Binge Reading Craving
I am in need of a reading binge. Do you ever crave those? You take a couple days off of …
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Politics at the Library
A little late to the blog today because my Bookman and I were outside finishing up digging a new strawberry …
Emerson on the Immortality of the Soul
The final piece in Emerson’s book Letters and Social Aims is Immortality. The basis of the essay is a lecture …
Reading Update
How’s this for a creepy opening? No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute …
How Many Words, New Books, and More!
It seems there was something I had planned to write about today. Something nice and coherent and almost certainly brilliant. …
Seeing Redd
I finished my first RIP Challenge book at lunch yesterday. One down, three to go! I read Looking Glass War …
How Many Words?
Pinker’s chapter on words in Language Instinct turned out to be quite interesting. How many words would you say the …
A Meme and Some Controversy
Had a little fun with Sylvia’s Book Cover meme. It’s simple. Type your name into the Amazon search box and …
Greatness
It’s essays like Greatness that make me love Emerson. What I enjoy most about this essay and about Emerson is …
A Little Poetry For Your Friday.
I’m still reading Rumi. His poems make me feel happy, calm, thoughtful. I frequently find myself nodding, or murmuring, “aaahh.” …
