Media 1
R eading a handwritten article about handwriting, in a 21st-century magazine, is like listening to your great-great-grandfather shout in the middle of a crowded multiplex about the incomparable glories of vaudeville and the lost art of wearing hats in public.
Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting -- New York Magazine Book Review
Book Examiner: The top 20 most annoying book reviewer cliches and how to use them all in one meaningless review
In 1984 , George Orwell created newspeak, a language "whose vocabulary gets smaller every year."
And now, something from our sponsor...
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. - William Burroughs
Found in Books
People have found teeth, money, and bacon inside their books. Be careful what you use as a bookmark.
Ever wondered which post of mine is the all-time most popular post? Yeah, me neither. But over time as I checked out my stats, it didn't take very long for me to figure it out, whether I wanted to or not.
BookLust: Punctuation is Sexy, Too
Terry Pratchett (1994) There's a feeling that I think it's only possible to get when you're a child and discover books. It's a kind of fizz.
When the Children Read Fantasy - Terry Pratchett
Literature Pick of the Week: Hansel and Grethel - The Grimm Brothers Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children.
Paper Portitude - The Library of Classic Literature
- Daniyel Bombergo - Teshuvot she\’ilot / le-rabenu Mosheh bar Nahman.. - 1519 - Vinitsiya - Stanford Library