Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Idle Chit Chat

I have so many freaking reviews to write, but I can't seem to find the time to write them. I keep thinking 'I'll do it later - this time would be better spent reading'. Grr...

Maybe it's also because work has been busy lately, and work is where I write most of my reviews (shhh...) If I have time when my work deadline passes this afternoon I'll get onto them.

In the meantime, to keep all my thousands of readers entertained, there's a great blog on cover artwork for books over at Caustic Cover Critic.

There's one post in particular that caught my eye, and that was about...well, read it for yourself here. Very sad pics, especially the one of the abandoned/trashed library. I'm currently reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and have just gotten past a section on Nazi book-burning. What a crying shame to see all those books go to waste.

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings." - Almansor - Heinrich Heine

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." - Joseph Brodsky

5 comments:

white rabbit said...

I liked the absinthe tuff on this blog. Have you read any Zola? I had a phase years and years ago of reading pretty much all his novels one after another. the connection with blog is his novel 'L'Assomoir' which is about absinthe drinkers. Zola had a nonsensical typical 19th century theory that he was writing the 'scientific novel'. He wasn't but he wrote some seriously good stuff.

white rabbit said...

stuff not tuff...

always edit

;)

Kylie said...

I have Nana on my TBR pile but haven't read any other Zola before. The absinthe one sounds good. I'm a non-drinker but I must admit that absinthe has always fascinated me. I wouldn't turn it down if someone offered it to me!

I can't remember...is Nana part of a series of books? I have a feeling that's why I've been putting it off - because there may be others I need to read first?

white rabbit said...

It's called the Rougon Macquart series. I think Nana is part of it.

I guess you can read them in any old order.

Kylie said...

I'd like to read 'Germinal' as well. I've heard that's pretty good.