Now we are six (II)
Dear Kind Reader,
Firstly, happy St Jordi's Day, the Valentine's Day of booklovers.  And this year, the 23 April lands...
The spirit of the letter
Luiz found this beautiful book at our favourite flea market in Geneva. I liked the cover image and title, which...
The Saturday of Libraries
When we moved to the town of Nyon, I joined the municipal library. The building itself is worth writing about...
The Magic Ink-Pot
Always on the hunt for treasures among forgotten children's books, I came across this one by chance when I was...
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...
My publisher, falsely so called…
Listening time: under 3 minutes.
I loved this drawn out account of Thoreau's dealings with a publisher wanting...
A wilderness of books
This vast languishing resource was first brought home to me in Erik Reinert's How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and...
Reading as travel
The Rat is a street-savvy kid in a barely known children's book by the author of the infinitely famous
5 years old today!
Dear Kind Readers,
When we launched WritingRedux on Shakespeare's and Cervantes' birthday five years ago, we had the freedom to...
Intimate and familiar
A striking idea, that in being true, a book will feel intimate and familiar to all men. Â 'True' surely means...
Books lost and gained
In Leigh Fermor's enchanting walk across Europe, he find islands of great hospitality where he can rest and recuperate from...
Shelebrate with a shelfie
With a nod to the British Library which introduced me to the idea of the 'shelfie', a photo featuring a...
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