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Quote of the Day

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
-Jane Austen

Literary Pick (*****)

Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

Splendid Willow



House & Wedding

Discover Interior Design

Literary Pick (**)

A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)

Hemingway is very straight-out and to the point in his writing style. He does not emotionally embellish at all. I felt the novel was misleading and slightly more about the war than about the romance between "an English Nurse and a Lieutenant". It was a very easy and comfortable read, but also very boring. The romance between the two seemed chanced and meaningless. I felt no sentimentality about the ending.

..I loved Rinaldi.

"How are you baby? how do you feel? I bring you this-" It was a bottle cognac. The orderly brought a chair and he sat down, "and good news. You will be decorated. They want to get you the medaglia d'argento but perhaps they can get only the bronze".
"what for?"
"because you are gravely wounded. They say if you can prove you did any heroic act you can get the silver. Otherwise it will be the bronze. Tell me exactly what happened. Did you do any heroic act?"
"No", I said."I was blown up while we were eating cheese".

Art of the Day

A Virgin (Abbott Handerson Thayer)

Quote of the Day

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." -Vincent Van Gogh

Cultural News

PARIS—Novelist Umberto Eco has been named the Louvre’s latest guest curator, following in the footsteps of artist Anselm Kiefer, writer Toni Morrison, and composer Pierre Boulez. Eco will put together a series of arts events revolving around his chosen theme, “the list.” A performance art piece referencing the use of lists in major literary works by writers like Homer and James Joyce is on the agenda, as is a conference exploring the way the subjects in the work of Peter Bruegel the Elder can be seen as a kind of visual list.

Caisa K.

Style Frog





Man Make Home





Living Art & Interiors

30 Elm







Swiss Miss



Quipsologies

Literary Pick (****)

The Trial (Franz Kafka)

Quote of the Day

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson

Art of the Day

Teenage Couple on Hudson Street NYC (Diane Arbus)

Ink + Wit

Literary Pick (***)

Crime and Punishment (Feodor Dostoevsky)