I was taken by the movie Ladies in Lavender last night and went searching for the text this morning. It's a short story by an author previously unknown to me, William J. Locke [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Locke], but apparently well regarded in his time.…
Just in time, something I can repost for Brain Awareness Week > For #BrainAwarenessWeek [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BrainAwarenessWeek&src=hash], 7 fascinating reads on music, emotion, and the brain http://t.co/RHrB9kaUWi — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) March 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/brainpicker/statuses/444307556576800768] Of Braipicker&…
> In the Year 1600, only one man dared to dream of an infinite cosmos... #cosmos [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cosmos&src=hash] — COSMOS (@COSMOSonTV) March 10, 2014 [https://twitter.com/COSMOSonTV/statuses/442832085183889408] Neil deGrasse Tyson spent a significant amount of time taolking about Giordano Bruno and…
This seems full of meaning in a week when I received two volumes on aging (The Oxford Book on Aging and Fierce with Reality) and I can't wait the read the essay about being 90 that Roger Angell published in The New Yorker. Can't wait to…
My personal challenge of reading more, even two books at once, continues. I've started Leaves of Grass, and I'm continuing Daniel Deronda. But to make the mix a little more intense I'll be starting the MOOC Every Atom [http://courses.writinguniversity.org/course/every-atom]…
I'm being drawn more deepy into Eliot's Daniel Deronda and was pleased to read this in Chapter XIX. > under his [Daniel's] calm and somewhat self-repressed exterior there was a fervor which made him easily find poetry and romance among the events of every-day…
At the Daily Beast [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/14/growing-up-with-george-eliot-rebecca-mead-s-my-life-in-middlemarch.html] , Lucy Scholes writes about Middlemarch and Rebecca Mead's forthcoming book about it and its importance to her. > Virginia Woolf once described Middlemarch as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,…
I don't often invoke this rule, but I don't want to lose track of it, either. > From Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust, the Rule of 50 will change your life: Nobody is going to get any points in heaven by slogging their way through a…