There is no method but yourself
Wisely or no, this has pretty much been my haphazard method of reading poetry since I left formal study. With...
What is reading for?
A wonderful quotation about what reading can do for and to us. Not a question of clocking up facts or...
A real craving of nature
Branwell Bronte, the sister-eclipsed son in a family of six, caused them and his father great heartache through alcoholism and...
The measure of a philistine
Zafón's bibliophile characters are often as opinionated as they are erudite, and have no truck with people who barely read. ...
Riding the spine of a book
The book as a kind of flying broomstick or galloping horse taking the boy into story land.
'In my schoolboy...
Doors opening wherever she turned
Alan Bennett was born in Leeds and I liked this quotation chalked on a board in a café there. It's...
The history of books
An idea so intrinsic to reading books, particularly those you love and remember, that I had never consciously thought of...
A gallery of readers
To celebrate World Book Day, please visit this image gallery by the photographer Steve McCurry, a beautiful...
The spirit of a book
I like that the spirit of the book lives as much in the readers as in the writers. When I...
How to read a book in a language you don’t know (II)
I love children's books and their illustrations, and often buy second-hand at this or that flea-market. By now, we have...
From tapers to tinder
I loved this description of a young boy going to all lengths to be able to read as much as...
Hopelessly insane: Homer fans
Here Christopher Logue highlights the sheer vital durability of Homer and the magnitude of such sustainability, kept alive through a...
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