Truer than …
Reading the book in Barcelona, this phrase resonated as I'd discovered the simple snack you can order alongside your drink...
Another context, another grin
Having recently found a seashore's surf likened to a grin, I was struck by the keyboard...
A curse in its Sunday best
May you be spared any such presence and any such curse. Great phrasing though.
'His presence was...
Killing flies in midair
Memorably describing the oratory of one of several colourful, eloquent characters in Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind, a...
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...
Book as mirror II
One of the most reassuring and surprising insights I found in reading Harold Bloom's literary criticism, was the realization that...
As weighty as …
A refreshing change from references to lead and other heavy materials, I liked this silence as weighty as the Swiss...
Dead languages or dormant minds?
There are some marvelous characters in The Shadow of the Wind, several of them highly opinionated and articulate orators, who...
Culling of books …
I sometimes feel like this when we go to the flea market in Geneva and survey a lifetime's worth of...
Reading to live more intensely
Reading allows you to meet people, places, periods and perspectives you might never otherwise encounter, intensifying your experience of life. ...
We exist while we are remembered
This theme captivates me and I have other quotations on the idea that we live for as long as someone...
Book as mirror I
A great riposte, of course, and true to a large extent. Having dismissed a book, it sometimes happens that I...
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