What I'm Reading Right Now. 

 A little tough to read (physically) - especially for us anti-bookbenders - but super cool. The Strange Library - Haruki Murakami.

On the Shelves in Oxford this week you can either go Backpacking with the Saints or spend your time Living with the Stars - or both! Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. We are quite literally not who we were years, weeks, or even days ago. Backpacking with the Saints is an intimate narrative of backpacking alone through the wilderness as a spiritual practice.

Photos by Jack Campbell-Smith for Oxford University Press.

Cat Art: Your Own Custom 8x10 framed Cat Portrait Painting from your photos

Middlemarch, George Eliot

Dinner and book number 8 for the year.

Planning for the future with my favorite planner from Lavendaire. So glad to have it after its turbulent journey on the high seas.

A new place to spend money I don't have.

Three highly-anticipated crisp, brown packages arrived today via airmail  from Persephone Books. The Far Cry by Emma Smith (1949), High Wages by Dorothy Whipple (1930), and Mariana by Monica Dickens (1940). The tie in end-paper bookmarks featuring period textile patterns are the cherry on top. 

It came! And it’s snowing - so it’s pretty much Christmas right now.