The New York Times noted that Emory University is to receive papers of Flannery O'Connor in today's edition [http://nyti.ms/1EqCale] and revealed in the story that she's to be inducted into to American Poets Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the…
> 'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.' Marcus Tullius Cicero — The School of Life (@TheSchoolOfLife) September 22, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife/status/514021500450787328] Seeing this lovely thought reminds me that Seneca's On the Shortness of Life is near…
> Chart: How long it takes to read the books you’ve been putting off http://t.co/N7a7r3i4wr — Vox (@voxdotcom) September 17, 2014 [https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/512069681406947328]…
> "The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries." - Descartes #quotes [https://twitter.com/hashtag/quotes?src=hash] #amreading [https://twitter.com/hashtag/amreading?src=hash] — Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford) August 22, 2014 [https://twitter.com/OWC_Oxford/statuses/…
In this, at least, I am like Emerson. > "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." - Ralph Waldo Emerson #amreading [https://twitter.com/hashtag/amreading?src=hash] — Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford)…
There was a validation of a sort for me in this morning's New York Times. In a short interview, Sharon Sloane, CEO of Will Interactive, says [http://nyti.ms/1m9n73y] > I do something every day that I call “chair time.” It’s my time at home at…
> Totally agree "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." - Tolkien pic.twitter.com/dhVadNy1p3 [http://t.co/dhVadNy1p3] — marion chapsal (@MarionChapsal) July 29, 2014 [https://twitter.com/MarionChapsal/statuses/494157412585451521]…
> "I do not feel very confident that I can make anything satisfactory of Middlemarch." - George Eliot writing to John Blackwood, 11 Sept. 1869 — Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford) July 31, 2014 [https://twitter.com/OWC_Oxford/statuses/494832485780705280]…