, too...odd, isn't it?
>4 cyderry: I'm glad I'm back, too! Thank you...I think I am getting a bit more selective, too...odd, isn't it?
100wllight
>5 avanders: If I don't do much better my most likely demise is being caught under an avalanche of reading material!
>6 connie53: Thank you, and it's so lovely to "see" all of you. I am having ticker problems, but back to the drawing board! It won't let me update it...weird.
>6 connie53: Thank you, and it's so lovely to "see" all of you. I am having ticker problems, but back to the drawing board! It won't let me update it...weird.
110wllight
>7 rabbitprincess: Thank you, Princess. : )
>8 Tess_W: Good luck to you, too! I hope we all meet our goals this year.
>8 Tess_W: Good luck to you, too! I hope we all meet our goals this year.
120wllight
>6 connie53: Got it fixed! \o/ Thanks for posting that ticker thread!
13connie53
>12 0wllight: you are welcome!
14avanders
>10 0wllight: lol many of us may end up going that way... ;)
150wllight
The most comforting thing about this group is that I am not the only bookoholic in the world!
170wllight
>16 lkernagh: and to yours!
180wllight
I'm definitely reaching peak tsundoku here! What a great word...book hoarding is insidious. Still, I could read for two years between my TBR and my library. That counts for something. And I'm in good company...Umberto Eco: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
190wllight
The Angle Quickest for Flight....has anyone else read it? Fascinating book. I bought it over two years ago. And I now wish I could read it again for the first time. Good characters, good plot, unexpected turns. Plot is essentially stealing a book from the Vatican. It is not what it seems to be on the surface. A bit On the Road meets the grail quest. 5 stars for me.
20Caramellunacy
>19 0wllight:, I haven't read it, but that sounds incredibly interesting!
22avanders
>20 Caramellunacy: ditto! sounds interesting!
230wllight
>20 Caramellunacy: It really is good. Highly recommend the book mostly because it is unexpected and the language is just lovely. If you find it...try Amazon?...and read it, do let me know what you think? Library might have it too.
>21 nebula21: So we're both going under, but what a way to go!
>21 nebula21: So we're both going under, but what a way to go!
240wllight
>22 avanders: I loved it, but then you could probably tell! o.O I really wish I could read it again for the first time. I love that feeling.
25avanders
>24 0wllight: I love finding books like that :)
270wllight
Connie gave me a link to a Joyce group, but since it has become dormant I thought to post this article here. Hope someone finds it who likes Joyce! I thought the article fascinating: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/scientists-reveal-multifractal-stru...
Thanks, Connie!
Thanks, Connie!
290wllight
>28 connie53: I have always said "Let sleeping groups lie." ;-)
310wllight
One more ROOT pulled! The Light of Day was good...I now want to see Topkapi, again. It was my husband's favorite movie ever. I liked the book about 4 stars worth.
330wllight
>32 avanders: But still trying to solve the conundrum: how do I keep my new books (Holiday gifts, etc) from turning into ROOTS while I am reading ROOTS? :D
34avanders
>33 0wllight: ... Sounds like a win-win to me! ;)
35Jackie_K
>33 0wllight: I personally solved it by counting new books as ROOTs too. Not everyone will agree with that method though! :D
360wllight
>35 Jackie_K: Ooooo, I like that! Shallow ROOTs are easy to pull. Good thinking!
370wllight
Really good mystery...Bones and Silence. I do love Dalziel and Pascoe, but this was particularly satisfying in characters and complexity and surprises. Also, one more ROOT pulled. (Though not a really deep one!)
380wllight
Found a mystery on my Kindle never listed on my LT! How it slipped my net, I can't say. Anyway, good book. A Room Full of Bones is now listed and read...pretty good for having bought it back in 2014! Efficient.
I enjoy archaeological fiction, and Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, single mother, brilliant academic, and just as neurotic as I am, is a good "heroine". The plots are always interesting. This particularly so.
I enjoy archaeological fiction, and Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, single mother, brilliant academic, and just as neurotic as I am, is a good "heroine". The plots are always interesting. This particularly so.
