Good Friday to you,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
This artist creates a magazine of her life each year.
Thoughts while watching a documentary about banned books during Banned Books Week.
“Over the past forty years, the shift from a world of “education” to one of “learning” and “literacy” has narrowed what it means to understand a text, whether that be Coleridge or a train timetable, and blurred the distinction between those two.” Notes on the value of reading in the midst of a Literary Crisis.
Isn’t it wholesome when a shared interest brings people together? -“Love in the Time of Dinosaurs“.
Finally, you can learn more about the image on today’s post here.
Currently (re)reading: The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
Have a great weekend.
Image: from “Madame B Album”. Madame B. Ca 1870.
Sourced from the Public Domain Image Archive / Art Institute Chicago
