Seven boxes. Seven boxes of books so far. O_o
kittivanilli
Mar 14
Feb 03
![February Photo a Day: Hands
In the last week, I’ve read The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Valley of Fear (Doyle) and The Red House Mystery (A.A. Milne). Currently: The Circular Staircase (Mary Roberts Rinehart). [my flickr]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyughgBX1Q1qzygpco1_500.jpg)
February Photo a Day: Hands
In the last week, I’ve read The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Valley of Fear (Doyle) and The Red House Mystery (A.A. Milne). Currently: The Circular Staircase (Mary Roberts Rinehart). [my flickr]
Jan 26
Not much to do these days besides read. I’m still plodding through Middlemarch, though I’ve taken a couple of breaks from it to read something easier.
Recently finished (and all free in Kindle version):
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (I realized halfway through it that I’d probably read it before because parts started sounding familiar, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember any of it. I finally got to the end and realized the reason I didn’t remember any of it is because it’s boring as shit.)
Oct 15
UC Berkeley Bacon Library Stacks (1894)
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Just FYI.
I’m out of things to read, so I pulled out my American lit textbook from college. Hence the Bradstreet poem, and probably several future posts. I’ve been marking things as I come to them.
Yay, learning! I know you’re all excited.
Sep 03
“ You may not see it now,” said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo’s puzzled face, “but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you’re sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it’s much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
Aug 25
serieusement replied to your post: Happy Thing of the Day #4
Middlemarch was just about to come up on MY reading list (because of course it was). Are you saying I should push it back to the bottom of the list?
Ellie assures me it gets better, so I’m going to trust her judgment and keep going.
Aug 24
Happy Thing of the Day #4
I have a new pillow that is lovely and doesn’t make my neck hurt after sleeping on it. In consequence, fewer headaches!
An update on my reading list:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
- Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
- Poems by Emily Dickinson
- This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)
I knocked out the Agatha Christies first because they were shorter, and for a while I was reading exclusively on my phone. Then I found I could download a free Kindle reader for my laptop, so I started on Middlemarch. It’s been recommended to me multiple times, but oh my GOD it’s so boring. I got through the first two chapters, but unless someone can tell me it gets a hell of a lot better, I think I’m done.
Aug 19
Happy Thing of the Day
My phone magically has Kindle installed on it now, and I downloaded a bunch of free classics to read. I ran out of books a week or two ago and haven’t wanted to spend money on new ones. Now I don’t have to for a little while. :)
On the reading list:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
- Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
- Poems by Emily Dickinson
- This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Middlemarch (George Eliot)
- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
- Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)
Jun 26
![161/365: New Book
Finally started on the last of my new Christmas books. Thoughts so far: A+ choice, Ellie. [my flickr]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnfc4bTf1s1qzygpco1_r1_500.jpg)
Finally started on the last of my new Christmas books. Thoughts so far: A+ choice, Ellie. [my flickr]
Jun 22
![159/365: Research
For somebody’s birthday present… [my flickr]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln66brvvkQ1qzygpco1_500.jpg)
For somebody’s birthday present… [my flickr]
Jun 17
The Polyglot Project is a free online library of literature in many languages. Studying French? Why not read Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert in the original French? Or read Goethe’s Faust in German or Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s Don Quijote in Spanish? Double click a word you don’t know and it pops up the equivalent word in your native language. If you create an account, you get full access and they’ll bookmark your spot, too, so you can read in installments. They have books in German, English, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Russian, and more. While the library isn’t so big yet, it’s a great resource if you’re studying a language and a good exercise for the budding polyglot.
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Jun 07
![145/365: Inscription
My brother’s birthday gift to me: a copy of Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide, signed by one of the authors. [my flickr]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmfc6pb2ic1qzygpco1_r1_500.jpg)
My brother’s birthday gift to me: a copy of Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide, signed by one of the authors. [my flickr]
May 17
The top may not reach unto heaven, but the Argentinian artist Marta Minujin’s 25-metre tower is made of 30,000 books in languages from all over the world. Built in San Martin Square, Buenos Aires, to mark the Argentinian city’s naming as 2011 World Book Capital, the artist suggested that in 100 years people will say “there was a Tower of Babel in Argentina… and it didn’t need translation because art needs no translation.” (Photo: Natacha Pisarenko/AP)