39rabbitprincess
>38 0wllight: Yay, a surprise book that is also good!
I love Dalziel and Pascoe too. I also enjoy the TV series whenever I catch reruns on PBS. Warren Clarke was perfect as Dalziel.
I love Dalziel and Pascoe too. I also enjoy the TV series whenever I catch reruns on PBS. Warren Clarke was perfect as Dalziel.
40Tess_W
>38 0wllight: For some reason I regularly forget to put ebooks on LT. I'm glad it was a good read for you!
410wllight
>39 rabbitprincess: Agreed...Clarke was quite perfect for the part. I keep thinking about buying the CDs is they are available. Have you read Peter May? I love his Lewis series...The Blackhouse. Just for the second one...not a ROOT yet. Yet.
>40 Tess_W: Glad it's not just me! I know...I just buy the Kindle book, it goes to the Kindle, I never think about entering it. I had a grand catch-up last year (?) or the year before...maybe.My mind is going. I can feel it. :D
>40 Tess_W: Glad it's not just me! I know...I just buy the Kindle book, it goes to the Kindle, I never think about entering it. I had a grand catch-up last year (?) or the year before...maybe.My mind is going. I can feel it. :D
42rabbitprincess
>41 0wllight: I've read one of Peter May's standalones, Entry Island, and quite liked it. Really neat setting! And I have his latest, Runaway, out from the library. One of these days I'll get to the Lewis trilogy!
430wllight
Short one just finished: The Damned by Algernon Blackwood. Quite enjoyable...I like him for ghostly stuff.
440wllight
>42 rabbitprincess: I'll try Entry Island...it looks good. I hope our e-library has it. Thanks! I have not yet gotten to the rest of his work. I am really really trying not to buy any more books. Really! o.O
450wllight
8 ROOTs pulled! This one was Dead Lagoon and was just as excellent as the other Aurelio Zen stories I have read. I have to find Ratking. I hope the library will have it. I never got to read that one. 4 stars, solid.
470wllight
>46 avanders: It would be better if I read ONLY ROOTs instead of reading library books and books that don't qualify. Ah well...what fun is it if you don't follow your whims when reading?
I was reading your review of NOD...Adrian Barnes. I think I would like it. Thanks!
I was reading your review of NOD...Adrian Barnes. I think I would like it. Thanks!
48avanders
>47 0wllight: yep! My sister is currently reading my copy right now.. hope you both like it!
(and I agree on both points - would be nice to read only ROOTs, but then again, whims are what makes reading enjoyable!)
(and I agree on both points - would be nice to read only ROOTs, but then again, whims are what makes reading enjoyable!)
500wllight
>49 connie53: Good thing, too! We have a new used book store in town! \o/
520wllight
>51 connie53: Books Anonymous forever! \o I will try, Connie. One day at a time. :D
530wllight
The Awakening just done, and I really enjoyed it. Yes, a bit old fashioned, but a true description of change in women, I think. 4 stars definitely.
54Soupdragon
>45 0wllight: good to hear the quality of the Aurelio Zens persists. Ratking is the only one I have read -one of this year's ROOTs, though I then immediately bought the next in series so my TBR remained the same!
550wllight
>54 Soupdragon: And that is exactly my problem! I can't stop laughing at the idea of getting to the bottom of a TBR pile. Ah, well...it's a mild, inexpensive addiction compared to some. : )
560wllight
Just finished a mystery and it was well aged! The Sign of the Book was good. I always enjoy these mysteries because the characters are interesting and, most important, it is a book mystery. I love books about books. This one deals with book dealers, antiquarians, murder, and forgery. It was grand. 4 stars.
58connie53
>56 0wllight: Sounds great, Judith! No translation though!
590wllight
>58 connie53: Darn. I really do think everything should be translated into everything...well, now that I say that, hmmmm. Only the good stuff. And I get to choose...well, now that I say that, hmmm! :D Maybe I am not wise enough for that responsibility! *second thoughts* My life is full of those. It was a good book, though, for sure.
