Stephanie Copeland, president and CEO of The Mount, Edith Wharton’s historic home in Lenox, Massachusetts, has announced that there is a new blog chronicling the efforts to save the estate, which is facing financial difficulties. At helpsavethemount.blogspot.com, bibliophiles are invited to share their stories about visiting The Mount. Visit www.edithwharton.org for more information about fundraising efforts and to make a pledge.
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New #readingspot for a few weeks. Current page-turner: A Good Enough Mother by Bev Thomas. The novel centers on Ruth Hartland, a psychotherapist in a London trauma unit. Even as she helps her patients piece their lives back together after devastating events, privately she is struggling with the disappearance of her teenage son, who went missing a year and a half earlier. The story is dark and haunting, and the suspense is simmering so subtly and steadily that I’m almost ready to bite my nails as I finish the second half, waiting—as the cover copy promises—for the “timebomb at its core.” Especially excellent for plane rides. #changeofscenery #greatreads #books #travel #miamibeach
“The goal of this book is to triple the size of your To Be Read pile,” claims Jane Mount in Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany. I’m always thrilled for new reading suggestions, and there are plenty of them in this gorgeous and fun book, from Coming of Age novels to 1800s Brit Lit. There are place-themed pictorials, too—beloved bookstores, striking libraries, and literary sites like Thoreau’s one-room cabin at Walden Pond and the West Yorkshire parsonage where the Brontë sisters lived and wrote.
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But my favorite section is Writers’ Pets, with drawings of Mark Twain’s black cat Bambino, Flannery O’Connor’s peacock Limpy, John Steinbeck’s travel mate, the standard poodle Charley, and other classic writers’ companions. #animalsrock #booksrule #readingsuggestions #literarysites #bibliophileanillustratedmiscellany #janemount #chroniclebooks #bookstagram #booksofig
Favorite reads of 2018. So many blue covers are a coincidence, although it is my favorite color. All of these stories are tinged with sadness but also hope and humor. Two of them I loved so much that I didn’t want them to end. I set them aside for weeks before going back to finish the final chapters (The Death of Bees and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine). One made me cry and curse (A Man Called Ove). Two were book club selections (Another Brooklyn and An American Marriage). The latter inspired our most in-depth discussion, bringing up issues of marriage (of course), loyalty, race, and more. And Dickens’ storytelling stands the test of time. Originally published in serial form, Oliver Twist is a roller-coaster of a read. I fell hard for Oliver and the people that band together to keep him out of villainous hands. #somuchgreatstorytelling #books #bookish #bookstagram #bookrecs #read #reading #eleanoroliphantiscompletelyfine #thedeathofbees #anamericanmarriage #amancalledove #anotherbrooklyn #olivertwist
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October 25, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Karenne Saylor
I visited the Mount in May 2009 and recently wrote about the visit on my blog. I visited two days in a row, one of them during the Friday night “ghost” tour. In my blog entry, I didn’t mention the tour, although I did have an experience while I was standing outside of the old sewing room, near the elevator. I caught it on a digital recorder and others (including Molly) heard the sound. It was directly below her office.
I will be adding a literary blog entry about Edith Wharton very soon. I have to gather my thoughts first, in order to write a scholarly essay.
October 26, 2009 at 1:24 pm
noveldestinations
What an eerie experience! I really enjoyed the post on your blog about your visit to the Mount, especially all of the photos of the interior.