Penguin Colony

Ha! The title! I was expecting something like this: www.ipernity.com/doc/erhard.bernstein/44492354

I couldn’t keep your penguins on my shelves, Erhard.

Great title, Steve, and some well thumbed books. Always good to see.

I can’t resist picking up a Penguin, Amelia.

I adore !! I did not know this book series which we don't have in France, but I think I would have loved this collection as far as I can see from the titles I already read !!!!!!!

Éditions Gallimard more famous, perhaps.

A shelf full of books … the gate of Heaven! :)

Or the marriage of heaven and hell.

A classy collection of classics.
Just the other day, my husband asked, "what is the penguin looking at?"
One could think of many answers.

That’s a very good question, and I can’t think of any answers.

Just add nostalgia!

Yes, and the way they surface at jumble sales and charity shops, yellowed and stained but still well printed and held together, containing treasures.

Love the title. I see many old favourites in there.

Now I put them together it reminds me that there are some I must get round to reading.

the sea of forgetfulness is near

All we need is the ship of Discovery, we can set off to find more penguins.

...surely...we will find a new New World...

A most interesting gathering of books.

Some of them surprised me, even though it was me who gathered them all together.

very wel done

They just lined up.

I shall bequeath my own colony to you. Penguins ought to stick together.:-)

They only get sticky when you drop them in the bath.

Ooh, I like this. I see a few I've read, but I really want to read all of them. Could you send me some? I love the quote, Steve. In return, I'll send you my history of the Gulag. Really, I have one.

I read the Gulag Archipelago recently thinking I’d never get through it but pulled on by Solzhenitsyn’s sarcastic voice. I don’t think I could bear another visit just yet. I probably couldn’t send you any because I am too retentive, autistic, ungenerous etc. My favourite read at the moment is The House of Government ( no, it’s not like The Story of O). Mind you, I’ve only read a couple of chapters and I’m finding the going a bit slow.

OK, then how about my history of Russian Jewish refugees in Shanghai and Tehran? Eh? Right now I'm working hard to get interested in "Less," Pulitzer Prize 2018. Fiction. I keep thinking of the one I read before it. Sighhhh...

Anyway, I hate loaning my books, people drop them in toilets and muddy gutters. My own mother beats them until the covers and title pages are gone - GONE! My best friend returned one after soaking it in coffee overnight, so I never loaned her another.

very witty

Most of my Penguins seem to have black spines. I wonder if that could indicate an edition sold in America?

Penguin Classics are handsome black in the UK. Aeschylus to Zola.