“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”-Henry Miller
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Category Archives: Reading
October Round-Up: Eleven Interesting Posts
- [Alternative Muses] Going and Coming Mashup: William Morris/Thomas Wolfe
- Ted Hughes Quote
- Goodbye, Cocteau!
- [Book Nerd Films] Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-Official Trailer #1
- [Intermezzo] Reading in October
- Virginia Woolf: A Few Words on a Writer’s Diary [with More to Come Later]
- Because I’m Really “Feeling” This Gwen John Painting Today
- Three Chapters: Gertrude Stein
- Off Topic Post: Composers
- Because I Love This Photo of
- The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Wilkie Collins
Virginia Woolf: A Few Words on A Writer’s Diary (with More to Come Later)
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”-Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
Portrait of Virginia Woolf by Roger Fry. Circa 1917.
There isn’t a better book to read in October than Virginia Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary. Oh, it is extraordinary (in the full pulse of the word)!
“There’s no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.”-Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
The struggle to harness one’s creativity is universal and timeless. It’s a constant fight. Battle on, friends!
[Intermezzo] Reading in October
Plath. Ibsen. Woolf.
Dickinson.
Bloomsbury. Chekhov.
Millay.
Modernism. Tolstoy.
And Charles Chaplin.
Etc.
What are you reading this month?
[Book Nerd Links] The Map of Literary Genres Every Book Nerd Needs
The Map of Literary Genres Every Book Nerd Needs [HUFFPOST BOOKS]
These are glorious!
Upton Sinclair: 20 September 1878
Pulitzer Prize winning author Upton Sinclair was born on 20 September 1878. As many of you know, I love this photo of him as a young man:
Upton Sinclair
You can download a copy of his most important work, The Jungle, at Project Gutenberg.
Cover of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906.
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“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”-Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again
Books in Art: The Misses Vickers by John Singer Sargent
The Misses Vickers by John Singer Sargent, 1884
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“Everything comes to he who waits, except a loaned book.”-Kin Hubbard
(Hubba hubba!) Kin Hubbard, 1908
[Book Nerd Links] The Folio Society
The Folio Society: Devoted to Beautiful Books [AbeBooks]
Talk about stunning!
I love The Icelandic Sagas and At the Back of the North Wind.
Which design is your favourite?
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 