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Do you mean physically closest to me at this moment?Cary Grant: Dark Angel (sitting on top of Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe) and A Prayer for Owen Meany (sitting on top of And Quiet Flows the Don) are about equidistant though in different directions.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World is right next to me.
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves . I should keep this by me at all times in case I lose myself...
My coffee table books remain the same (Cary Grant: Dark Angel and Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe) and on my sofa back, Black Plumes (on top of And Quiet Flows the Don).
Faber Book of Utopias I'm searching for a better life.... Or at least a distraction from this one. It's Sunday evening and I can't put off report writing any longer.
"Bing Crosby: Call Me Lucky" by Bing Crosby is opposite me.
Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth a Mother's Day gift from a daughter who knows her mum is actually interested in public health!
By my foot is "Dragonfly in Amber" by Diana Gabaldon. It's the second one in the Outlander series, easily one of my favourite series.
Brooklyn wrote: "By my foot is "Dragonfly in Amber" by Diana Gabaldon. It's the second one in the Outlander series, easily one of my favourite series."Mmm love those books too.
Right next to me is my current read Bird Box by Josh Malerman.About 3ft away is my other read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. :)
I've been meaning to read Anna Karenina :)Next to the Bing Crosby book, again, opposite me, is a stack of Agatha Christie novels, including a first edition of Dumb Witness and The Hollow.
I have some books on my Nook, Matched, and Across The Universe
I have but two real books within view:Leaves of Fire
The Bone Clocks
Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you!
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opened.That's close by, but in view I've got my whole library: over 3000 volumes!!!
Niiiiice, Laura T!! :DFor me right in front are:
"The Audrey Hepburn Treasures" by Ellen Erwin and "Jimmy Stewart: a biography." By Marc Eliot
PD James - The Skull Beneath The Skin
Hannah wrote: "Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel"Not many better books to have by you.
For me, The Tempest is by my side together with an adapted script.
A little pile on the garden tableApple Tree Yard
On top of
The History of Mr. Polly
On top of
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature
Well, my Kindle is closest to me so hundreds of books! But ignoring that, The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin is on my end table.
The Haunting of Hill House - I always take a book with me in my messenger bag (or my 'man purse' as my wife refers to it) that way I can read during my lunch break if I so wish.
The Crooked Sixpence top of my bedside pile - rediscovered this impulsive purchase from last year and now nearly halfway thru'.
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan A very fascinating book. I have to keep quoting new delights from it here and there.
The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My ChildlessnessA GR Giveaway win that is turning out to be a very good read.
The book sitting close to me that I will read - one of these days - is How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster. I skimmed the pages. It is a lively and absorbing book. I'm just not ready.
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