" I think the first reason we read is to shape our very essence, to form the selves from which we act. We read first to shape the person...

" I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything...

" We return to the house and take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! The air swims with life; the front...

" A charm of stillness in which something gathers..." ​ ​ Between the pages a silence gathers. The world finds pause, the ticking of the...

" Slow reading is a craft, a practice, a quiet movement, a meditative approach to the reading life." ~ to feel our landscape marvelously...

" Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world." {Vincent van Gogh} " I like old bookstores, the smell of coffee...

Last January, I found myself happily immersed between the pages of this mysterious, often funny and highly entertaining gothic novel. I...