By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
Tag: reading
Best reads of 2018 (so far)
June is over. Here are my favourite books of the first half of 2018.
Were It Not For Coffee…
“Were it not for coffee one could not write, which is to say one could not live.” —Honoré de Balzac “Coffee gives you time to think. It’s a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but… Continue reading Were It Not For Coffee…
Where the Wild Books Are
“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.” —Virginia Woolf Aging and decay are characteristics that generally have a negative connotation. The first is a consequence of the passing of time; the second one,… Continue reading Where the Wild Books Are
