Persuasion Jane Austen First published a long time ago 272 pages in my Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition ******************** Some random things: 1. I read this for A Classic’s Challenge (except I didn’t do any of the challenge posts this month). Originally, … Continue reading
The Stranger Albert Camus Translated by Matthew Ward 123 pages First published in 1942 This is a most unfortunate choice of covers (especially since it’s the edition that I own). It reminds me of the cover for Beat the Reaper, … Continue reading
As part of A Classics Challenge, this month we’re asked to discuss the author that we’re currently reading. The first prompt is an overview of the author. Since I’m reading The Stranger, I present Albert Camus: Albert Camus was born … Continue reading
In 2011 I was all anti-reading challenges. I think I burned myself out, since I’m not normally one for planning and deadlines and shit (that’s what work is for, and reading is not supposed to be work). But now that … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
