Scotiana

 
Hi everybody,
Today is September 21st, the first day of the autumn season though here, in the south of France, it looks like a summer day, warm and sunny! I wonder what is the weather like in Scotland now…
Is it as beautiful as it was, 179 years ago, in that quiet and beautiful corner of the [...]

Hi Mairiuna!
First, let me tell you that I absolutely fell in love with Arnold Lobel’s illustration “Books to the Ceiling” that we can see inside your post: “First Steps in Alexander McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street… Very original rendering of a house full of books!
As we are both great book lovers, no wonder this charming [...]

 
 
 
Books to the ceiling, books to the sky.
My piles of books are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
(Arnold Lobel – Whiskers & Rhyme)
 

Hi everybody!
The little corner of my library devoted to Alexander McCall Smith’s books is beginning to become crowded. As I’ve mentioned in my last post, [...]

 
 
 
Hi everybody!
With autumn already touching our gardens and woods with its warm colours, it may seem a little late to write a page about “summer reading” but isn’t it a good idea to make  summer last a little longer. Indeed, the Indian Summer is still to come, isn’t it Janice?
But before embarking on our ”summer [...]

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Hi Mairiuna!
While checking my agenda this morning, I noticed a scribble indicating that today was Sir Walter Scott’s birthday!
I said to myself that we could not let this day go by without honouring our favorite scottish writer .  To celebrate his priceless legacy which had such a great impact on historical fiction and  upon so [...]