Friday, April 13, 2007

This Bequest of Wings

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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