This is a must read for you Canadians. Rich Terfry (Buck 65) weaves together some incredibly entertaining tales of his journey from his childhood in the Maritimes, to CBC radio host and seasoned hip-hop artist. Highly recommended.
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We recently picked up a really nice illustrated volume of William Cowper's poetry with some beautiful gold gilding. We can't seem to find a date inside. If anyone has an idea, please let us know!
Isaac Asimov is quite the wonder. Master of Science Fiction, Physics, Shakespeare, History and more. His passion for learning and writing were outstanding. It must be a wonderful feeling, to have something so special inside of you.
The loss of the great Daniel Naroditsky is immense. A legend on and off the board. He'll be missed.
We need something tonight to make us smile in light of such a tragic loss. John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" should do nicely.
Raymond Chandler. Master storyteller of Noir and the Hardboiled Detective. A reading of the High Window might be required for this week's #WindowFriday
Wow. These stories from Stuart McLean are so great. They contain so much humour, heart, and real life. We’ve really fallen in love with them. Really, really impressed.
It's good to sit down and crack open a window into the thoughts of great thinkers from the past. They're so different than those of today. There's a sense of substance and weight to them, unlike the majority of "thoughts" that get floated around today.
Mythology. Nobody did it better than Edith Hamilton. The way she lays out the stories, connects them, and created these amazing family trees for further depth...is just unparalleled. The House of Atreus is a terrifying tale for this spooky season.
Is there a book that so wonderfully captures and interlaces coziness, humour, wholesomeness, and adventure quite like Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows? We think not, but if you know of any top contenders, please do let us know.
This is a madness of which we never want to be cured. Behold, Nicholas Bisbanes tome "A Gentle Madness". A book about bibliophiles. In it, he tells a tale of a gentlemen who could apparently identify any of his personal library books by smell alone. Amazing.
Lately when reading, we've taken up the habit of looking up words in an actual dictionary. It just feels better when you work for it, when you extract the knowledge from another book, instead of looking it up on your phone or asking a smart device to do the work for you.
Don't you just love it when they design the spines of books like this?
We love the work of Edward Hopper, and have been looking forward to reading this for quite some time now. His artistic style is so unique. So far we've only managed to procure one of his pieces. Route 6, Eastham. Can't wait to start the book.
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”
-Walt Whitman
Check out this wonderful cloth edition of Leaves of Grass, complimented by beautiful illustrations created by Lewis C. Daniel.
Check out this fantastic hardcover set we found at our local used book shop.
This is fantastic news. We just picked up these wonderful books from our local used book store the other day. Support your local used book stores, everyone.
"Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see."
Makes you think more deeply about those "coincidences" you experience.
@publicdomainrev Beautiful. It pairs nicely with our reading of The Wind in the Willows.
Nice! We just started dipping into “Man and His Symbols”.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
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