Samuel Langhorne Clemens

"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
Mark Twain

Aug 18, 2010 at 7:37 AM

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If you are ever in Paris...

Shakespeare and Company is one of the worlds most famous bookstores 5th arrondissement, in Paris's Left Bank.  The store was considered the center of Anglo-American literary culture and modernism in Paris. Writers and artists of the "Lost Generation," such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, George Antheil, Man Ray and James Joyce

I love this quote which is written on one of the walls

Aug 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM

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Quote of the day

"A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out."
Doug Coupland

Aug 16, 2010 at 11:48 AM

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A Tree Grows in Detroit

Thanks to Dave (The BOOKMAN) for the story of this tree

A box elder tree grows from a soil made of ash and pulp from science textbooks in the Detroit Public Schools' Roosevelt Warehouse.

Aug 15, 2010 at 4:15 PM

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Book Art

Aug 14, 2010 at 8:20 AM

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Landscapes

Aug 10, 2010 at 8:53 AM

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Letting students choose books could make them better readers

We often get parents and educators lamenting the book choices kids make.  However this article by Erin Anderson in The Globe and Mail raises some interesting points

Letting students choose books could make them better readers

"Reading for pleasure – and not because there’s an essay due tomorrow – has been linked to improved scholastic achievement. Some education researchers have argued that means letting students – particularly in middle school and especially boys – freely choose what pages they want to turn."

We may want kids to read the books we loved as a child. Yet, our well meaning choices may reinforce that reading is a chore, rather than a pleasure.

Aug 8, 2010 at 12:21 PM

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Nice shelf you got there

While some might object to one of the words in this title, I am sure you will enjoy this blog http://bookshelfporn.com/

Aug 3, 2010 at 7:34 AM

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Now THAT'S fashionable!

Can't say I'm all that crazy about the dress, but the hat sure works for me!

Jul 21, 2010 at 10:46 AM

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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O'Rourke

Jul 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM

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