Welcome to The Open Book Café: a weekly gathering of book lovers, from around the world. Share your thoughts on moving passages, and characters in play. What better way than to spend a small sweet slice of a somber Sunday? Are you new to The Open Book Café? Here's a link to the Introduction. This is now a bi-monthly post, that may eventually be turned into into a podcast, along with previous posts. Summer's End - The Open Book Café Let's walk over to the stacks of classic lit

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'Know Thyself.' Art inspired by Socrates, by MultiMediaSusan. On Redbubble. Welcome to The Open Book Café: Book lovers around the world. Share your thoughts on moving passages, and characters in play. What better way than to spend a small sweet slice of a somber Sunday? Introduction To The Open Book Café https://www.multimediasusan.com/post/the-open-book-caf%C3%A9-introduction Good afternoon, and welcome to The Open Book Café: Finding Yourself. Although at times we may feel l

Fiddleheads Unfurl by MultiMediaSusan. Free digital wallpaper & on FineArtAmerica. 'One of the signs that spring has finally arrived is the melting of snow and the emerging green growth that begins to poke through the forest floor. The ostrich fern Matteuccia struthiopteris is one of spring’s early risers. Named after the Ancient Greek struthio meaning ostrich and pterion meaning wing, the common and scientific names refer to the large, feather-like shape of the fern. The cur

'A tree is a seed that never gave up on its dream to flourish.' ―Matshona Dhliwayo Welcome to The Open Book Café: Book lovers around the world. Share your thoughts on moving passages, and characters in play. What better way than to spend a small sweet slice of a somber Sunday? Brought to you by MultiMediaSusan.com Introduction To The Open Book Café https://www.multimediasusan.com/post/the-open-book-caf%C3%A9-introduction Good afternoon, and welcome to The Open Book Café: Gard

An Ode to Spring & Summer What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. - Kobayashi Issa Welcome to The Open Book Café: Book lovers around the world. Share your thoughts on moving passages, and characters in play. What better way than to spend a small sweet slice of a somber Sunday? Brought to you by MultiMediaSusan.com Introduction To The Open Book Café https://www.multimediasusan.com/post/the-open-book-caf%C3%A9-introduction Good morning, and welcome to the Spr

Fall is slowly sweeping over, with its bronze, gold and fiery leaves, as we crunch through the forest, by its blue silver streams... Oh come now, Steady thy laden head across a brook; Time to find a cozy nook, and lose yourself in a wonderful book. Quiz: Which line above belongs to another writer? The answer will be posted next week. But savvy readers will find the clue deep within this post. Good afternoon, and welcome to The Open Book Café: a weekly gathering of book lovers

Welcome to The Open Book Café. In light of upcoming Banned Books Week, (September 22-28, 2019), I present a plethora of quotes about censors

Welcome to Chapter 2 of The Open Book Café. The Introduction can be found here. This blog post includes sunny indoor reading spaces,... Setting The Environment How does one set the right atmosphere to lose oneself in a good book? I am currently in the process of finding a new apartment. And like many, I choose a new living space by its natural lighting and its potential to contain a really good artist studio/office space/reading room. Sight and Touch: For me, the perfect indo

Welcome to Chapter 1 of The Open Book Café. The Introduction can be found here. This blog post contains just a few of my favourite sunny reading spaces... I read in the shade, and smile as happy dogs cool off by the splash rocks in the park. I have read in a forest while camping, under a canopy of trees. But I admit, I failed at keeping the bugs away from me. Today, I will read by an Ontario lakeshore, where this year I've seen receded shorelines like ne'er before. The beach

Welcome to The Open Book Café: a weekly gathering of book lovers, from around the world. Share your thoughts on moving passages, and characters in play. What better way than to spend a small sweet slice of a somber Sunday? Group link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/450079055841660 Each passage and every quote, are carefully curated and stand on their own - no matter who wrote them, or to whom they were wrote. It is my sincere hope that you enjoy your visit to The Open Book