“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, […]” ― Studs Terkel “Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.”― Henry Stevens “Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the … Continue reading More than Edibles
It’s interesting to note that “liber” means book and free in Latin, with a slightly different pronunciation. My books are free and move between shelves all the time. Quite different to my parent’s house where we placed a book approximately the same size on the shelf when we took one out to read because my dad was very disconcerted by the empty space.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: My Bookshelf
Books holding up a whole house. Gruffalo is IN the books but he also stands on his books. And this “Literaturnerin” (a portmanteau word made up of literature and gymnast) by Hans Scheib stands on books, in a sporting kind of way. Lens-Artist Challenge: Books
Six Word Saturday
If your bookshelves look like this: you start appreciating open bookshelves like this: making space at home for more book hoarding and sharing your hoarding passion with others (which is better than throwing your books away). Weekly Prompt Wednesday Challenge: Hoarding
I wanted “some light reading” in French for the holidays in France. I enjoyed browsing the library in Bourg-en-Bresse and I particularly enjoyed the personal notes pinned on the books by the staff. I ended up with a book, actually two books, and I managed to do some reading while in France.
When I read in English or German, I just read. When I read in French, I translate in my head. Not quite-so-light.
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but what about Peter Schöffer? He was born in Gernsheim, a town on the Rhine about 50km south of Mainz where Johannes Gutenberg, studied in Paris at the Sorbonne, worked as a scribe and calligrapher, and when he returned to Germany he started out as … Continue reading You’ve Heard of Gutenberg
“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”
Dr. Seuss
I always enjoyed children’s books. Not just Dr. Seuss but Erich Kästner, Maurice Sendak, Hans Fischer, Eric Carlé, and of course, Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler who wrote and illustrated The Gruffalo.
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