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painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot I love books and reading… and I love collecting quotes. On a lazy Saturday morning where all you want to do is to sit down with a cup of coffee and read, some...
View ArticlePoetry Review: The Dyer’s Hand by W.H. Auden
This is the seventh book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” Reviews of books in this series can be found at “Poets on Poetry.” More than any poet, I associate Auden with mountains because that is...
View ArticleIn praise of a good place to read
Ghost Room (copyright © m.a.h. hinton) For the past couple of months, I have felt like a wandering Aramean. A complicated series of furniture misadventures with more plot twists than a Robert Ludlum...
View ArticleOn winter, reading, and Dickens
Each winter I read, or re-read, a Dickens novel. My choice this year is Nicholas Nickleby… which I downloaded, for free, to my kindle. I have a “hard-copy” volume as well – maybe even two copies – but...
View Article300 Posts, 300 Books I Am Glad I’ve Read
Today’s posting marks the 300th post on MontanaWriter, a nice round number. Round numbers are hard to resist. There is a something complete and satisfying in their shape… in what they symbolize: the...
View ArticleInteresting articles
Here are three recent articles you may or may not have missed. Yeats manuscript page for 'Sailing to Byzantium' The False Novelty of Making Reading ‘Social’, by Alan Jacobs In this Atlantic article,...
View ArticleOn wanderlust and intellectual chain-smoking
The month of May has transitioned into the early days of June and I have not posted for awhile. I spent the last weeks of May otherwise engaged, aka. studying for exams. Now that the exams are done...
View ArticleOn reading and pleasure
One of the unexpected side-benefits of the lighter posting schedule I have had to keep for the last month is that the amount of spam comments MontanaWriter receives has dropped considerably. I remain...
View ArticlePoem: “The Reading Life” by Mark Hinton
“The Reading Life” Poets write about what is nearest their hearts and bones. Those who have followed this blog for any length of time knew that a poem about reading and enjoyment was inevitable....
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