![]() Imagine my surprise when I when I opened my mailbox and found a package! When I got home from the post office I eagerly but carefully opened it. Inside was a book accompanied by a letter. This is not just any book. This is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Should you wonder at its significance, Anna and I have been corresponding, among other things, about the books we read. I admitted to her that I was unfamiliar with the Bronte sisters. Such unfamiliarities are easily cured but I never expected to be cured in this way. This is a small, leather bound edition which became an immediate treasure. As you can see from the pictures below, everything from the handwriting on the envelope to the gilded binding of the book is lovely. The embossed edge of the card above is echoed by the decorative though edge of the stationery which gives the feeling of a matching set. I thought this was very nice. Now for the real treat: the book itself. Enjoy the pictures and imagine how the paper feels and smells. A picture says a thousand words on its own but ten thousand to an engaged imagination. I read the first chapter yesterday evening and will read more today. When I am finished I will have a shared experience with my friend Anna. Shared experience is one thing books, like letters, give us and that is a beautiful thing. Thank you, Anna!
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Melissa Howard
9/3/2012 12:25:31 pm
What a fun gift...I've read Jane Eyre a couple of times...it is a fascinating book. In fact in college, I wrote a paper on the Bronte siblings who are nearly as strange and as fascinating as their books.
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9/3/2012 12:55:54 pm
So far it's very enjoyable and I've only read two chapters. I started a list of unknown or little used words. Maybe I'll do a few vocabulary posts. One example is "toilet-table."
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Jan
9/5/2012 03:08:04 am
Finding that in your mailbox is a great mail day. I love that leather binding - so much classier than paperbacks. (And is that a Pelikan, too? =D)
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9/5/2012 03:11:53 am
You're right about class, Jan; this book just oozes with it. Yes, it's a Pelikan and the most reliable pen I have. At the moment it's inked with Private Reserve Arabian Rose...now I want to go play with it :o)
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AnnaM
9/7/2012 06:59:00 pm
I'm so pleased the book arrived okay and that you like it. I finished the book about the Crimea; I read a few pages, just to get an idea of what it was about and couldn't stop reading!
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9/8/2012 03:55:29 am
I like it very much! Isn't it a treat to find a good book? I plan to make to day a reading day. I'm reading The Fellowship of the Ring and of course, I'm getting to know Jane. I shouldn't say more because I have a letter to you in progress and I want you to have something new to read when it arrives.
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Anna
9/17/2012 01:50:01 am
I found that elusive item! Look for a parcel this week. 9/17/2012 05:35:16 am
No way! You're too much! I'll be checking my box with eagerness :D
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