600wllight
Another root pulled! Michael Moorcock's Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand. A compilation of three shorter novels of Corum's attempt to save the world...well, not really. But his world, for sure. Good fantasy as always from this writer, and I do like Corum. I don't know why it took so long to read this...2 years waiting on the shelf. The first one was excellent.
***1/2
***1/2
610wllight
#12 is The Spy's Bedside Book by the brothers Greene. I liked it. It is a quick read, and funny, and also has vintage stories in it. Hints for working spies abound. Enjoyable. ***
62connie53
>59 0wllight: LOL. If every book was translated my problem would be so much bigger! My TBR is now 540 books (all in Dutch). Imagine what would happen if the choice of books to buy would increase with all books translated.
630wllight
>62 connie53:
"When in danger, when in doubt,
Run in circles, scream, and shout!"???
I see what you are saying...I don't know what I was thinking! *face palm*
"When in danger, when in doubt,
Run in circles, scream, and shout!"???
I see what you are saying...I don't know what I was thinking! *face palm*
64avanders
>62 connie53: lol that is the silver lining for sure!
650wllight
Finished Colin Cotterill's second book about Dr. Siri. Liked it a lot. Thirty-three Teeth and who knew that number was oddly sacred and meaningful. Buddha had 33, as did a couple of holy men. Now Dr. Siri, who is really nifty in a lot of ways. I enjoyed this book. I like the characters because they are well-drawn and not boring...which means, of course, that they are 3 dimensional and react in realistic ways...well...realistic in a human way tempered by individual idiosyncracies. ***1/2
660wllight
Two more done: A Dedicated Man and Dandelion Wine. Dedicated Man was good...Characters, well done and the mystery not too easy. ***
Dandelion Wine was great...I enjoyed every word and found myself re-reading parts of it. I do love Bradbury, and am surprised that it took so long for this one. *****
Dandelion Wine was great...I enjoyed every word and found myself re-reading parts of it. I do love Bradbury, and am surprised that it took so long for this one. *****
67Tess_W
>66 0wllight: Glad you liked Dandelion Wine, it's on my TBR pile. I also enjoyed Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
680wllight
>67 Tess_W: I liked that one about 5 stars worth, too. I was a little disappointed with the movie, though...I think because some of the flavor of reading was missing. Bradbury is really good at evocation of times, places, moods, etc.
I bet you'll love Dandelion Wine!
I bet you'll love Dandelion Wine!
690wllight
Been doing a lot of library books lately...but #16 on my TBR is just finished: The Raphael Affair. Really excellent mystery with a beautifully unravelled ending. I had not read the first book in this series, and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. **** and happy to recommend to those who like a good mystery set in Rome, etc.
70avanders
>69 0wllight: me too... I keep trying to get through all my library books and NOT check out more, but then I get all excited by all the books and I take a bunch home ;p
710wllight
>70 avanders: Temptation is everywhere. :D
72connie53
Just dropping in and waving, Judith!
>70 avanders: that's why I handed in my Library card a long time ago. All those temptations.
>70 avanders: that's why I handed in my Library card a long time ago. All those temptations.
730wllight
>72 connie53: Waving back cheerfully...not easy with a book in each hand! ...and I do believe that handing in your library card is like cutting the cable on the TV? I did that, but can't even contemplate life without a library card.
74Jackie_K
>72 connie53: >73 0wllight: I still have my card but very rarely get books out for myself as I want to prioritise my ROOTs. However, it is also really important to me to support the library, so my daughter has a card and we get books out regularly for her.
750wllight
>74 Jackie_K: That makes good sense, Jackie. I always felt that way, too...having children who read a lot is so lovely, isn't it? And later on, I found, they are such good company! :D And now...well, I read books from the library but not from my TBR. Gotta ration time differently, I think! lol
76connie53
I want to prioritise my ROOTs
>74 Jackie_K: That's why I did hand in my card. Maybe I will get one for my granddaughter some time in the future.
