bibliophilia

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• Some Sort of Summing Up

  
  (Mis)readings — Authority: 109
  Earlier this year , I promised myself to read or at least get myself copies of certain books before the year ends. I’ve read some of them. But shifting interests made me change the prioritization of the reading of some titles. Not a single title in the original plan, for example, were by a Filipino writer whereas I ...
  1 week ago

• John Heidenrys Zero at the Bone

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  There is serious reading and there is bed reading.  Serious reading is for stretching the mind and improving the soul.  It cannot be well done in bed but requires the alertness and seriousness provide by desk, hard chair, note-taking and coffee-drinking.  It is a pleasure, but one stiffened with an alloy of ...
  1 week ago

• Book Rec: Hunting and Gathering

  
  Living Creatively Ever After — Authority: 125
  ‘Franck?’‘Yes?’‘I have six sisters…’‘So?’‘So let me tell you, it’s the simplest thing in the word: give in, what woman wants, God wants’‘Who said that?’‘It’s folk wisdom’Title: Hunting and Gathering (Ensemble c’est tout)Author: Anna GavaldaComments:This is is a long overdue post, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ferdinand Gregorovius: the man on the spot, still?

  
  A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe — Authority: 119
  A conversation with its originator revealed that I had at least slightly misunderstood the intended slant of the lecture for which I was running through stuff on the early medieval papacy a little while ago , which is just as well given how much I managed to find. I assume that the situation is better in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Happy Birthday, George Eliot! (Appreciating the Avuncular)

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 624
  It is perhaps fitting that my youngest nephew celebrates his first birthday today (three days before the actual event) on the 113th anniversary of the birth of his great-great Aunt Ruth and the 190th anniversary of the birth of the greatest English novelist who ever lived, Mary Anne Evans Cross (AKA George Eliot). ...
  4 weeks ago

• paperbackgirl:anthropologie is selling adorable clothbound...

  
  Considering Lily — Authority: 143
  paperbackgirl : anthropologie is selling adorable clothbound penguin classics . I have a sickness that requires I purchase all beautifully bound books.
  4 weeks ago

• A Few Good Books

  
  Living Creatively Ever After — Authority: 125
  Spending  my daily commute to work either nodding off or reading books. I’ve read good ones lately but I haven’t found the time to type up a book rec , so to remind myself I’m gonna list them all down along with a short description. You might also want to check them out:1. Hunting and [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Sarah Palin’s Next Book: A Recommendation

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 624
  With Sarah Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue:  An American Life going gangbusters on amazon, currently their #1 seller (it was released only today, yet has spent 50 days in the online bookseller’s top 100), it’s clear that this accomplished former Governor can both infuriate liberals and sell books. It seems ...
  4 weeks ago

• Book Giveaway: The Monty Hall Problem

  
  Science After Sunclipse — Authority: 457
  I just noticed on my blag sidebar that the ScienceBorg Collective is offering ten free copies of Jason Rosenhouse s much-lauded book, The Monty Hall Problem (2009). Ten winners will be chosen, one each day for ten days, and the urn will be refilled anew each day. Enter now (no purchase necessary, offer void ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sleeping with books

  
  ouno — Authority: 421
  “I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”  ~Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,”  New York Times , 7 August 1991. Thanks to kellylynnwaters for the photo, which is originally from Morgan Puett via pjb . ...
  5 weeks ago

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