April 2012
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I am a partisan for conversation. To make room for it, I see some first,...
– The Flight From Conversation - NYTimes.com
Bravo!
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More fetching than a girl with a dragon tattoo has always been a girl with a...
– Dwight Garner, our new crush, in his Sunday piece, “The Way We Read Now.” (via classicpenguin)
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I don’t know how good a writer I am,” he confided as he leafed through a stack...
– The Man Who Never Stops | Robert Caro
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Yale University Card Catalog (by Ellen Su)
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My nephew Zachary, 7, is a hard-core fort builder and has specific design ideas....
– Lessons in the Art of Pillow-Fort Construction - NYTimes.com
YES!
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Quite a few people just can’t get past the numbers. I didn’t even think to...
– Keeping Track of Reading Habits With a ‘Book of Books’ - NYTimes.com
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Captain Kirk: There are times, Mr. Spock when I think I should have been a...
– Star Trek, 1974. (via rubyjeanlouise)
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mummat:
A friend sent me this on fb and wrote: “I thought of you when I saw this.”
She knows me too well!
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to...
– A. H. (via wanderingthelabyrinthoflife)
And Women, too!
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Everywhere he goes, he gets four-star service. Doors are opened, luggage is...
– Living Like a Billionaire, if Only for a Day - NYTimes.com
Umm. Excuse me while I puke for the next 48 hours.
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THE LIBRARY, like the book, is under assault by the new technologies, which...
– Leon Wieseltier (via thebronzemedal)
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Our new home, and reading. →
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