Angie's Quilts n Bks n Life

First it was a bad crown - the dentist couldn't see me for three weeks.  By the time they saw me the root was well infected and the whole tooth had to come out.  Then the pain returned and two more molars loose!  Fortunately, it was the trauma from the pulling that caused that and then a week of acetominophen and back to normal for now.  Then a touch of vertigo - one can't do much when that comes on.  I also seem to get an electrolyte imbalance when I eat too much salty food, so another week gone as I tried to deal with that.  In the meantime, I try to keep up with grandson and email and not much else.  Hope to post a quilt picture and a review, but for now just wanted to say I'm still here.  Hope to get back to quilting soon as I found an great new site that has a BOM (block of the Month for you non-quilters) that is really nice and a challenge.  I bought a book entitled Quilt Mavens - Perfect Paper Piecing by Deb Karasik and Janet Mednick (ISBN: 1574329193) which should help me to conquer sharp points.  I've added a few more books to my for sale in the Needlecraft quilting category - once I make the quilt I want and learn the technique, I like to pass these on to other quilters, so check them out at Angie's Bookshelf .

As to reading I have picked up and interesting work by Jared Rosen and David Rippe recommended on the Simple Living Newsletter from the Simple Living Network - It's about turning your world around -from an upside-down world to a right-side up one.  Can't tell you much at this point - just started it- but it could be life changing...

Until later - take care of your teeth!

Just finished a Home of the Brave quilt.  If you have never heard of them, visit http://www.quiltersmuse.com/donald_beld_interview_June_2006.htm and learn about Don, the originator of the project, and his quilting.  The top I just finished is at the quilter's, so when it comes back I'll post a photo.

With that said, I'm now reading An Introduction to the History of Christianity - from the Early Church to the Enlightenment by George Herring.  I'm not far into it, but already I am taken by his approach - he is exploring how Christianity has shaped and been shaped in its turn by the secular world.  I've read several histories of the Christian religion in trying to get a handle on how it grew and what happened at the beginning after Christ.  One was from a historian's perspective and that really created a lot of questions, but made it more real because he tied in so many things mentioned in the Bible with actual events from that period.  Then I read three by Edward Bauman:  An Introduction to the Old Testament (2 vols) and An Introduction to the New Testament.  I highly recommend those to anyone who wants to know the "heart of the matter" without all the scholarly facts that some writers populate their books with on a topic.  It's like they can't help themselves and they want to tell you all the information and their opinion, and the main idea gets lost.  Mr. Herring's book is like Mr. Bauman's.   So far he hasn't covered Christianity in complete detail, but does cover events in chronological order.  I look forward to reading more. 

Some other books I have read and up for new readers can be found at:  http://tinyurl.com/yw88a9

May the Lord be with you, today and always.

Hello!  and welcome to my blog!!  As you may have guessed, I love books and all things about them.  I've been a bibliophile forever - from my mother telling me stories as a toddler, learning to read in 1st grade till now in retirement - treasuring, collecting, and then sometimes  selling them to find a new reader who can enjoy or learn from them.  I didn't experience my first library until I was 11 years old.  I had thought a library was this huge collection my 2nd grade teacher had at the back of the classroom.  The 3ft by 4ft bookcase with its four shelves was crammed with books, and the highlight of my week was to pick out a book to take home for extra reading during the weekend.  I didn't think anyone had more books than that!

Then we moved to a little town (2000 residents) in Southern California in 1956.  The library was about a mile from my Grandmother's house and one summer afternoon, my mom let me go and see it.  Climbing the steps of that Carnegie building, I wondered which room had the library and who could I ask?  I pulled open the glass door and walked in.  I froze just inside the entrance.  There before me were bookshelves crammed with books from floor to roof. Actually they were only about 8 feet tall in that 14 ft ceiling room, but it seemed up to the sky to me...and that was the beginning of my love of books and libraries.

In this blog, I'd like to share my love of books and recommend some I have found to be keepers, some of interest, and some which may be of value, whether for your collection, information, education or leisure time, and that I can no longer keep in my crammed shelves.  I'd like to hear from you also once you've read my reviews of any similar works to those I post.  I'll know then what to look for at book sales, my library, even yard sales.  I pick up books wherever I can find them.