"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested: that is some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention"
Of Studies Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
The painting: Young Woman with a Book,1934, by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deineka
See also A Search on the experience of reading Russian writers of the 19th century, and a review of Growing out of Trouble by Monty Don
Reflections on the book by Yuval Noah Harari
2016-06-07 19:30:23Good writing
2016-01-05 17:46:19A reader's experience
2015-07-07 17:15:44The effects of walking on the psyche.
2015-02-03 21:30:19A book review
2014-12-12 20:52:29A moving autobiographical trilogy
2014-06-17 22:48:26Exciting non-fiction
2013-11-20 16:47:30Selected quotations
2013-10-10 20:22:41