And So It Begins…
January 1, 2010 @ 8:43 pm | Filed under: Books
“For some weeks now I have been engaged in dispersing the contents of this apartment, trying to persuade hundreds of inanimate objects to scatter and leave me alone. It is not a simple matter.”
—”Good-bye to Forty-eighth Street,”
Essays of E. B. White, page one
Can you say, ‘had me at hello’?
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Penny in VT says:
lol I totally thought you were pregnant with that post title!
Good luck with the decluttering… and anything else…
lol 🙂
On January 2, 2010 at 5:54 am
MelanieB says:
resisting the urge to add another book to my tbr pile… no I will not look to see if my library has a copy. I won’t.
On January 2, 2010 at 5:55 am
Kat with a K says:
Okay, this prompted me to pull out my copy (which I think is actually my father’s copy that I shamelessly stole at some point). I think I’ll join you.
On January 2, 2010 at 6:20 am
Melissa Wiley says:
Penny, LOL, I just meant another year of book gluttony. I got the book of White essays for Christmas, thanks to my shameless hinting here on the blog… 🙂
On January 2, 2010 at 7:12 am
Penny in VT says:
I don’t blame you for hinting – it looks fantastic. I’m trying to track a copy down right now through interlibrary loan!
On January 2, 2010 at 8:30 am
Ellie says:
Oh, dear this quote has me giggling.
On January 2, 2010 at 11:12 am
Yvonne says:
Oh, don’t you just love him? I’m hopelessly smitten. Read whole paragraphs aloud as I do, some children will gather around, others will raise their eyebrows, shake their heads, and walk away slowly, backward.
On January 2, 2010 at 12:45 pm