Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Monday, February 26, 2018

“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”~Hugh Laurie

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ~John Locke

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” ~ Anaïs Nin

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” ~Alfred Tennyson

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”~William Blake

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” ~Carl R. Rogers

Sunday, February 25, 2018

In 2017, I resolved to stop rereading books. In this endeavor, I have been successful. Graphic books have become a fixation. Mimi Pond, Gabrielle Pond, Vanessa Davis, and Lynda Barry have provided much satisfaction in the past year. I previously thought that graphic books were limited to male superheroes. So much delight to discover that women write about their lives or whatever fills their imaginations. Here lists a portion of the books I have enjoyed since 2017 in the graphic genre:

The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell ( just finished today)
Good Riddance: an Illustrated Memoir about Divorce by Cynthia Copeland
The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond
Over Easy by Mimi Pond
Going into Town: a Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast
Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
Soppy by Philippa Rice
The Impostor's Daughter: a true memoir by Laurie Sandell
Good Eggs by Phoebe Potts
The Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner

I hope that you benefit from them as well.