From Joe Queenan’s One For The Books: “I love to pull my books down off the shelf and read striking passages to baffled dimwits who have turned up at my house.” And: “”Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.”
Tag: Books
Belated…
Mini-reviews of new books by Friends- of- Q- Blog, with apologies for now- constant tardiness. Moro Rogers first published book is a graphic novel, City in the Desert . Moro may be trained as an animator, but she has a subtle mind and a deadly sense of humor, and, as one reviewer notes, there is …
Passenger Pigeons Again…
Another little sample from my evolving proposal: P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } After the Ice … I will draw on contemporary scholarship from Pielou to Paul Martin to paint a picture of the late glacial world – one with little place for the passenger pigeon as a major ecological actor. One keystone will be Australian …
Quote
“… as soon as I went in the door I immediately recalled how great an experience a good bookstore was, to which the browsing we do on computers is as phone sex compared to sex.”– Michael Gruber
Rungius Letter!
Serendipity: not only did I pick up several interesting books at Nick Potter’s in Santa Fe; in my “new” copy of the uncommon 1948 Knopf Borzoi sporting book, Russell Annabel’s Hunting and Fishing in Alaska (which I have been looking for for years) I found a letter by the greatest painter of American (or any?) …
Passenger Pigeons # 1
Trying something new here. I have either three or four new possible books on deck, though how I will find energy to do them all is a… challenge. One is natural history and ornithology, one a novel, long set -aside, and I am not sure I want to say more about either it or the …
Quotes on Boooks and Writing
From Larry McMurtry: “The reader might well ask why this account of the expanding and contracting of my various libraries matters at all. “I could give several answers to the question but the simplest one is that you write what you’ve read, to a large degree– and, just as importantly, you write what you will …
KIngdonia, old and New
Jonathan Kingdon’s magnum opus is coming. Here are a few images of JK and his past work:
Dan Baum sticks to his guns…
… in this excellent interview in Atlantic (pun absolutely intended). Maybe they thought he would back down; because of the current climate, because– I don’t know, he hadn’t spent many years coming to his conclusions? No fear: “I’m no less a Democrat than I was, but I am more attuned to the gun guy complaint …
Gun Guys
I usually don’t review books that I blurb– but if you have any strong views on guns, on either side, take a look at Dan Baum’s Gun Guys . There are several reasons to (on top of its being a fine piece of reporting and a good read): first, genuinely pro- gun books by unabashed …