The critic said that once a year he read Kim; and he read Kim, it was plain, at whim: not to teach, not to criticize, just for love—he read it, as Kipling wrote it, just because he liked to, wanted to, couldn't help himself. To him it wasn't a means to a lecture of article, it was an end; he read it not for anything he could get out of it, but for itself. And isn't this what the work of art demands of us?...So I say to you, for a closing sentence, Read at whim! read at whim!
-Randall Jarrell, quoted by Alan Jacobs in The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Commonplace-book. Formerly Book of common places. orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. First usage recorded: 1578. - OED
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Packing for the Cape!
Kidlit
The Middle Moffat, Eleanor Estes
The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter, John Gosselink
Reckless, Cornelia Funke
Penny From Heaven, Jennifer L. Holm
Unexpected Magic, Diana Wynne Jones
Hattie Big Sky, Kirby Larson
The Savage, David Almond, illus. Dave McKean
A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park
The Sherwood Ring, Elizabeth Marie Pope
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, Gardy D. Schmidt
Adultlit
Cover Her Face, P. D. James
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Joy in the Morning, Betty Smith
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