Bibliophage manu

A hands-on mommy who loves to read and to indulge in the world of books.

[bibliophagemanu]

Hello, December 🎄 finally you came up with all your frosty ❄️ morning and shivering nights, giving us a chance again to swaddle ourselves under the cosy blankets, while hot brew☕ and log fire 🔥 warm us up.

With magical fairy lights 🔆 hanging in the doorways you have brought up the festive vibes to us again, echoing in our ears the promise of a better 🌟 year.

We hope you bring us a new year 🎆 with the World where we will have no fear of moving out of our houses anymore, where we can touch and hug each other again.

We hope you close this year (which has passed in fear and the shade) with a gleam ✨ of faith. And bring us back the time where we all can wine 🍾 🍷and dine 🍽️ together again.

The world where we can read 👓 lying down on the grass or on the comfy couch placed outside our favourite cafe, without the fear of an uninvited foreign guest replicating inside us.

So a toast 🥂 to you December 🎄 may you give better closure to this year and chance to us to make the upcoming year the best one 🌟

[friends-daily]

christmas 2020

[jaynes-cozy-corner]

[whilereadingandwalking]

November Highlights

This month, most of my highlights were library books. I read for comfort during the election, I read by the lake as the water hit the rocks, I read at home curled up alongside my cat and alongside my lighted tree. It was a long month yet it went by incredibly quickly. Onwards into December.

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez

Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina A. Kover

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Some Possible Solutions by Helen Phillips

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

[whilereadingandwalking]

101 Stories of the Great Ballets: The Scene-by-Scene Stories of the Most Popular Ballets, Old and New by George Balanchine and Francis Mason was one of my favorite books when I was young. I first purchased this well-worn paperback in the gift shop of Lincoln Center after my father took me to see Midsummer Night’s Dream as a ballet. I read it through at least a dozen times, diving into scene-by-scene retellings of the most popular classic and contemporary ballets. It’s equal parts story and technical, describing what the moves are onstage, and something about it just enchanted me as a young kid who loved ballet.

[thekindworthreading]

It's spooky month so I bought a new plant with a cute pot!🎃

[hazy-october]

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[bibliophagemanu]

Eat pray love is an inspiring journey memoir, of author @elizabeth_gilbert_writer , who after going via a gloomy divorce (Marriage, where infidelity was not an issue instead writer's soul, realized that she is not happy anymore),  move on a global excursion to discover herself.

The writer begins her expedition with Italy, the land of pasta, spaghetti and Tuscany wine 🍾 🍇 - Where meals hold the same reputation as a religion.

From enrolling herself in an Italian language class to practicing the art of "II bel far niente" (masters of doing nothing) to trying intestine of a newborn lamb, she explores the many sides of her personality.

At the end of her sojourn in the land of beautiful language and beautiful food, she finally collected pieces of her lost soul along with some weight and took her next trip to incredible India. India the land of diverse culture, the land of brilliant sages, the land of yoga and meditation.

It is in India, where she explored the spiritual side of her individuality. Living in an ashram, the writer found her true self between yoga and meditation. Where she not only prays but became a prayer 🙏.

Rejuvenated after long-suffering in her cocoon the butterfly 🦋 finally reaches surfer's 🏄 paradise Bali to find the balance of life.

Where cycling through paddy fields and partying near the beaches, 🌺 she encountered with the man who turns out to be her love and solace. And the eccentricity in her finally found relief.

The book is not only a marvellous travel account of the writer but also serves as a comfort read for people going through a haywire situation in life.

[lisaminnci]

Oh, Yeah, the ol’ North Wind starts to howl Puffs up, furrows his brow Now, now, you better take cover Lock up those doors and close the shutters

OVER THE GARDEN WALL (2014) ❄

[lizziethereader]

Shelf-Confidence BPC | December 2020 | 2. Folklore

[bibliophagemanu]

"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

Done reading 📖 with one of the most popular watercoloured illustrated classic "The Little Prince" written by a French aristocrat, author, and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It is a story of a grownup pilot (who use to draw a boa constrictor from inside and out when he was six) who crashes in a deserted island and ends up meeting the little prince 🤴 (a boy who never stop asking a question and lives on a planet with one rose🌹 and three volcanoes 🌋 ).

