I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. – Vera Brittain, English writer, feminist, and pacifist Read more
A little something to remember summer days… Read more
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. – Mark Twain, American author and humorist Read more
Why do I never run into this guy at my local library? Read more
And yet a little more non-fiction for the shelves – The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley: The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch—the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy, Matt… Read more
Now, I’ve got some new stuff to share that I hope to be reviewing soon. First up is Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century by Alistair Thorne: Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past… Read more
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. – Lawrence Clark Powell, librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than 100 books Read more
A newspaper, not a book, but why should we be picky: Read more
Well, I’m back. I’d like to say it was nice to have a break, but mostly I’ve been slammed with work. Still, I’ve got some new books to tell you about and a few to get added to the review list. This week, I want to feature 2 books that I picked up for my personal library. First is one… Read more
The next new book this week is an interesting one: The Repurposed Library: 33 Craft Projects That Give Old Books New Life. I love the book sculptures and altered books you find online, and I always have a few books sitting around that I didn’t love and might make great art projects. I thought this might be fun to tackle. We… Read more