Dec 12 2025
Born on December 12, 1821, Gustave Flaubert became one of the great craftsmen of the nineteenth-century novel. He published relatively few books, wrote with agonizing slowness, and could spend enormous amounts of time struggling over a single passage. Yet that relentless attention to language helped transform modern fiction. Flaubert is most closely associated with Madame …
Sep 21 2021
It has been a while since I first wrote about encouraging reading in your infant and I thought it was about time that I get back to this series in case there were some of you waiting for me to get on with it. As I mentioned in the previous post, I am a big fan of …
Jun 04 2021
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am a reading fan. I actually think that it is much worse than that and I am actually a book addict. I love the smell of books, old and new, the crackling sound as you open the book for the first time, the neatly lined shelves. And this …
May 10 2021
I am a big fan of reading, huge, gigantic, enormous. I can add many adjectives to just how big of a fan I am but I think I may have already got my point across and one look at the boxes of books that I don’t have room for will confirm it. For this reason, …
