The magic of books
A beautiful description of what makes books so magical. May all yours be capacious of promise, even as...
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...
My kind of library – Rijksmuseum
Love this library and will book a morning there to read and write when we make it to the Rijksmuseum. ...
What is reading for?
A wonderful quotation about what reading can do for and to us. Not a question of clocking up facts or...
An inviting writing table
As you know I have a penchant for places which foster the timeless absorption of concentrated reading or writing, or...
A café in Porto
I have never been to this café but would love to spend a morning there writing postcards and reading newspapers....
A sunny spot to read
I fell in love with this room when I saw this sunlit painting. The Victorian artist has captured a perfect...
Basilicata bibliomotocarro
Antonio La Cava, a retired school teacher, converted a quintessential Italian vehicle, the three-wheeler micro-van, into a travelling library.
For...
Immortality by reading
This wonderful quotation was published in El Pais in the days following Umberto Eco’s passing.  Wishing you 5,000 years of reading-endowed...
Unexpected ignorance, unexpected knowledge
Maggie Tulliver is a girl whose brightness and spirit are constantly curtailed and nearly crushed. Throughout her childhood she is...
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...
Beach books
We recently enjoyed a month's holiday - the longest we've ever had - to celebrate Luiz's retirement. One of the...
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