A New Novel

Contessa enjoys recommending good reads. This is a special one. We are half way through this delightful book. We certainly recommend it.

A “Small Town” very wholesome story.  It just feels …..s w e e t !!

Enjoy!!

Ahab’s Wife – a novel

An excerpt from this cherished book…….

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I convey this message…….

Every day I knocked on his door and he on mine. I felt a happiness at our being merely in the same room that transcended any specific language.

Strange it is,  that as I use language, as I shape it into re-creations of people and places, I can feel its inadequacy.  It can serve to describe the past; it cannot describe what I presently feel.

….a plea of understanding. We are friends. Be my friend forever is what is in my heart. My soul mate.

There is only one hand for me, and that is yours. When I will squeeze your hand, then my heart will be….home.

“Be my friend forever” he said.

“Yes, but what am I to do with that flare of feeling that comes when a woman loves a man because they are woman and man?”

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Great literature speaks for itself.  An epic novel.  

 

WALDEN……..a book for our time

Walden May be the most famous act of “social distancing.”

It’s also a lesson on the importance of community while you are sheltering in place.  

In 1845, a shy young man named Henry David Thoreau “went to the woods to live deliberately.” Using old boards from a nearby shanty, he and a few friends built a small cabin near Walden Pond in Concord, Mass. Determined to break a spell of writer’s block, he stayed there more than two years, trying to “suck out all the marrow of life.”

He was not always alone during this time, as some carping high school student will point out. But Thoreau’s experiment, immortalized in “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” became the world’s most famous act of social distancing.

Since the coronavirus quarantine began in the United States tens of millions of us have begun something like Thoreau’s retreat, but with a better Internet connection. As the days accumulate into weeks and then months, the burden of remaining cloistered has surely grown more challenging. Thoreau went there before us. He knew there can be contentment alone, just as often as there can be loneliness among company.

Read this book in spurts….. it will bring new meaning to your COVID isolation.

 

my book guy……I miss u!!!

Little Women on PBS Tonight

Viewing the premier of Little Women right now on PBS. A true classic and we have the book, a vintage copy listed now on Etsy.com at ContessasHome.

Enjoy this wonderful story.

 

 

SOLD – Literary Volume – MONET, A Retrospective

SOLD  today to our new Etsy customer in Chicago. It’s a superb and flawless 1985 edition. Original purchase price was $75.00. Another very happy customer who is presenting this book as a “gift.”  We are thrilled when our books sell. Some of us still love the feel of a book in our hand.

SOLD – Literary Volume – Monet’s Table

SOLD today on Etsy.com by ContessasHome. Thanks to our new buyer in Chicago. $38 USD. Enjoy!!!

SOLD Today – Literary Volume

Sold today on etsy.com  Check it out at ContessasHome  $22

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SOLD TODAY – Literary Volumes, Classic Little Women and Gone With The Wind, Vintage Editions

SOLD Today at ContessasHome on etsy.com to our buyer in Indiana. Purchased at $55.

Check out our other listings on ETSY or on eBay at  ContessasHome 2016

SOLD – Versailles, Illustrated History Volume

Versailles a historical monument; an informative history of the monument, illustrated in color and black and white; a selection of literary excerpts about the monument and a comprehensive reference section. Versailles, the palace is a true Wonder of Man. Built by King Louis XIV because he was in love with a women and a place. Versailles is the most popular visit in France, even to this day This volume is a fresh history lesson and the pictorials definitely take you to this magnificent place. 9″ x 11.5″ x 3/4″ If you have not visited Versailles this book will urge you on to do so. If you have visited this grand chateau, this book is a wonderful memory of the magnificent opulence of this time period in France’s long history.

Sold today on etsy.com at ContessasHome.