Archive: Bookland category
Dare I admit this? I felt like a movie tonight, so I rented Sense and Sensibility from the campus bookstore. (Covertly, of course, because as a guy -- especially alone -- it's not the sort of movie you want to be caught holding.) That's confession #1. ...
Yesterday a friend asked me why I like C.S. Lewis so much. Good question. And good questions deserve thoughtful answers, so I've been thinking about it since then and have come up with the three biggest reasons:
1. Heaven. How can I describe this? There's a feeling ...
I'm not doing so hot at posting in here regularly, am I. I'm still reading Jane Eyre and The Silver Chair and How to Read a Book, along with the usual textbooks. It's been getting harder to find time for extracurricular reading, but I'm determined to keep at ...
In the next week I plan to finish the design of Translating Scripture: The Thai Book of Mormon and the cover (which I haven't even started on yet), so that I can focus my time in this next month before the deadline (February 20) on editing and copyfitting. Let ...
A while ago I started reading Jane Eyre and loved it, but for an unaccountable reason I put it down and didn't pick it up again until last night. Now I'm determined to forge on until I finish, because it is absolutely amazing. I've also started reading The ...
This morning I came across a blog entry in some thoughts which linked to the following Mortimer Adler essay: How to Mark a Book. It's similar in many respects to the section in How to Read a Book that I mentioned the other day, but there are ...
I finished reading C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce today, for the second time. In the last 40 pages I decided to start marking passages I liked. Of those 40 pages, only 11 don't have markings now. :) Here are some of the good quotes and the page ...
Found this quote on Book Quotes while looking for a title quote for this blog:
"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book." —Groucho Marx
And off we go! I write about books often enough (and plan on writing about them more and more frequently) that I pretty much had to create a new blog devoted solely to books and the world surrounding them. (I probably should mention here that I'm a librarian-in-embryo ...
