Well, that meme from the other day struck a nerve with me. I know its just a meme but it made me realize I’m not reading enough popular books. I’m out of the loop. Out of the zeitgeist, or gestalt or – or – or something German. The fact is, I read like an old…

Branding and interface design specialists Information Architects present, surprisingly, seven reasons for re-reading your favorite books: Books are people Books are people speaking with signs. Meeting cool people several times is nice. Good books are friends Choose books like you choose your friends. Talk to many, stick with the best. A good book can make…

According to the description on the website of industrial design collective Elsewhere their Mazellaneous bookshelf “represents the confusion in our lives by the things we collect and own”. I just think it looks really cool. King Rat or Of Mice and Men would look appropriate here, and, of course, a history of Minos, wouldn’t be…

The Wikipedia entry on French poet Jean de La Fontaine mentions that most French schoolchildren learn his fables by heart at school. It fails to mention, however, the circumstances. A francophone friend of mine tells me that La Fontaine was the punishment for childhood infractions at school and at home. One would have to memorize…

Behold, in awesome majesty, via The Books of My Numberless Dreams, there did come forth, The Book List Meme…Thing: The bolded books are books I’ve read (and even enjoyed), stricken books I will probably never read, italicized books I would like to read, books with crosses are on my shelf and asterisked books I’ve never…