>74 Jackie_K: That's why I did hand in my card. Maybe I will get one for my granddaughter some time in the future.
770wllight
>76 connie53: I love this about expectation...
"Since bibliophiles are happy to acknowledge the absurdity, the obese impracticality of gathering more books than there are days to read them, one’s collection must be about more than remembering—it must be about expectation also. Your personal library, swollen and hulking about you, is the promise of betterment and pleasure to come, a giddy anticipation, a reminder of the joyous work left to do, a prompt for those places to which your intellect and imagination want to roam." ~ William Giraldi (New Republic, April, 2015)
>74 Jackie_K: If I had grandchildren, I would get them a library card rather than a video game for sure! (And I would take them every week for a book and to the park for a romp.) Video games close us off from the world, I think, while library cards open a world for us. Your daughter is lucky.
"Since bibliophiles are happy to acknowledge the absurdity, the obese impracticality of gathering more books than there are days to read them, one’s collection must be about more than remembering—it must be about expectation also. Your personal library, swollen and hulking about you, is the promise of betterment and pleasure to come, a giddy anticipation, a reminder of the joyous work left to do, a prompt for those places to which your intellect and imagination want to roam." ~ William Giraldi (New Republic, April, 2015)
>74 Jackie_K: If I had grandchildren, I would get them a library card rather than a video game for sure! (And I would take them every week for a book and to the park for a romp.) Video games close us off from the world, I think, while library cards open a world for us. Your daughter is lucky.
78bragan
>77 0wllight: That quote is utterly marvelous. I want to print it out and hang it over my bookshelves!
79Tess_W
>77 0wllight: Great Quote!
>74 Jackie_K: I have 6 grandchildren and I have bought them all a Kindle registered to me, so I pay one monthly fee of $9.99 for all the books I can read! (And I manage parental controls) I also have got them all a library card and we go once a week.
>74 Jackie_K: I have 6 grandchildren and I have bought them all a Kindle registered to me, so I pay one monthly fee of $9.99 for all the books I can read! (And I manage parental controls) I also have got them all a library card and we go once a week.
800wllight
>78 bragan: Glad you like it! I do love his essays.
810wllight
>79 Tess_W: Thanks, Tess...and it doesn't even feel like rationalization! :D
82Jackie_K
>79 Tess_W: That's a great idea! I will bear it in mind for when she's older.
83avanders
>72 connie53: handed in your library card! Whoa, that's dedication!
>74 Jackie_K: that's what I'm working on ... balancing focusing on ROOTs & supporting the library... it's been difficult... Your plan seems to be perfect!
>77 0wllight: a lovely quote!
I agree re video games.. my husband played a lot of video games growing up and you can definitely tell the difference between his and my reactions to stress and/or downtime... it's a difficult habit to break!
>79 Tess_W: great idea! It makes sense when there are that many people reading :) I hesitate to pay $9.99/mo for my own purposes since I have so many physical copies in the house to read, but maybe when we have kids I'll find it worth it!
>74 Jackie_K: that's what I'm working on ... balancing focusing on ROOTs & supporting the library... it's been difficult... Your plan seems to be perfect!
>77 0wllight: a lovely quote!
I agree re video games.. my husband played a lot of video games growing up and you can definitely tell the difference between his and my reactions to stress and/or downtime... it's a difficult habit to break!
>79 Tess_W: great idea! It makes sense when there are that many people reading :) I hesitate to pay $9.99/mo for my own purposes since I have so many physical copies in the house to read, but maybe when we have kids I'll find it worth it!
84connie53
>83 avanders: I handed it in a very very long time ago, Ava. When I started working again and earned my own money I was so glad I could buy books again, For ME, to HAVE.
>77 0wllight: Great quote and so true! I get a whole lot of happiness dusting, rearranging and watching my books around me. Wondering and thinking about my next book. Keeping track of my books on LT. Talking about books with my fellow ROOTers and my Dutch bookfriends. It's not just the reading that is a great part of me. It's everything books bring in my live.
