A River of Books

Books have been an integral and significant part of my life as far back as my memory goes. My mother told me once that even before I could read I would lay on my belly on the floor and look at books, ones with pictures of course, but she said also I would look at ones with only words. I remember once, as a teenager, thinking that if I read enough and made notes I could figure out the nature of the universe. Well, I've given up on that, and enjoy the mystery of it all, but books are still a daily adventure for me. I do live in a river of books, finding new ones for myself and to sell just about every day.  I just found one of the best ones I've seen on creating food items with chocolate, a nicely illustrated one on learning to use a microscope creatively, a interesting history of the French people and a couple of historical novels. We're going to keep the chocolate one around and see if we can cook up something sweet and delicious when my granddaughter comes to visit. Below are a few interesting books that recently came into my hands. I'll try to put up some more pictures soon. The Gourd Instrument one includes a CD. I found a couple of Lathe turned objects books and also a couple of other ceramic techniques ones besides the one pictured.