{tinza's tiny good things #9}

{quote from NYC library}

Today's #tinygoodthings is all about reading & books & libraries. I was reminded that a year ago I was in NYC, visiting the New York Public Library and took a snap of this quote. There is nothing quite like a good book... and I'm also in love with libraries. So here are a few pics of some of my fave I have visited. Can't wait to see more once lockdown is over and we've put COVID-19 behind us!

Perhaps these grand libraries aren't such a 'tiny thing' but a good quote and a good book surely are the little pleasures that make life enjoyable!

x

L

{NYC library}

{Univeridade de Coimbra royal library}

{Oxborough Hall}

{Trinity Hall, Cambridge's oldest chained library}

{Kenwood House}

{quotable thursdays-world book day}

I write from a very very snowy England--spring seems to have disappeared.
But today is World Book Day and in honour of that, a wonderful quote from a wonderful author who wrote some of my favourite books:

{reading}

stay warm! & curl up by the fire with a book!
xo
L

{quotable thursdays}

Today's quote is a medieval riddle:

An enemy ended my life, took away

My bodily strength; then he dipped me

In water and drew me out again,

And put me in the sun where I soon shed

All my hair. The knife’s sharp edge

Bit into me once my blemishes had been scraped away;

Fingers folded me and the bird’s feather

Often moved across my brown surface,

Sprinkling useful drops; it swallowed the wood dye

(Part of the stream) and again travelled over me,

Leaving black tracks. Then a man bound me,

He stretched skin over me and adorned me

With gold; thus I am enriched by the wondrous work

Of smiths, wound about with shining metal….

(trans. K. Crossley-Holland, The Exeter Book Riddles, Penguin Classics, revised edition 1993- I found it on the web here))

Can you guess what it is?

It is a book! Of course in the Middle Ages books were made from animal skin (made into parchment).

{Antonello da Messina, St Jerome in His Study, National Gallery, London. Wikimedia commons)

I realise that this is a day late, but yesterday was World Book Day and I had a very busy day of back to back meetings so couldn't get up a quote but wanted to make sure I celebrated books!

If you read my blog regularly you'll know I love books!

{reading}

Happy Reading!

xo

L

{quotable thursdays}

{library love}

{the library at Oxborough Hall--I took this pic last year when we visited}

{love books!}

for more pics of books & libraries, check out my pinterest board.

xo,
L