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I collect books from library the way some people buy clothes. Compulsively. Obsessively. With a thrill of new ownership that all too often fades once the books are in my possession. Every time I bike by the library, I feel the inexorable pull. All those unread books. All those beautiful words. All those stories, waiting for me! When she was little, my sister would heap her plate with food at the dinner table, insistent of her hunger. Once the plate was in front of her, though, she would hardly touch it. “My eyes were bigger than my stomach,” she would explain, apologetically. At the library, my eyes are bigger than my stomach. Or maybe my imagination is bigger than the hours of the day? I collect armfuls of books, overloading my bike panniers and strapping extras to the back rack. When I’m inside the stacks, I never think of the books by my bed, half-read, or of the unread books on my bookshelf. The pull of possibility inside those uncracked spines is too strong. I never read all the books I check out, just as I never read all the books I buy. I sometimes wish, whimsically, that I could shut myself up in my house for a week and read a stack from top to bottom and bookend to bookend, but of course, life intrudes. And besides, the library is calling. There are so many books yet to explore.  Wednesday 2/7 WINTER GARDEN ($8) A celebration of all the green herbs in the winter garden. MOUNTAIN RYE ($7) VOLLKORNBROT ($8) Wednesday 2/14 CHOCOLATE ($10) A bittersweet black bread, with dark cocoa, dark chocolate chunks, and candied orange peel. MOUNTAIN RYE ($7) VOLLKORNBROT ($8) Wednesday 2/21 SPROUTED EINKORN ($8) This ancient wheat is grassy and sweet. MOUNTAIN RYE ($7) VOLLKORNBROT ($8) Sophie
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