Mitz
A kind thanks to the folks at Soft Skull Press who sent me a copy of Mitz: The Marmoset of …
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Back to Proust
After a Proust hiatus I have finally jumped back in and it’s like I never left. I’m on The Guermantes …
Why I Keep Going
Dorothy posted recently about her reading in Life of Johnson and mentioned Richardson and Fielding. She even quoted Johnson’s famous …
Emerson, Taking it to the Masses
The editor’s note for Emerson’s Conduct of Life essay, Considerations by the Way, intimates that this essay is for those …
The Book Thief
I sobbed my way through the last fifty-odd pages of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak last night. You’d think …
Web Archives
Have I mentioned lately how much I love the internet? In the February/March issue of Bookforum they have a small …
More on Locke and Commonplace Books
Last night I spent a pleasant chunk of time reading a lecture called A Philosopher and His Notebooks: John Locke …
Reading Update
I haven’t done a reading update in awhile so I thought today seemed like the perfect day for it. The …
I Love Books!
Okay you lovers of books about books. I finished Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas Basbanes before I got sick …
Emerson on Worship
How can you not admire a person who writes something like this: I dip my pen in the blackest ink, …
