Ned Hayes's Blog, page 47
April 23, 2015
Books are the best weapons in the world! #DrWho #TheDoctor...
Books are the best weapons in the world! #DrWho #TheDoctor #Books
April 22, 2015
BOOK QUOTE: “Cold tears as salty as ocean spray wet my...
BOOK QUOTE:
“Cold tears as salty as ocean spray wet my face. I remember the day before she died, my mother took me out in our little fishing boat, out on the open water of the sea—the thrum and hiss of surf upon the shore behind us, the rhythm never ceasing. And she taught me something: strange and secret words in a foreign tongue, a lilting singsong cadence to it.”
PHOTO: harryschuler: Barcelona, 10|2014 © Harry Schuler
April 21, 2015
“Terrible as the lightning he descended, and snatched me upward...
“Terrible as the lightning he descended, and snatched me upward even to the fire.”
Dante Alighieri in La Divina Comedia, Purgatorio IX, lines 29-30
Illustration by Gustave Doré
April 20, 2015
April 19, 2015
BOOK QUOTE: “On most nights under the winter moon, when we...
BOOK QUOTE:
“On most nights under the winter moon, when we have made our camp, around us echo faint sounds of that other hidden world – the one of meadow and forest in the night. The melody of whippoorwill, the cry of hunting owl, the scurrying rush of vole and chasing fox. This night, the land is empty. The silence is deep in stark and open heath, the woods carry no sound.”
— from the novel SINFUL FOLK
April 18, 2015
BOOK QUOTE: “Stars steam away as a pale sun rises, hot...
BOOK QUOTE:
“Stars steam away as a pale sun rises, hot coal dropped in a watery sky. Light seeps across the forest as the reedy shrieks of wood fowl echo in the trees. The path from our village to the King’s Highway is a crooked line of mud rutted with cart tracks, a rough trough where the dirty snow is stabbed through by the hooves of feral sheep. To the east, that faint track leads up through the forest until it reaches, finally, the open country.” — from the novel SINFUL FOLK
April 17, 2015
April 16, 2015
BOOK QUOTE:“Stars steam away as a pale sun rises, hot coal...
BOOK QUOTE:
“Stars steam away as a pale sun rises, hot coal dropped in a watery sky. Light seeps across the forest as the reedy shrieks of wood fowl echo in the trees. The path from our village to the King’s Highway is no road at all. To the east, that faint track leads up through the forest until it reaches, finally, the open country and paths that lead to other places. Hob is taking us beyond the bounds of the known world.” — from the novel SINFUL FOLK
PHOTO: elenamorelli: { the quiet beauty of a misty forest }
April 15, 2015
tilly-and-her-books:
I finally moved all my books of the seats...
I finally moved all my books of the seats and put them back on the shelves…They look a mess but it’s better than the floor.
April 14, 2015
Live the bookish life with Lemony Snicket.
Live the bookish life with Lemony Snicket.
