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The Writers’ House Calendar by Amanda White
Amanda White runs one of my favourite literary-themed Etsy shops. I also follow her on Facebook, so I was thrilled to find her 2016 calendar for sale at my local Barnes and Noble.
The Writers’ House Calendar for 2016.
This is another reason to look forward to the new year!
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“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.”-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
[Book Nerd Links] Back Issues, Richard Hell, Street Art, and More
- Favorites from the Archive [THE PARIS REVIEW]
- Classic Dionysian Shit: An Interview with Richard Hell [THE PARIS REVIEW]
- Art Historical Figures as Unexpected Street Art Collages Around the World [FLAVORWIRE]
- 10 Snowy Reads To Snuggle Up With This Winter [HUFFPOST]
- Classic Book Recommendations For Every Person In Your Life [HUFFPOST]
What Are You Reading in December?
What is on your reading list this month?
Have you given yourself permission to take it easy, as the year comes to a close?
Or, as we race the clock to 2016, are you trying to stuff as many books into your brain as possible?
I am still doing the latter, albeit at a slower pace compared to November.
The other difference between this month and last is that I am currently committed to reading lighter fare.
Since 1st December, I’ve finished:
- Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema by Tom Lesanti
- Busted by Thomas J. Craughwell
I’m in the midst of reading:
- Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era Edited by Lean’Tin L. Bracks and Jessie Carney Smith
- Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors by Andrew Shaffer
To Be Read by 31 December:
- The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 by Zachary Leader
- Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
- My Golden Flying Years by Air Commodore D’Arcy Greig
- The Mind of the Artist by Laurence Binyon
Effie Gray Ruskin by George Frederic Watts, 1851.
What is your favourite book this month?
Which book on your list are you most looking forward to reading?
Please share with me in the comments!
Happy reading.
Two Jean Toomer Quotes
“Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.”-Jean Toomer
“We do not possess imagination enough to sense what we are missing.”-Jean Toomer
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Wilkie Collins
- Name: Wilkie Collins
- D/O/B: 8 January 1824
- Member Since: 1871
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Director and star of the club’s amateur theatricals
- Hobbies: Socializing with Charles Dickens; acting; painting
Wilkie Collins by Frederick Waddy, 1872.
[Book Nerd Links] Shakespeare Posters
Three Chapters: Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein at 3
Gertrude Stein by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913
Gertrude Stein on the cover of the 11 September 1933 issue of TIME Magazine
Gertrude Stein: 3 February 1874-27 July 1946
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!
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