• Posts Tagged ‘reading’

    The Fighting Temeraire

    12 April, 2012 • 9 Comments

    His Majesty’s Dragon, the first book in the Temeraire series, opens with a British ship capturing a French one in 1805, and finding a dragon egg in its hold. This is not extraordinary – in the alternate history of this series, dragons have been domesticated in Europe since the Romans – but it is...

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    Mourning the Printed Page

    30 January, 2012 • 2 Comments

    A home without books is like a body without a soul.
    Cicero said that, with his customary artful understatement. Horace Mann apparently said that "A house without books is like a room without windows," but I think the points go to Cicero on this one.

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