Embracing change

 To grow is to change, to change is to require different needs and different habitat.

Without change, there would be no novelty; no surprise, and without those fraternal twins, life could feel flat as a postage stamp.

 

Pictures by Larra. Words by Diane Ackerman in her book “Cultivating Delight – a Natural History of My Garden” that I am currently reading. It’s a good book! More review if you would like to know about this book.

“The kind of book only a poet could write, and only a gardener could appreciate.”

(Cleveland Plain Dealer)

June 03, 2009: What are you reading?

Books are a delightful society. If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you.
(William E. Gladstone, 1809-1898)I am talking about book again. Just finished reading ‘A Year in Provence’ by Peter Mayle and currently reading ‘Wildwood – A Journey Through Trees’ by Roger Deakin. Oh, I almost forgot this is one of the books that I was talking about in one of my recent blog. I finally found this book two weeks ago at Borders. It is the only copy left and the only Roger Deakin’s title available at Borders.I seem to be enjoying reading books about travel or travelogue. ?Maybe because it ‘takes’ me to different part of the world, meet different people, reading about different culture ….. There are few titles that I have read so far that I enjoyed it very much such as, ‘The Places in Between’ by Rory Stewart, ‘Three Cups of Tea’ (ah, I forgot the author’s name?- I lend this book to one of my colleagues and it has been few months now , “C’est la Folie’ by Michael Wright. I also have few more titles …. all about France …. that Herb gave me and yet to be read.

Yesterday I went shopping at Amazon.uk …. or rather window shopping . I was so excited that I found several titles and selected 7 titles (for the time being):

 

 

Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah – Tim Mackintosh-Smith £6.99 You Save:£2.00 (22%)

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium – William Dalrymple £6.99 You Save:£3.00 (30%)

The Lost Heart of Asia – Colin Thubron £6.99 You Save:£2.00 (22%)

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan – Jason Elliot £6.99 You Save:
£2.00 (22%)

Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran – Jason Elliot £6.99 You Save:
£2.00 (22%)

A Shadow Falls: In the Heart of Java – Andrew Beatty £9.09 You Save:
£3.90 (30%)

Almost French: A New Life in Paris – Sarah Turnbull; £5.59 You Save: £3.40 (37%)I placed it in my shopping basket and the total price was £ 49.58 and what made me extermely happy was that I got a message that I was entitled for Super Saver Free Delivery for my order – meaning that no postage charges! Great! I proceed making payment and before last step to place my order I did final check and I noticed that the it was addressed to HerbMaster! (Amazon must has automatic picked-up the first delivery address in my account!). Phew! Otherwise Herb will have to read the books on my behalf. LOL. So, I change the address to my address and guess what? The total price has now changed and I am no longer entitled for Free Delivery and the postage charges was £29!!!!!

 

Whoa! It seems that the Free Delivery thing only meant for UK! Sigh.So, you people in the UK and US are lucky to live in a country where most books are published.

I am back quiet.

Larra