He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book.
What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
Emily Dickinson
Books I've Read in 2007:
The Princess and the Wise Woman by George McDonald
Emily Bronte and her Sisters
The Book of Hours by Davis Bunn
Codex by Lev Grossman
The Good Nanny by Benjamin Cheever
The Jane Austen’s Guide to Manners by Josephine Ross
Lileth by George McDonald
Phantastes by George McDonald
Middlemarch by George Eliot
An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Amazing Grace, William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Christ in the Passover by Cecil and Moishe Rosen
The Fight for Jerusalem by Dore Gold
Prometheus Bound by Aescylus
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