31 3 / 2012
Classic Lines - SWOON!
Since we’re so in love with our new Classic Lines series we’re giving a set away.
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Rain or shin, there’s nothing like a set of gorgeous covers and timeless reads…
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18 3 / 2012
The Enthusiast
“I couldn’t tan, hated cars, refused to surf and flunked volleyball, grunion-hunting and puberty rite. Like lonely kids everywhere, I entered into books as if into a conspiracy — for company, of course, and for narrative and romance and advice on how to be decent and brave and sexy. But also for transcendence, a zap to the synaptic cleft; for a slice of the strange, the shock of an Other, a witness not yet heard from, archaeologies forgotten, ignored or despised; that radioactive glow of genius in the dark: grace notes, ghosts and gods.”
John Leonard’s ‘Reading for My Life’
18 3 / 2012
Why Finish Books?
The Italians have a nice word here. They call plot trama, a word whose primary meaning is weft, woof or weave. It is the pattern of the weave that we most savor in a plot—Hamlet’s dilemma, perhaps, or the awesome unsustainability of Dorothea’s marriage to Casaubon—but not its solution.
~ Tim Parks (NYRBlog)
13 3 / 2012
I call it pootling
Puttering (or pottering or putzing, depending on your tribe) is an activity, if it can be properly called that, of desultory bliss. It’s a mental and physical wandering that helpfully repels any impulse to be genuinely productive. The word—which evokes other varieties of ineffectuality, such as spluttering and stuttering—has an archaic taint, bringing to mind biddies in their rose gardens and widowers with their coin collections. But modern life has elevated puttering to an aspirational necessity. Just as generations of working men yearned for their Sunday-morning tee time, now overbusy people choose to celebrate their individuated Sabbaths with a round of fussing about.
To Putter, Divine (NYMag)
13 3 / 2012
Deeper into the Twungle
On Twitter, playland of masqueraders, we are what we choose to divulge. Or to conceal. It’s nice to have some choice left, about something.
~ Margaret Atwood (NYBooks)
14 2 / 2012
Adore these literary love notes
Jane Austen quote cards and postcards!
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(via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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21 11 / 2011
"It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others."
