The collection

Last nite we spent some time in the den in our basement. We haven’t really hung out down there since we moved in to our place. Steven wanted to try out his new microphone that he bought so I went right for the bookshelf that we have down there to start a new book. I picked up Whitney Otto’s A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity. I have been meaning to read this book for so long. Because of a woman named Jill. We worked together at a book store about 4 years ago. I loved when we had the same shift. She had great glasses, a sweet style and beautiful red hair. We were always recommending books to each other and this in one she highly recommended. I remember writing it down on a post it. A year later I came across the note and smiled. Kept the title in my head for the next time I was at a used book store. I bought it about two years ago and I remember starting it but not finishing it. Last nite I started it again and I am almost halfway through, it’s so good.
I’ve started writing a little bit lately. At nite in our office since it’s finally complete. I re-read a journal I started a couple years ago and one entry talked about not having a good space to read in the apartment I was living. I feel so lucky because now I have a whole lotta spaces in our cute little cottage.