I am an avid reader and love, more than anything, to recommend books to others and engage in literary discussions. I'm not picky about what I read-- I love mysteries, classic fiction, historical fiction, non-fiction, and especially stories that are entertaining but relate to my love of science and medicine.
This blog will mostly feature book reviews- I don't know how great I am at critiquing though, because it is rare that I don't enjoy something. Each piece of writing seems to have something to redeem it, something it can teach us.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
- Jorge Luis Borges, "Poema de los Dones"
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Literary Birthday - 9 May
Happy Birthday, J.M. Barrie, born 9 May 1860, died 19 June 1937
Quotes
- When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
- To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
- The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which.
- Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
- Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
- You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.
- Every time a child says I don’t believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
- The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Barrie was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. Barrie was made a baronet by George V in 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in 1922. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital.
by Amanda Patterson from Writers Write
Looking forward to it! Thanks for sending it on.
Nose in a Book: Tips To Help You Read More in 2013
New year, new you, right? If one of your goals for 2013 is to read more, here are some tips to make your resolution reality.
Take Part in the 50 Book Challenge Or 25 book challenge or even 200 book challenge. You can pick the number. 50 books in a year is approximately a book a week and is…
I finally finished this painting today.
thats fucking beautiful, stahp
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Found at: Arga Bibliotekstanten
from here?: http://www.ww1propaganda.com/sites/default/files/3g03179u-1580.jpg?1311563382
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From William Styron…
Today I went to this bookstore in Venice, and it felt like paradise! It’s called “Acqua Alta”, that means high water in italian, because it’s built on the canal, so there’s high water like, 4 days a week!
There’s this huge gondola in the middle of it and it’s full of books (also a bowl of water for his 4 cats.. You can see the black one drinking from it), a little garden that the owner filled with books all piled up on the wall to form a stair (that you can climb, to watch the canal) and lots and lots of books!
So if you happen to be in Venice, I highly recommend it, it’s wonderful!
I can’t believe I missed this when I was there!
This. Is. Amazing.
The Birth of a Book
These Are a Few of My Favorite Books → The Adventures of Shelock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
