“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”-Henry David Thoreau
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Daily Diversion #220: New Pillow for My Reading Chair
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[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
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
Daily Prompt: My Best Friend
Do I believe in the concept of best friends? Of course I do! See below:
Al and Nic: Goofing off.
We’re 98% the same person. She’s my best friend, my sister from another mother, my platonic other half. Nic is one of the handful of things that makes life precious, and worth living.
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”-A.A. Milne
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
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Edgar Degas/Margaret Fuller Mashup
1869: Ironing Woman by Edgar Degas (born on 7/19/1834)
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”-Margaret Fuller (died on 7/19/1850)
1877: Dancers Practicing at the Bar by Edgar Degas
Shopping for the Bookworm: C is for Cather, Willa
“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.”-Willa Cather
Willa Cather My Antonia Library Card Catalog Pendant by Parker’s Porch. $27.00
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