Well Fiene will definitely get books from grandmom. I just bought 2 more to give her tomorrow when we go and visit her. Peet said: "she can't read yet!!". Well Duhhhh. I can read to her and we can watch the pictures (once she opens her eyes). I doesn't matter she just one week old. ;-))
>77 0wllight: Great quote and so true! I get a whole lot of happiness dusting, rearranging and watching my books around me. Wondering and thinking about my next book. Keeping track of my books on LT. Talking about books with my fellow ROOTers and my Dutch bookfriends. It's not just the reading that is a great part of me. It's everything books bring in my live.
Well Fiene will definitely get books from grandmom. I just bought 2 more to give her tomorrow when we go and visit her. Peet said: "she can't read yet!!". Well Duhhhh. I can read to her and we can watch the pictures (once she opens her eyes). I doesn't matter she just one week old. ;-))
85Jackie_K
>84 connie53: I loved loved loved reading to my daughter when she was tiny, and gradually seeing her reactions. Some of them made her smile and laugh from really early on! Now she's older, I love how sometimes we'll finish a book and she'll immediately say "Again! Again!" (even though I'm pretty sure this evening's "Again! Again!" was more about trying to get out of going to bed!).
860wllight
>84 connie53: I remember when having a library card was life-saving. No money, working two jobs for college...I really needed that card! And I read to my daughter when she was new and right on through. Sometimes she still wants me to read a bit. I think the sound of words and voice associated with love just makes babies bloom.
87avanders
>84 connie53: I can imagine how great that must have felt! It makes sense... I just think I couldn't do it myself.. ;)
And I agree w/ you... just because she can't read yet doesn't mean she doesn't need books! ;)
And I agree w/ you... just because she can't read yet doesn't mean she doesn't need books! ;)
880wllight
Question??? I just finished a book that I have been wanting to read for over two years. But it belongs to my daughter and is on her bookshelves. Does it count as a ROOT?
89rabbitprincess
>88 0wllight: I count books belonging to my boyfriend as ROOTS because they are living in the same house as my own ROOTS. Does that help?
90Tess_W
>88 0wllight: Of course! You make the rules!
910wllight
>89 rabbitprincess: Thank you, Princess! I guess I can't (in my own opinion) since she has her own apartment and I just visit. I kind of thought it was stretching a point. Thanks for helping me clarify!
>90 Tess_W: Thanks, Tess...maybe I asked the community because I wasn't sure about my parameters. I really enjoyed the book, Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar. But I didn't buy it and I could have read it any time. Guess my rules are: on my shelves, over 3 months old, unread and languishing.
>90 Tess_W: Thanks, Tess...maybe I asked the community because I wasn't sure about my parameters. I really enjoyed the book, Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar. But I didn't buy it and I could have read it any time. Guess my rules are: on my shelves, over 3 months old, unread and languishing.
92rabbitprincess
>91 0wllight: That's fair. As much as I am trying to consolidate my and my parents' libraries, I wouldn't consider their books ROOTS either because I've moved out. Any books of mine that are still at their place, though, I count as ROOTS.
Nevertheless it is good that you read a book you've been wanting to read for a while, even if it isn't a ROOT :)
Nevertheless it is good that you read a book you've been wanting to read for a while, even if it isn't a ROOT :)
94connie53
>93 Tess_W: That's a strange post;-))
>91 0wllight: Guess my rules are: on my shelves, over 3 months old, unread and languishing.
Same here!
>91 0wllight: Guess my rules are: on my shelves, over 3 months old, unread and languishing.
Same here!
95Tess_W
>93 Tess_W: LOL, must have been in mid-thought and been interrupted!
960wllight
>95 Tess_W: I thought that might have happened. My train of thought often gets delayed at the station! I've read so many library books this year that my recent acquisitions are soon to be ROOTs. Terrifying.
