What's On My Book-shelf

What's On My Bookshelf

There's two book-shelves in my room, both full and running over. Needless to say I love books, I think all writers do. I started collecting about the same time I started writing. I have love stories, poetry such as Browning, Shakespear, Sandburg, Emmerson, Poe, "Quote The Raven" I love this one. Some are so deep, I find myselF reading it two and three times, to try to understand what the Dickens they are saying. "Pun" I mostly buy the very old ones. I have some with mouse eaten corners, good to see others enjoy what I have found. I have a lot of literature books. Now thats deep. I have so many, I won't even try to name any of them. My favorite book, I think, is a book I picked up recently, called Mrs. Mike. There are three reasons I love it. One is, that my great uncle produced the movie, The second is, I was about the same age as the young girl in the book, when I first read it. and the third is, it is a timeless love story. Girls today can relate to the life she lived.

I think the strangest book I have found is a 106 year old cook book. It has 365 Desserts in it. I can honestly say they look good but I've not tried any of them yet. One of these days I'll get brave. I'm not one for cooking now days.

I have a nice variety of books, and am always looking for others. I hit the yard sales and sometimes if I'm lucky our local library has a sale, mostly I love the yard sales the best. You never know what your going to find. I love the older books as they told a story. Not like some of the things you read today. Well, I'll just keep looking and making more room. I'm sure there will be others added to my collection. I just pray that my Grand-children will enjoy them as much as I have.

Prince Albert Pudding

One-forth Lb. butter
1/4 Lb. sugar
1/4 Lb. raisins stoned
2 eggs
1/4 Lb. flour

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the raisins, and stir in the flour very lightly, line buttered mould with strips of candied lemon peel, and steam 1 1/2 hours. Serve with a sauce.

This is listed for May 3rd.

@ K.L. Farnum

Story ID:	1250
Written by:	K. L. Farnum (bio, contact, other stories)
Story type:	Musings, Essays and Such
Location:	Vine Grove U. S. A.
Year:	2006
Person:	Me