Archive for October, 2008

The Little Prince

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
ISBN: 0156528207
I’ve been putting off writing this review for the longest time because, well — hasn’t everyone read this book by now? At least once? What else is there to say about it?
That it’s charming (really charming, without being at all smarmy)? That it will disarm cynical readers? Make you cry if [...]

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

by Richard Bach
I bought this book over twenty-five years ago in a second-hand shop. (Holy crap!) I spent the then, to me, significant amount of $5 on the hardcover mostly because I was captivated by the seagull photographs. Some were printed on translucent paper, and the play of light and the birds in flight was [...]