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Daily Diversion #220: New Pillow for My Reading Chair
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”-Henry David Thoreau
Quirky Owls
[Alternative Muses] Happy Birthday, Emily!
Brontë, of course!
The weird sister was born on 30 July 1818.
“You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!”-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights Catherine and Heathcliff ACEO Portraits by Mrs Peggotty Arts. $49.44
[Book Nerd Links] Seven Links for a Tuesday
- 10 of the Most Depressing Places in Literature [courtesy Flavorwire]
- 20 Mind-Bending Aldous Huxley Books Covers [courtesy Flavorwire]
- Miniature Paintings Enshrined in Vintage Books [courtesy Flavorwire]
- William S. Burroughs’s Stunning Photography [courtesy Huff Post Books]
- A Literary Tour of Paris [courtesy Huff Post Books]
- Literary Tourism: Seattle [courtesy Book Riot]
- 25 Literary Pun Names For Your Cat [courtesy BuzzFeed Books]
Daily Diversion #219: My Book Family Keeps Growing, One Old Volume at a Time
Please welcome the newest member of my book family. A Western with a lovely cover, it’s at least mildly appropriate that I bought it at the State Fair. Note: The Antique Barn is next to the building where they display chickens, ducks, turkeys, and rabbits.
The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright. It was first published in 1911.
Fifteen years later, it was turned into a silent film starring Vilma Banky, Ronald Colman, and a fresh upstart named Gary Cooper in his first substantive role (but more on that another day).
“Not a line of Jefferson Worth’s countenance changed as the tall surveyor, pushing his way through the crowd about the new arrivals, greeted him. But Abe Lee felt the man from behind his gray mask reaching out to grasp his innermost thoughts and emotions.”-The Winning of Barbara Worth, Harold Bell Wright
Happy Birthday to My Love, George Bernard Shaw!
George Bernard Shaw was born on 26 July 1856:
1909: George Bernard Shaw looking dapper in a fab suit!
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.”-George Bernard Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island
My Annual Zelda Fitzgerald Birthday Post, This Time in Photographs
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was born on 24 July 1900. Her dreams ran bigger than her husband’s words, deeper than his fame. She was way more than a muse, a wife, a mother: she was a writer, and a damn fine one.*
*Zelda also danced and painted.
A Reading List a Mile Long: Daedalus Books New Arrivals Midsummer 2014
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”-Oscar Wilde
- Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein. $6.98. (Can you say, up my alley?)
- The Great War: A World War I Historical Collection by Robert J. Dalessandro & Erin R. Mahan. $9.98/The Great War in 3D: 1914-1918 by Jean-Pierre Verney. $19.95. (Hard to believe it has been one hundred years since the start of The Great War.)
- The Annotated Peter Pan: The Centennial Edition by J.M. Barrie. Maria Tatar, ed. $9.98. (Doesn’t this sound and look scrumptious?)
[Alternative Muses] Happy Birthday, Edward Hopper and Tom Robbins!
The House by the Railroad by Edward Hopper (born 22 July 1882). 1925.
“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t creak.”-Tom Robbins (born 22 July 1936)
[Alternative Muses] Two Exits and an Entrance: Burns, Terry, and Hemingway
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”-Ernest Hemingway
“Eulogy is nice but one does not learn anything from it.”-Ellen Terry
“Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!”-Robert Burns
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