Life is Short, Read Good Books
If you want to feel stressed out as a reader, then be sure to read the article Life’s Too Short: …
Category Archives: Reading
Reading and Forgetting
We read and read and read, and we forget and forget and forget. So why do we bother? Joshua Foer …
A Right Place to Read?
Pope is doubtless at his best in the middle of a formal garden, Herrick in an orchard and Shelley in …
Pleasure as Critical Guide
It’s a good day for an Auden nugget. This nugget comes from his essay “Reading” in The Dyer’s Hand Pleasure …
Howards End is on the Landing
From various posts around book blogland I knew that Susan Hill’s Howards End is on the Landing got mixed reviews. …
What is a Bad Book?
My inaugural Auden post about reviewing bad books got so many comments I hope you all don’t mind if I …
At Home
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson is the first book of his I’ve read. I …
Readers: Born or Made?
Are readers born or made? Can a love of reading be taught? Or are teachers trying to instill a love …
60,000 Years of Reading
If you read a book a day, it would take 60,000 years to read every book currently cataloged in the …
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
When offered a review copy of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch I couldn’t say no. I figured …
