“But where will the books go?”
This is one of the first quandaries that comes to my mind whenever I go apartment hunting.
As soon as I saw pictures of the loft in what is now my new place, I knew where they would go.
I bid farewell to the farmhouse a few months ago. God gave me some very happy years there, but He was calling me onwards, and having a new cozy library loft to decorate has been just a dream. 😊 As mentioned in the video tour, I’m still getting things settled and contemplating the addition of a new bookshelf. I’m leaning towards the third corner case.
Also mentioned in the video, I’m finally getting my book club plans for the rest of the year organized! Many of you may already be on the book club email list - if you’re not and would like to be added, just drop a note to emma@bookishprincess.com. I email the video call links out each month. Our upcoming schedule for the remainder of 2025 is below! All meetings will be at 7 p.m. eastern time. If I need to adjust any of the dates as they get closer, I’ll send an email or post an fyi in my discord group.
Bookish Kingdom Book Club Schedule
Thursday, June 26, 2025: Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson
Thursday, July 31, 2025: The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Thursday, August 28, 2025: The Beloved Vagabond by William J. Locke
Thursday, September 25, 2025: The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
Thursday, October 30, 2025: The Clever Woman in the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Thursday, November 20, 2025: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Tuesday, January 5, 2026: I Saw Three Ships by Elizabeth Goudge
I gave some recent reading updates in the video, but you know I love a good quotation or two. I’ll let the books speak for themselves…
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
“I like your gift,” said Mrs. Pentstemmon. “It brings life to things, such as that stick in your hand, which you have evidently talked to, to the extent that it has become what the layman would call a magic wand. I think you would not find it too hard to break that contract.”
Island Magic by Elizabeth Goudge
Colin shut his eyes very reverently and had three wishes, one that he might lick de Putron minor next time he fought him, two that he might one day be able to give his mother a pearl necklace, and three, that he might become a sailor. This last was more in the nature of a prayer than a wish, the most fervent he ever prayed. It floated out from Colin’s soul and went with the stream down the lane, across the beach and into the sea, and there it was hidden away in a seashell for safety until the time came for it to be taken out and granted.
The Poet and the Lunatics by G.K. Chesterton
“Did they not in fact sing more songs, and dance more dances, and drink wine with more real merriment? That was because they believed in evil. In evil spells, perhaps in evil luck, in evil under all sorts of stupid and ignorant symbols; but still in something to be fought. They at least read things in black and white, and saw life as the battlefield it is. But you are unhappy because you disbelieve in evil, and think it philosophical to see everything in the same light of grey.”
Queen Lucia by E.F Benson
There was a slip of moon in the sky which he most punctiliously saluted, wondering (though he did not seriously believe in its superstition) how Lucia could be so foolhardy as to cut the new moon.
What have you all been reading lately? Leave me a comment down below to tell me how your 2025 bookish year has been going!
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