Quote of the Week: The Scarlet Letter
The novel that I am quoting this week is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
The novel that I am quoting this week is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
The statue “Laocoön and His Sons”, (or as I learned it, “The “Laocoön Group”) is one of the most notable statues of Greco-Roman antiquity.
The poem for the week is “Much Madness is Divinest Sense” by Emily Dickinson.
Consider this your Thursday laugh break: Kate Beaton (of Page Pulp favorite Hark! A Vagrant!)’s take on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
The novel I am quoting this week is the novel from which all modern vampire novels (good and the bad) owe their debts, Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Yesterday, I was forwarded a link to a post on Google Plus from Brandon Sanderson. In it, he relays some very exciting news for fans of the Wheel of Time series.
The poem for this week is “A Clear Midnight” by Walt Whitman, which is taken from Leaves of Grass.
his week we are taking a trip to the Shire and looking at the covers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring.
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
- Victor Hugo,
“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.”
― Diane Setterfield
"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates