From tapers to tinder
I loved this description of a young boy going to all lengths to be able to read as much as...
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...
Revisiting The Hobbit
The Hobbit is the first major book of which I have a conscious memory. Â Probably four or five years...
Hopelessly insane: Homer fans
Here Christopher Logue highlights the sheer vital durability of Homer and the magnitude of such sustainability, kept alive through a...
In praise of the slow, the deep and the difficult
Reading this, I am trying to figure out how to ‘restore the positive perception of certain almost lost qualities’ that...
Reading as a meandering canoe
This is a beautiful metaphor for a boy discovering the magic of reading and writing, both of which were forbidden...
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...
Podcast review – Elizabeth Goudge’s Little White Horse
Listening time: 13 minutes. One of my top two children's books of all time, I first read Elizabeth...
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. ...
Key Penmanship Indicators (KPIs) VI
This is a description by Anthony Burgess of the reader's reaction to Mervyn Peake's writing in the intricately imaginative Gormenghast...
Basilicata bibliomotocarro
Antonio La Cava, a retired school teacher, converted a quintessential Italian vehicle, the three-wheeler micro-van, into a travelling library.
For...
The best part of books…
Obvious when you put it like that. But it’s got me trying to think of what’s actually happening in books...
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