Saturday Review of Books: July 24, 2010
“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music of out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.”~John Keats If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on [...]
Saturday Review of Books: July 17, 2010
“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.”~Thomas Carlyle If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week of a [...]
Saturday Review of Books: July 10, 2010
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”~Christopher Morley If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime during the previous [...]
Saturday Review of Books: July 3, 2010
“The way a book is read — which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book — can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it…. Anyone who can read can learn how to read deeply and thus live more fully.”~Norman Cousins If you’re not [...]
Saturday Review of Books: June 26, 2010
“Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”~Christopher Morley If you’re not [...]
Saturday Review of Books: June 19, 2010
“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”~Mark Danielewsk If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on [...]
Saturday Review of Books: June 12, 2010
“Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.”~Marguerite Yourcenar If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on [...]
Saturday Review of Books: June 5, 2010
“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”~Anne Frank If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it [...]
Saturday Review of Books: May 29, 2010
“An ordinary man can…surround himself with two thousand books…and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.”~Austin Birrell If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a [...]
Saturday Review of Books: May 22, 2010
“The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.”~Nathaniel Hawthorne Unfortunately I have yet to figure out how to turn my love of literature into “solid cash”, nor do I think my literary addiction does much gratify my [...]
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