quotes
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Spring
Monday was the first day of astronomical spring. That means it is time to shed winter coats, open the windows, and read The Secret Garden. What? You don’t read The Secret Garden every spring? That is one of the unwritten laws of my life along with “always buy the books” and “there is no such thing as too much tea.” I thought I would share a few spring-themed quotes today. I haven’t done a quote post in a very long time. I’ll start with a quote from The Secret Garden. “Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?” “It is the sun falling on the rain and the…
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Quips and Quotes
Photo by MILKOVÍ on Unsplash It is late and I am tired. I can’t concentrate on the book I am reading. It is about the flying bombs of WWII. It doesn’t necessarily sound very interesting but, I assure you, it is. However, you can’t skim read it when you are tired. Instead, I have been puttering around on Goodreads looking at lists of quotes. I am always curious about what catches other people’s eyes when they are reading. Besides, it is a good way to get a taste of a writer’s style. Since I keep coming across quotes that I want to share with someone I am going to share them here with…
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Quotable Quotes
I like quotes. I enjoy meandering my way through the internet and seeing what pithy sayings I can find. I don’t enjoy inspirational quotes. My inner cynic rolls her eyes at them and moves on. I do like the phrase that catches your ear, the words that make you stop and think. Or stop and laugh. I appreciate how, frequently, so much can be said with so few words. So, since I spent a large portion of my evening scrolling through quotes it is only fair that I inflict them on you. We will start with Mark Twain. He seems to have been eminently quotable. I have been thinking that…
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Thoughts About Two Books–Mrs. Miniver And Chatterton Square
I read two books I loved recently. One was a reread. It is Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther. My local library has a bad habit of getting rid of older books so periodically I check out ones I particularly like in the hopes of preventing their culling. The last time I read Mrs. Miniver was before I started blogging so it was definitely time to check it out again. I was tempted to check out Dickens’ entire oeuvre in order to protect them as well. They looked like they hadn’t moved from the shelves in years. However, I thought the librarians might have some questions if I staggered up to…
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A Few (New) Favorite Quotes
I just fell down a rabbit hole on the internet. I was looking up a book for my son on Goodreads. An article in The Boston Globe had recommended it for teenage boys and since it was written in the 1940s and I like older books I meandered on over to Goodreads to check it out. The book is The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson. I quickly decided my son might like it (Vikings! Wars at sea! Treasure!) and was ready to move on when I got sucked in by the quote section. Now, I don’t have a Goodreads account and I only use it to read reviews every…
