Archive: Bookland category
Watched Emma this evening. (I guess I'm on a chick flick roll. :)) Like Sense and Sensibility, I loved it! And now I must come up with excuses that explain why a man should find such movies entertaining, for apparently guys are not supposed to like movies ...
I've never really been a fan of audio books, but then again I've never really listened to any. Today at the bookstore I was reading in Steve Leveen's The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life and came across the chapter entitled "Reading With Your Ears." He did a ...
At times -- usually when working at the computer -- I start feeling like someone's taking my head and grating carrots with it. Not a fun feeling. Until recently, I didn't know what to do about it, either. But now I have found the solution: books. ...
Found an excellent article by Michael Knox Beran entitled In Defense of Memorization. And after reading it I took 15 minutes to memorize Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening":
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see ...
For the C.S. Lewis Society meeting on Monday, we read "The Weight of Glory" (the essay itself, that is, not the whole collection of essays). It's amazing. Where to begin? I don't want to spoil it for anyone, so I'll just quote my two favorite parts:
I ...
Today in my History of the Book class we made paper. :) A local guy, Rob Buchart, runs his own fine-book press and makes the paper and so he showed us how it's done. He took the fibers (shredded rags beaten to a pulp, basically) and stirred them ...
Last night I memorized Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty":
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the ...
After watching Willoughby recite a Shakespearean sonnet by heart in Sense and Sensibility last night, I've been taken with the idea of learning poetry by heart. So I started with the scriptures this morning, memorizing part of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:25-34). Good stuff. I'll ...
From the blog of the American Chesterton Society, this bit by Chesterton on journalism:
"Nothing looks more neat and regular than a newspaper, with its parallel columns, its mechanical printing, its detailed facts and figures, its responsible, polysyllabic leading articles. Nothing, as a matter of fact, goes every night through ...
Came across this great quote in chapter 12 of Jane Eyre:
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions ...
