“Literature is the last banquet between minds.”-Edna O’Brien
Edna O’Brien on the Last Banquet
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What Are You Reading in June?
It’s a new season! Have you changed your reading habits to suit the demands of warmer weather, or do those habits stay steady year-round?
I’ve been so wrapped up in creative projects, that my reading has, by my standards, practically slowed to a trickle.
Since 1st June, I’ve finished:
- The Fauves (Art of Century Collection) by Nathalia Brodskaia
I’m in the midst of reading:
- Thinking About it Only Makes it Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life by David Mitchell
- Ilya Repin by Grigori Sternin and Jelena Kirillina
To be finished by 30th June:
- Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham
What is your favourite book this month?
Which book on your list do you most look forward to reading?
Please share with me in the comments.
Happy reading!
Erich Maria Remarque Quote
This is pretty decent writing advice, too, if taken only when needed.
Erich Maria Remarque Quote
[Book Nerd Links] Four Links for the New Week
- A Comic Book Character Seeks Sexual Empowerment in Postwar Italy [HYPERALLERGIC]
- Get over it [THE ECONOMIST]
- Now There’s a Rotten Tomatoes for Books, and It’s Called Book Marks [FLAVORWIRE]
- See the Fabulous Wardrobe of the French Countess Who Inspired Marcel Proust [NEW YORK RACKED]
William Styron on Great Books
William Styron Quote
It’s Your Birthday, Thomas Mann!
German writer Thomas Mann was born on 6 June 1875. Here he is as a young man with an exceptionally fine mustache:
A Young Thomas Mann
[Book Nerd Links] Hardy, Ginsberg, Whitman, and Reading Nooks
- Thomas Hardy’s Letters Will Ruin Your Day [THE PARIS REVIEW]
- An Illustrated Guide to Ginsberg’s Delightful Poem on Walt Whitman [SIGNATURE]
- 20 Beautiful Reading Nook Designs for Cozy Bookishness [FLAVORWIRE]
Theodore Roethke on the Damage of Haste
Theodore Roethke Quote
Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero!
English actor and playwright (The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, The Enchanted Cottage*) Sir Arthur Wing Pinero was born on 24 May 1855:
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 1910
*As a teenager, I was straight up obsessed with the 1945 film adaptation of The Enchanted Cottage, starring Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire. It practically gave me life for a few years. This was *totally normal* for a teen in the late eighties/early nineties, right?
Happy Birthday, Margaret Wise Brown!
Children’s author Margaret Wise Brown was born on 23 May 1910. She is best known for the books Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.
Margaret Wise Brown. Brooklyn Museum.
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