Forsake Reading Nevermore!

If you are out and about on this Halloween day, pop into The Book Market in Crest Hill (11 a.m. to 5 p.m.)  and ask to see the fun "nevermore" Halloween prop with the blinking eyes.

Janet Staley brought it out to show Rebekah and me when we hung out there last week. And it's sure to delight any bookworm, not just "Poe" fans.

You can also check out our BryonySeries Halloween display before that goes away and pick up some last minute treats for people who might enjoy them.

Haunted house, anyone?

And if not a haunted house...

...maybe you'll discover some new authors and titles tucked away, here and there, just lurking...

...where you least expect them.

Happy Halloween!

"A Dream Within a Dream" Edgar Allan Poe

"A Dream Within A Dream" (1849)

By Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow-

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand-

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep- while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem