Greetings to all the community members! Despite of my love for books and reading, this is my first time posting here. I am a reading enthusiast and my favorite books are about mystery, romance and adventure.

I must be one of the luckiest people! All my life I have loved books, I love their feel, their smell, I can enter a library and be carried away by the excitement of what I may find. A bookshop is a magical

This has been an exciting week for me. My son-in-law attended an auction and came back with masses of books. I am a bookseller so of course I was very interested in what books he had bought. Very often

The power of books to hold you enthralled is amazing. After spending all day yesterday in front of my computer bidding on an online auction, I felt today would be a perfect day to relax and spend a bit

The power of books to hold you enthralled is amazing. Image After spending all day yesterday in front of my computer bidding on an online auction, I felt today would be a perfect day to relax and spend

Image - Pixabay Monday, a cold wind is blowing outside, snow on the Cape Mountains, with the weather threatening to get colder during the week. I must admit that getting up on winter mornings is not one

This is the fourth book blog, sometimes I wonder how many people actually read this or if it has interest outside the borders of South Africa. For me this blog is a kind of therapy, a chance to dwell a

A new batch of books, the thrill of sorting through them is upon me again. Here are five which I have chosen at random out of a batch of about forty. I am going to have to make space on my shelves to

At last after waiting a week I am writing my first Steemit! I live in South Africa and at the moment we are in winter here, check the jacket. at least we have sunshine in winter here. (we have our rain