Huzzah!
For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives.
-Amy Lowell, Boston Athenaeum
We are on our maiden post. For the love of books this page was created, and for the love of ideas, these words are penned.
Books; stories, poems, nursery rhymes, practical critcism, literary discourse, all these and more are just the few things associated with books. They have always been such a vital force in my life, and one of my first loves. Everyone reads, and it is without a shadow of doubt that I say that, be it the newspapers or a classic novel, the poem or the comic, the magazine or the play, life is reflected through any page that bears words. It is a love for life, not an obsession, but an admiration of its joys and jubilations or an interest in its twists and turns of irony or fatality--that leads us to read. Books read us too, and decide to relate to us on a level that we can function. Reading a fairytale when one is 5 says alot about good and evil and their ends, reading a fairytale at 25 could make you see the reality of the human condition reflected in these simplistic [or maybe not] works. Books grow with us, but more specifically the ideas they contain, which is why ideas will remain a vital element here. This collection of book reviews and ideas will take time to build up, and I believe that I too will grow and change in my opinions on certain elements of the things I read and the ideas I attain, but nonetheless, I know my love for books will remain. I close with a quote of Francis Bacon, that runs along the lines of how it is that porridge should be eaten hot, and ice cream eaten cold:
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives.
-Amy Lowell, Boston Athenaeum
We are on our maiden post. For the love of books this page was created, and for the love of ideas, these words are penned.
Books; stories, poems, nursery rhymes, practical critcism, literary discourse, all these and more are just the few things associated with books. They have always been such a vital force in my life, and one of my first loves. Everyone reads, and it is without a shadow of doubt that I say that, be it the newspapers or a classic novel, the poem or the comic, the magazine or the play, life is reflected through any page that bears words. It is a love for life, not an obsession, but an admiration of its joys and jubilations or an interest in its twists and turns of irony or fatality--that leads us to read. Books read us too, and decide to relate to us on a level that we can function. Reading a fairytale when one is 5 says alot about good and evil and their ends, reading a fairytale at 25 could make you see the reality of the human condition reflected in these simplistic [or maybe not] works. Books grow with us, but more specifically the ideas they contain, which is why ideas will remain a vital element here. This collection of book reviews and ideas will take time to build up, and I believe that I too will grow and change in my opinions on certain elements of the things I read and the ideas I attain, but nonetheless, I know my love for books will remain. I close with a quote of Francis Bacon, that runs along the lines of how it is that porridge should be eaten hot, and ice cream eaten cold:
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.
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