“I told him absolutely, we’d have a lot of fun this summer.”Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”k.d. lang And then again: Have you seen my … Continue reading Relax, Relax, and Relax a bit more
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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Once you learn to read you will never be lonely
even if you are alone.
PS: He is wearing a red shirt.
Linked to One Word Sunday: Read.
… because. books.
Open bookcases where anyone can take or bring books are seen all over the place these days. Sometimes they are found in sturdy cupboards,
sometimes in display cabinets,
often they are built into old telephone boots.
There are always people perusing the shelves to see if some book whets their appetite.
And sometimes they leave already poring over the first pages of their new reading material.
Some readers need a proper place and other creature comforts before they settle down with a book.
Some people need company, even if it is inanimate.
A sculpture of a reading girl in front of a bookstore in Michelstadt,
and another one in front of the public library in Ladenburg.
And this is Peter Schöffer.
Who was he? You heard of Johannes Gutenberg who invented movable type printing. But he had help – hardly any great inventor can do without – and today we recognise that Peter Schöffer of Gernsheim was more than an assistant but a highly educated inventor in his own right who improved on Gutenberg’s design and was to a large extent responsible for the economic success of book printing and thus the spread of books to the masses.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: books and paper.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Books and Paper. More photos of these can be found here.
I loved this sculpture in front of the public library in Ladenburg since I first saw it. It’s a reference to reading itself – whatever kind of books you like.
And while we are in Ladenburg (a small town in the southwest of Germany) have a look at this medieval tower, I could happily see it standing in Ankh-Morpork, maybe the tower of the Unseen University before the vice-chancellors got eccentric and went for the Babylonian style of architecture (I am referring to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, of course).
This tower stands about 10 kilometres to the northeast in Weinheim. It’s part of the local castle and since I was little I noticed its turrets and bay windows and dormer windows – and imagined myself a Disney princess when I was there.
And can’t you see the reference to Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
The only cure for the cold winter blues: buy lots of books, head home, and open the first book!
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