Books & Reading #120
Thought provoking quote from the American philosopher and teacher Gloria Jean Watkins better known by her pen name bell hooks. #bookstagram#readersofinstagram
Books & Reading #117
This comes from the American film maker David Frankel who is responsible for several great films including The Devil Wears Prada. #bookstagram#readersofinstagram
I am especially glad now in retrospect that I said yesterday on BBC that I rather agreed with the Pope on current world politics (delusions of omnipotence etc). Not always on papal side, but I am here!
So pleased to be at Waterstones, Piccadilly to hear Patrick Ness talking about his much heralded new book Piper at the Gates of Dusk which returns us to the world of his Chaos Walking trilogy. #patrickness#chaoswalking
So pleased to be at Waterstones, Piccadilly to hear Patrick Ness talking about his much heralded new book Piper at the Gates of Dusk which returns us to the world of his Chaos Walking trilogy. #patrickness#chaoswalking
Books & Reading #114
This quote from the pen of author George RR Martin the American writer and creator of amazing fantasy worlds and characters. #bookstagram#readersofinstagram
Excellent article about Mary Beard in Today's Sunday Times. I've been honoured to call her my friend since we met exactly 8 years ago, all thanks to Twitter as it was then. Few people are as eager to share knowledge, so generous with their time or so resilient through the fallout
Oh dear, when a world leader threatens to, or boasts of, bringing an enemy 'back to the Stone Ages where they belong', I feel that we are all drawn back a little towards the Stone Age (if that's not an insult to the Stone Age).
Books & Reading #112
This quote comes from Miguel de Unamuno the Spanish essayist, novelist, playwright, poet, philosopher and academic who lived from Sept 1864 to Dec 1936