Books & family pictures

Aug 17, 2023 | Family, Reading

Creating a home means surrounding yourself with the things you love. Which means that our home is full of books and family pictures. Books As an avid reader since I could, I loved the sight, the feel, the smell of books and the taste and sound of the words as I read...

The perennial book – the Bible

Jul 13, 2020 | Reading, Religion

A book offer popped up on my email the other day. Nothing newsworthy about that, you say, as book offers appear daily, weekly, monthly in inboxes, especially those of readers of books and book reviews. But this one was offering an ancient book presented in a new and...

Reading for my life…

Apr 16, 2020 | Reading

…a continuation from Blog Number 44, July 2019 Why read fiction? “…to help us better understand human nature in its most glorious and wicked forms. That is the experience no one can appropriate because it is the one we all share—regardless of our racial, ethnic,...

Reading for my life

Jul 29, 2019 | Reading

I had a lively, contentious conversation with my grandson a couple of weeks ago. His stance is ‘Reading, what is it good for?’ and his opinion is firmly grounded in the deep data of the electronic world. Using his intelligence and computer savvy in the privacy of his...

Discovering brainy meals in an age of mental canapés

Apr 27, 2017 | Reading

Everyone agrees that the way to literacy is to read, read, then read some more. But in this era of mental canapés, a brainy meal in current affairs is hard to find. With newspapers getting thinner and thinner before they succumb to the anorexia of no readers, and...

Real news about reading

Mar 3, 2017 | Reading

Real news about reading Why do we read? For Galileo, the Greek philosopher, it was a way of having superhuman powers; for Kafka, the Hungarian writer, the “axe for the frozen sea within us”; for Carl Sagan, the American astrophysicist, “proof that humans are capable...