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bookgazing) wrote2009-03-20 10:31 am
bookgazing) wrote2009-03-20 10:31 am
Quotes, Covers and a Cool Link - Day 1
So today begins my week of quote posts. I collect quotes in my head all the time but I just don't have enough space in there for all of them and catchy music quotes tend to push out the literary ones. So I started a quotes journal and later a poetry journal where I could collect some of the words that were important to me. Every quote you'll see here this week resonates strongly with me in some way, this is probably one of the most personal weeks I'll have here at the blog. So deep breath and...sharing time.
I thought we'd start the week of quotes, covers and cool links with a quote on the possible nature of books taken from a novel that's part of my permenant collection 'Goould's Book of Fish' by Richard Flanagan:
'My Hung says that a book at its begining may be a new way of understanding life - an original universe - but it is soon enough no more than a mere footnote in the history of writing, overpraised by the syncophantic, despised by the contemporary, and read by neither. Their fate is hard, their destiny absurd. If readers ignore them they die, and if granted the thumbs-up of posterity they are destined forever to be misconstrued, their authors transformed first into gods and then, inevitably, unless they are Victor Hugo, into devils.'
I thought we'd start the week of quotes, covers and cool links with a quote on the possible nature of books taken from a novel that's part of my permenant collection 'Goould's Book of Fish' by Richard Flanagan:
'My Hung says that a book at its begining may be a new way of understanding life - an original universe - but it is soon enough no more than a mere footnote in the history of writing, overpraised by the syncophantic, despised by the contemporary, and read by neither. Their fate is hard, their destiny absurd. If readers ignore them they die, and if granted the thumbs-up of posterity they are destined forever to be misconstrued, their authors transformed first into gods and then, inevitably, unless they are Victor Hugo, into devils.'
This gorgeous steampunk cover is from 'The Affinity Bridge' by George Mann. The spine is glittery and I love my copy of this book! Such a cool story as well, a piece of sci-fi set in a Victorian London plagued by killer robots and a scary new disease.
Today you should check out Guys Lit Wire, a site filled with reviewers passionate about finding books teenage guys will really enjoy. If you're trying to get your kids to engage with books send them here now, then sneak off to the site later and buy up some of the cool novels recommended. They're for the kids...