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Emerson’s Three Practical Book Rules 29 Jul 2009 | 03:11 am
The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are — (1) Never read any book that is not a year old. (2) Never read any but famed books. (3) Never read any but what you like; or, in Shakespea...
Elements of Style 12 Apr 2009 | 09:08 pm
I am rather busy as of late, and so blog updates are sparse. Thus I recommend you other reading material, such as this interesting and important article by Geoffrey Pullum on the shortcomings of Strun...
Orlando’s Bookshop 16 Mar 2009 | 06:52 am
Orlando by Virginia Woolf is a fictional biography of a young Elizabethan nobleman who one day wakes up a woman and in that guise lives through another four centuries. At one point, Orlando finds hers...
Watcha Readin’ For? 14 Mar 2009 | 03:03 am
The immortal Bill Hicks on reading (0:40):
Links of the Day 12 Mar 2009 | 08:39 pm
Reading comics: Acephalous discusses Watchmen and Zack Snyder’s film adaptation, part I and part II. Reading to dogs: So Many Books tells us about the awesomeness of therapy dogs. Reading silently:...
Delights of Reading 12 Mar 2009 | 09:45 am
Otto Bettmann’s The Delights of Reading quotes Boswell’s Life of Johnson about the Doctor”s remarkable gift for reading: He read, as he did most things, violently; he had a peculiar facility for seiz...
It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers 5 Mar 2009 | 10:50 am
Today, a poem! This is part of a series on “poetry of reading”, a feature I intend to use as a regular update here on this blog. Your poetry suggestions are, of course, most welcome! It is Dangerous ...
Flaubert and his Parrot On Reading 4 Mar 2009 | 09:48 am
Traditionally, reader response theory focuses on abstract or generic readers and tends to brush over some of the more human elements of reading. This includes the reader’s relationship to the author, ...
Danse Joyeuse, Danse Macabre 17 Feb 2009 | 09:24 pm
… le bonheur et l’innocence de la lecture, qui est peut-être en effet une danse avec un partenaire invisible dans un espace séparé, une danse joyeuse, éperdue, avec le «tombeau». Légèreté à qui il ne ...
William Hazlitt, On Reading Old Books 10 Feb 2009 | 01:02 pm
“I have more confidence in the dead than the living”, writes William Hazlitt (1778-1830), the eminent English essayist of the Romantic Era, in his essay “On Reading Old Books”. This may come as a bit ...
