Booklog: Nonfiction Dump

And herewith are the non-fiction books I took up after Ash Wednesday.

( War and earthquake and persecution, oh my! )

Every year I say I'm going to do more spiritual reading, and every year I have an awful time actually finding something I want to read. At least the current tome is a biography of St. Hildegard of Bingen ... maybe after that I can pick up Mechthild of Magdeburg or Birgitta of Sweden or somebody ...

Personal Note: Heirlooms

My family isn't big into heirlooms, so I don't own many things that I haven't bought myself or been given as presents in the here-and-now, or that would be worth preserving for the next generation as Antiques Roadshow-bait. There's the 400-day clock my father bought fifty years ago in Germany that I hauled to the horologist and got working again (though it still loses about five minutes a day), and the page from a fifteenth-century Italian gradual that I purchased at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair when I still thought I was going to be a professional medievalist, and the J.K. Rowling U.K. first editions that will be financing my retirement someday. :-) But when I consider what I want to give my niece and nephew so they can have a sense of family history beyond the generations with which they're acquainted, I think of my grandfather's paintings.

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