Today concludes The Odyssey read-along that I’ve been involved with for the last month (I’ve already chatted about Books 1-6, 7-12, and 13-18). It was a lot of fun, although I must warn you that today’s post contains excessive use … Continue reading
Big O finally makes it home, and the action calms down a bit. In fact, the last half of The Odyssey is considerably slower than the first. It’s also more frustrating, since Big O goes on and on and on … Continue reading
Last week I was behind. This week I’m ahead. Because once I got reading, it was hard to stop! But this week’s assignment was to read Books 7-12, so I’ll be a good read-alonger and limit myself to discussing only … Continue reading
So. I’m reading The Odyssey. I’m not really sure why, but I do know that the Trish(a)s are behind it, somehow. At least this time we’re reading something good. After the fiasco that was The Brothers Karamazov, I, too, am … 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