The book 📚 reflects how the child's imagination doesn't have any constraint. How a simple stone seems like a magic ✨ bean to them, from which they can grow a giant beanstalk. And how with passing time these innocent bundles of curiosity join the clan of serious grown-ups. Grown-ups are the one who has forgotten the child living inside them, who have lost all their incredible vision and have indulged themselves in the neverending loop of logic.

It is a quick and poetic read for all ages with a beautiful message. And a quick reminder that "All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it."

[bibliophagemanu]

Night of the lingering ❄️ season,

When the chills run down the spine

I took shelter in the warmth of pages 📓

While sipping down an old red wine🍷

Let the red mead 🍷 flow down my throat,

While the wisdom of words is drenching my soul and frosty weather numbing my toes.

For me, it is a celestial 💫 night where my despair is out of sight..

[bibliophagemanu]

When 🐦 birds start chirping on breaking of the morning, 🌞

And a cold wind blows near the window where the wind chime is hanging,

I pour myself some tea and pick on the chapter 📖 on which last night I fall asleep.

What are the morning rituals you love to follow 📚phages?

I could consider nothing than tasting some coffee and perusing a good read while the brew ☕ is as yet hot. The feeling of sipping hot brew while my eyes are spellbound in the lines of books 📚 releases a good portion of endorphins in me. For me, it is like an early morning achievement; the arrival of my happy hormones set me up for the rest of the mundane activities of the day.

On that note have a happy morning 🌅 full of endorphins 📚 phages...

[bibliophagemanu]

Creativity lives inside all of us, dancing in our heart, breathing in us from generations and banging on the doors of our souls asking us to break the ice and let her flow into this world.

The book "Big Magic" resonates with the ones who want to break free from the clutches of society, who want to live and dance without music 🎶 while the world stares them with mocking eyes.

It inspires people with artistic quotient 🎨 ✏️ to come out and display their work without fretting about the consequences and enjoy the whole process of bringing their creativity to life.

After reading, "Eat Pray Love," I decided to go for Elizabeth's Big Magic and there she did it again. She makes me weep again with joy; her storytelling nudged me to my core. As if the universe has conspired her to write it down for me so that I can stay my creative life and may pull my poems from their tailback to my notebook. 📝

[bibliophagemanu]

Wisdom doesn’t come with knowledge; they are not twin sisters; ones own contemplation is needed to attain enduring percipience.

Zen lifestyle is a style of living that promises tranquillity to both body and brain and promotes naturalness and mindfulness in life.

Writer Shunmyo Masuno, through his book (Zen The Art of Simple Living), teaches 100 practices of living a simple life with each execution, bringing you closer to living a life in a zen style.

From waking up fifteen minutes early each day to cherish a cup of coffee in silence to understanding the subtle line difference between frugal and simple, the lessons of the book teach you how to live in the present with no worries of tomorrow and regrets of the past.

It reminds you to look around at the beauty beholden by this world and inhale it all before you get lost again in the commotions of your daily life.

Lines from the book 📖 that stayed with me -

“Consider trying to write or draw with care – not with the intention of showing it to others, but rather by mindfully facing your inner self. Your true self will show through, in a single line or letter.”

[bibliophagemanu]

When the Sun shine after the rain and

a splendid rainbow jumps through the windowpane;

she leaned near the reflecting glass holding her dream in her hands, for

her the world lies in the between the pages a place where her soul can stay for ages....

[bibliophagemanu]

Chilly winter❄️ morning and an alone weekend,

I gather up my pages and my pen ✒️,

And scribble on the pages to it's every end.

With each writing word,

I transform my dissatisfaction into content, Writing down my romanticism and my fondness,

I change my defeat into triumph.

I am a solitary being seeking aloneness,

Falling daily in love with the magnificence of nature 🍃,

An observing soul watching the world in silence,

I am a Bookman 📖...