Attending a good bookstore makes me realize how relatively little I have read. Borges’s “Library of Babel” makes one feel similarly small.
Tag Archives: books
A Bookstore and the Library of Babel
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged bookstores, Jorge Louis Borges, Library of Babel Comments closed
Maybe Books Choose Us
In Ozeki’s “Book of Form & Emptiness,” books have special ways of getting through to us.
A World of Books amid a World of Green
Treat yourself to two delightful poems about books and gardens by the Victorian/Edwardian poet Richard Le Gallienne.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Library in a Garden", libraries, Richard Le Gallienne Comments closed
The Secret Ecstasy of Reading
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Aurora Leigh” captures my own relationship with books.
Books Helped Free Angelou’s Caged Bird
Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday, found strength in the literature of Shakespeare, Poe, Dunbar, and others.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, literature, Maya Angelou, Suffering Comments closed
