Janice Bakke

For Rose City Reader's Book Beginnings on Fridays "where participants share the opening sentence (or two) from the book they are reading."

In the spirit of I only have twenty-five years left to read all the books, here is a partial list of the books I currently own (or have checked out from the library) that I would like to (re)read.

In one week it will have been twenty-five years since I published my first blog post.

The first kettle of the season of early apples (Yellow Transparent) is cooking down on the stove!

For Rose City Reader's Book Beginnings on Fridays "where participants share the opening sentence (or two) from the book they are reading."

From the essay "Writing" in The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books by Robertson Davies (1996). ...I was born a writer.

For Rose City Reader's Book Beginnings on Fridays "where participants share the opening sentence (or two) from the book they are reading."

After an era of what at one time would have been inconceivable—reading very few books each year—this year I joined a book club at church, the first book club I've ever joined.

For Rose City Reader's Book Beginnings on Fridays "where participants share the opening sentence (or two) from the book they are reading."

For Rose City Reader's Book Beginnings on Fridays "where participants share the opening sentence (or two) from the book they are reading."