Entries Tagged as 'Literature'

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

New Site Launched: bibliomancy.org

A few months ago I launched http://bibliomancy.org. It’s just a small site for generating bibliomancy readings (bibliomancy is the practice of letting a book fall open to a random passage as a way of seeking guidance on an issue).
I’m reasonably pleased with the way the site turned out, and I have a number of [...]

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Some Nice Arguments for Reading the Classics

Reading is under-appreciated this days, and reading the classics is even more so. I’m glad to see an intelligent post like the following one.
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/improve-your-mind-by-reading-the-classics/

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Book Review: “Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev

I finally finished reading “Fathers and Sons” after a few weeks of slowly progressing through this relatively small volume. It was a decent read, but not one that I found particularly memorable. Sometimes it’s difficult to appreciate the value that a book would have had at the time it was written relative to [...]