Shelley's Take Two - Reading off my own shelves - 2023 - page 5

Home from a week in Montreal and I figured I better start a new thread now because next week I will be back there again. Let's just say, not fun times...

I call this first one *Bliss*. Theo was on my lap and we were having an under-the-chin-scritching session. Then I moved my hand, and he moved the angle of his head and suddenly, his *King of the Jungle* DNA just appeared! All that's missing is the big mane!





And equal time to Owen. Only 2 and a half years in the making.



Owen to Theo: I'm sitting here, buddy. You can't have this spot. Go away.

Complete with tail swishing and a low growl I could hear from my own spot on the couch.

Theo went away.

(used to be Theo would do this stare and Owen would jump down and run away. Not any more!)

As per usual, everyone reminds me to be good to myself when I am in Montreal, being stressed. The only thing I can really do *for myself* when I am there is to go for a walk. And all walks lead to Bonder Books. Here's the haul:



The author Gregor Craigie was (maybe still is, who knows) a radio journalist. I remember him from CBC radio. So this book intrigued me. The others just appealed for different reasons.

And when I got home, I went to the bookstore at the mall. Of course I did:



The bottom three books are by Canadian authors.

Now, all I have to do is read them. My reading has been dismal. I just can't turn off the brain enough to focus on reading. I did manage to finish 2 books and am currently reading, and really enjoying, Lessons in Chemistry.

I will do a short review of the 2 I completed later because I wanted to add a few quotes but the books are not next to me now at the computer.

Scenes from a train window. Almost autumn, colours just beginning though this week, the temps are warmer than it's been all of August:

This is actually a photo that was framed behind glass in one of the offices we were waiting in at the hospital last week. I have seen this building in person in downtown Montreal and it is impressive. Imagine living in that building! There is a slight glare of sun across the top right and across his hands, from the sun on the glass. This is a mural that was done a few years after Leonard Cohen died and he liked this photo because it was one his daughter had taken of him years ago.



Ok, I am done now...

Happy new one!

>5 jessibud2: - Thanks, Jim! You are first!

>3 jessibud2: Very interesting acquisitions there, Shelley. I hope you can get some reading mojo back soon... when the mind is stressed, it hesitates to concentrate.

>5 jessibud2: Great images, Shelley. This is thread 6, yes??

I hope you will find some mind space for losing yourself in reading a blissful story.

I am so glad to see your photos. Properly sized, I think. You've got a good grasp of the coding, I'd say. Good for you.

>5 jessibud2: How on earth does the artist control all the shading and color blending working on a 20-or-so-story "canvas"?