Archive: Bookland category
From Library Garden, Rocking Out on Pandora:
What I like best about Pandora (besides the fact that it always seems to play music that I like based upon one suggestion) is their objective to "capture the essence of music at the fundamental level". They really seem to be doing it. ...
You may have noticed that I've added the LibraryThing random books blog widget to the sidebar. Mmm. :) And on Monday, Tim added language support, so you can say, "This book was originally in Latin, but my copy of it is an English translation." Very, very ...
Came across this passage last night while reading Jane Eyre (p. 203, four or five pages from the end of chapter 20), and thought it quite beautiful:
He [Mr. Rochester] moved with slow step and abstracted air towards a door in the wall bordering the orchard. I, supposing he had ...
Discovered Wikibooks today. Very cool -- it's free, open-content textbooks on a variety of subjects. (I'm reading up on patch theory for my work on Beyond.)
It's quote time. :) I finished The Problem of Pain last night, and there's a lot of good stuff. The book is (obviously) about pain: if God is good, then why do bad things happen? What's the purpose of pain? And it does an excellent job ...
From C.S. Lewis in An Experiment in Criticism:
What then is the good of … occupying our hearts with stories of what never happened and entering vicariously into feelings which we should try to avoid having in our own person? ... The nearest I have yet got to an answer is ...
A few days ago I started reading Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. The cliffhangers pulled me along to page 70 or so, and then I had somewhere to go and had to put it down. And yet the whole time I was reading it, I felt...false. I don't ...
There doesn't seem to be much life on here lately. So, what kind of things do you want to read? To you, what defines a good book blog? I have my own ideas but I'd like to see what other people think. What's boring? Be ...
I just tried installing my fonts (just Minion and Myriad) onto the lab computer so I could use them in InDesign, and it worked. This makes me very happy. :) And the nice thing is that it automatically deletes them when I log out, so I don't have ...
Today in my History of the Book class we talked about textual criticism, particularly that of the Book of Mormon (my professor, Royal Skousen, is the one doing the critical text of the Book of Mormon). I'd expected it to be dry and boring, but to my surprise I ...
