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“The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.”
— John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies
Sesame and Lilies
“Learn to read slow: all other graces
Will follow in their proper places.”
Will follow in their proper places.”
— William Walker
The Art of Reading
The Art of Reading
“Read me, do not let me die!
Search the fading letters, finding
Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I!”
Search the fading letters, finding
Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I!”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Poet and His Book, Stanza 6
The Poet and His Book, Stanza 6
By Guest Booklister
By Month
Want to be a Guest Booklister? Here’s How!
Send me an email saying you’d like to contribute a booklist!
Too simple?
Well, there are a couple other requirements: you have to be willing to submit a list of three to ten titles and authors. The books should be appropriate for a general audience: no porn, nothing flaunting arcane mathematical formulae, nothing needing a Ph.D. thesis to explain it, no wacko conspiracy-theory investigations proving that Karl Rove is the illegitimate offspring of Pol Pot and Marilyn Monroe. You have to be willing to exchange email with me, so I can clear up any fuzzy areas and you can give me feedback on the proposed webpage.
It helps if there’s a unifying theme to the booklist, but that’s not required.
It’s more fun for the reader if you provide personal comments explaining why you’re recommending a title, but you don’t have to.
It’s more interesting for my website’s guests if you provide one or two personal interests that I can build into the webpage beyond the bare booklist, but I won’t insist on it.
You don’t have to publish the booklist under your own name. You don’t have to have a website or blog of your own. You don’t have to know how to format a webpage, or post to a blog.