While I've collected most of my books due to loving history and information, I must admit, there's several I've gotten due to nostalgia.
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While I've collected most of my books due to loving history and information, I must admit, there's several I've gotten due to nostalgia.
It‘s here! #BookMail and #BlameItOnLitsy selection I saw @TheAromaofBooks post about. I peeked inside at various pages and it‘s gorgeous. May just read in small bites. I‘m not painting any time soon, so I can savor the advice here.
pickI first bought, read, and loved this book back in 2020. Now that we're getting ready to move and I have an entire house to update, it seemed like a great time to revisit it. Atwood just does a fantastic job with this book. She gives you the science behind color and our perception of it, then moves into the more emotional aspect of it - somehow, she stays out of woo-woo land by encouraging readers to ground the way they feel about colors with ⬇
pickThis was interesting. I liked reading about different buildings, like the Mitaka lofts and the Fable hospital, and the scientific theories and research that went into their design. We spend a lot of time in indoor spaces, whether it‘s school, home, work, the office, or the gym, so it was fun to look at how their flow and design and access to or incorporation of natural elements can impact our health, mood, and thought processes.
Power is out (storming big time currently), so it's onto the back porch we go to wait for it to come back on. At least the storm knocked the temps down by a good 15 or 20 degrees.
Quote from a one-nan show called "Bibliomania" by Roger Rosenblatt. The quote was in a coffee table book on libraries.
In the spirit of Kramer's "coffee table book about coffee tables," here's a "library book about libraries."
