So there I was, reading the last section of North and South and zoning out (even though I was motivating myself with a Mexican Mocha (except it was decaf, which was probably where I went wrong)), when I suddenly had … Continue reading
I barely managed to finish this week’s North and South reading in time to post about it today. To be blunt, I thought it was boring. Until I started amusing myself with the language. But before I get to that, … Continue reading
Oh Gaskell…27 chapters in, and the infatuation is starting to wane. (But don’t worry, I still like you better than Austen.) The politics of the strike was not your finest moment (bor-ing!) and some of the scenes were waaaaaaaay too … Continue reading
Heather and Andi are up to no good (again…I tell you, those two are trouble with a capital T), and they suckered me into reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South. I’ve decided that readalongs are pretty much the only way … Continue reading
Hello from Oregon! I am vacationing this week. HB and I are at his yearly family reunion. 20 people, 2 houses…it is mostly good times, with interludes of too much family togetherness. Yesterday we raced go karts with the teenagers … 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