One of my most interesting library reads has been a compilation of Jan Morris' travel essays from Rolling Stone. Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone. Wanted to read it but couldn't find a copy anywhere but the library. I would still like to buy it...excellent book. ****
One of my most interesting library reads has been a compilation of Jan Morris' travel essays from Rolling Stone. Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone. Wanted to read it but couldn't find a copy anywhere but the library. I would still like to buy it...excellent book. ****
970wllight
Follow up on Memoirs of Hadrian: My daughter gave me the book! So now it is on my shelf AND it is read. Oh my. It is a very good book...but still not a ROOT! lol
98Tess_W
>97 0wllight: a BB for me!
990wllight
>98 Tess_W: Oh, wonderful! I love those
1000wllight
A Tranquil Star was just wonderful...full of the kind of short stories I do love. Highly recommend it...5 stars worth. I never read his short fiction before and it was good.
1010wllight
Finally tore myself away from library books, and glad I did, too. Just finished Laidlaw which is a Glasgow based mystery...very good, well written, good characters, and relentlessly glaswegian. I approve. I enjoyed it all, and that includes the accents and the local color. Try it, you'll like it!
102rabbitprincess
>101 0wllight: That's a good'un! Glad you liked it :)
104rabbitprincess
It is indeed. If only there were more. But thank heavens he did write what he did, because Laidlaw is what inspired Ian Rankin, and from there we got our current excellent crop of "Tartan Noir" writers.
1050wllight
oh...I did not know that! Thank you, princess...and I love the (sub) genre so much. I will request the next one for my birthday. I do have such an accommodating daughter. :-)
1060wllight
Passage was an odd book. I know it was well received, but I am not sure how I feel about it yet. a tentative ***
1080wllight
>107 connie53: Good morning, Connie! Beautiful day here for gardening. Nice to "see" you.
1090wllight
#21 was The Forest and the Sea and i liked it a lot. 4 stars...and lovely to read in the summer while I am so immersed in the garden and walking.
110avanders
>101 0wllight: sounds fun! Glad you enjoyed your ROOT so much :)
>109 0wllight: Sounds like a wonderful book to read while in the garden :)
>109 0wllight: Sounds like a wonderful book to read while in the garden :)
1110wllight
#22 was just not a very good read, sadly. I got it for free, and read it...maybe 2 stars? Maybe? The Tenth Chamber Shallow characters, neanderthals, cro magnons, templars, immortality herbs, and a monastery, and, and, Nazi treasure train! Yep. Pulled all that stuff not quite together and left me rolling my eyes like a frightened horse. Oh, and a wholly unnecessary epilogue that created the possibility for a sequel. Which I will assiduously not read. Just sayin'.
112connie53
>111 0wllight: Right, we understand totally! ;-))
1130wllight
>112 connie53: Well...to be fair, other people on amazon, etc, seem to think the book is four stars...sometimes I think I shouldn't write harshly about any book. Not sure. I know you do get it, though, that I am totally not reading anymore by this guy. lol
1140wllight
#23 is Elric: Song of the Black Sword and was a compilation of a number of the Elric books. I liked it. Moorcock creates curiously compelling worlds and characters. I'm glad The Dreamthief's Daughter is on my TBR since it also has Elric in it, and I like him.
1150wllight
#24 Hearing with the Eye was great! photos, and philosophy were so satisfying. Inspired me to work harder in the studio, too.
1160wllight
The ticker is wonky. I always have to reload to get the correct number. I wonder if there is another ticker site that would work better? I'm going to look, I guess.
1190wllight
>118 avanders: Thank you! I'm working on Sicily: Three Thousand Years of History for the last one. It is about 500 pages, but so far fascinating.
120avanders
That's quite a tome to finish off your ROOT goal with -- it will be quite the accomplishment!
1210wllight
This is not a ROOT, but I just finished Sally Mann's memoir: Hold Still. What an interesting woman, and a really excellent writer. She talks lucidly about her life as shown in her work. She is a marvelous photographer, and I will undoubtedly read the book again when I can buy a hardcover. I got it from the library in a digital edition which worked very well on my tablet app. ***** and if I could give it more stars I would. Very satisfying, beautiful book.