{"id":534,"date":"2014-11-13T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musingsandmosaics.wordpress.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T22:48:11","slug":"book-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Book Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">The other day I returned a book borrowed from a friend. The embarrassing thing was I had never finished it and the book mark was in the middle of the book. I felt bad because it was a book written by her husband&#8217;s cousin and I knew the author. There wasn&#8217;t anything wrong with the book&nbsp;but I had borrowed it during my &#8220;never finishing a book&#8221; phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">For several years I did not finish most of the books I started. I don&#8217;t really have a good explanation for this. I&#8217;d get a few chapters in, stop reading for a few days and then just lose interest. I finished fewer fiction books than non-fiction. In fact I gave up on fiction altogether for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">I&#8217;ve finally got over&nbsp;it and am now finishing books again. This past summer\/fall I read Ken Follett&#8217;s Century Trilogy. Three big books, each bigger than the last, which was almost 1100 pages. (BTW the first one was the best of the three.) I&#8217;m happy that once again I&#8217;m reading to the end of books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Now here it is your moment of mosaic. Something a little different today &#8211; an 11th century Byzantine mosaic from Nea Moni (New Monastery) on the island of Chios, Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/chios-nea-moni-church-mosaic-5.jpg\" alt=\"Chios - Nea Moni Church Mosaic 5\" class=\"wp-image-538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/chios-nea-moni-church-mosaic-5.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/chios-nea-moni-church-mosaic-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/chios-nea-moni-church-mosaic-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/chios-nea-moni-church-mosaic-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/chios-nea-moni-church-mosaic-5-1240x930.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/chios-nea-moni-church-mosaic-5-508x381.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I returned a book borrowed from a friend. 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