Savoring Sunday Afternoon

I had double discount on my membership card at the bookstore this weekend and so bought The Bookman's Tale - one that I've been eyeing for awhile but was trying to wait for my birthday!  An this afternoon we sat in the living room, reading and having snacks.  Last time we were at the grocery store, Kate found this Door County Cherry Cheddar Cheese - I know, it sounds weird but it is VERY good!  The book is so very much what I want to be reading right now.  You know when you start reading a book and you just want to lose yourself in it?  I almost (almost) want to stop reading - to drag the experience out longer.  The story starts with a man, a bookseller, in a used bookstore.  He finds a book that he flips through and a picture, a small painting, flutters out from the pages...and there the story starts.  I love it!  And I've found treasures in books before.

These are little tiny photos that were stuck in the pages of a book I got at an auction years ago.  Another book (I can't remember if it was the same box of auction books or another) had these photos and postcard in it:

Ad the inscriptions in old books:

The inscription above is from a copy of Julius Ceasar.  The inscription below is in a book, a copy of Beau Geste,  I found in the chicken coop of my grandparents farm.  It must have been a Christmas gift to my great grandfather.