Tuesday 28 June 2011



THE HISTORY OF LOVE
Ysgubor Llwyn-y-Ffynnon
5 May 2011 – 7.45 am


BOOKS FIND US
When is the time and we are ready, they find their way to us.

THE BOOK
In our penultimate day of holidays in this beautiful remote cottage in north Wales, it found me.
I was browsing one of the many bookshelves replete with books and the book pop out to me. I pick it up. I browsed inside and the words ‘Barth mitzvah’ caught my eyes. I felt the urgency to read it.

READ
I began to read while keeping an eye on Paquito [our French bulldog]
I breathe the fresh air of a new day and I read
I welcome the day with gracious and grateful heart...I read
I let the dramatic landscape to embrace me...I read
I make a cup of tea for Marie... I read
Paquito and I join her in bed...I read
I make breakfast...I read
We eat... I read
I do the washing up...I read
I go to the toilet...I read
Poland, Jews, South America, Peru, llamas, Argentina, Chile, Oxford, manuscripts, New York...I read

PAUSE 4.15 pm
We drove to MACHYNLLETH with the radio on; BBC 4 ...at the end of the show ‘Bookclub’ James Naughtie announced that next book for June's Bookclub will be 'The History of Love' by Nicole Krauss...
WHAT AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE!
Back to the cottage we eat fish and ships...I read
Marie dispensed me from all my domestic duties...I read
Paquito join me in the sofa...we read
We all sit in the sofa to watch ‘Chocolate’...I read.
Goodnight said Marie...I read

NEXT DAY
6 May 2011 – 6.30 am
I got up early...I read
I did all the same as yesterday...I read
We finish breakfast...I read...the last words...
I FINISH!
Leo, Alma, Charlotte, Zvi, Bruno, Bird, all stayed with me…
What a great book.

BOOKS FIND US
When is the time and we are ready, they find their way to us.

Gracias.