#wonderousWednesday
“It is involved in the very essence of things that rich men who die old shall have been mean.”
I love it!😁
Eggs Perfect 🤩 📚🤗 1y
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Way of All Flesh | 
#wonderousWednesday
“It is involved in the very essence of things that rich men who die old shall have been mean.”
I love it!😁
"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."
(Samuel Butler, inveterate bachelor (read: closeted and repressed in the Victorian era) instinctively disliked the women his male friends got attached to before he had even met them.)
#InQuotes #Marriage
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Sticker removal with blow dryer . Took this sticker off with 16 to 20 second blasts from a hair dryer,peeling slowly & gently.This is an older book , the sticker did leave a little residue, usually this can be removed by gently rubbing with art gum eraser or dab it with blank ,white paper. @Branwen
so-soThis one was a great big “meh” for me. It‘s the story of Ernest Pontifex, who emerges from a childhood of startling abuse to become a pastor and then gets imprisoned due to a misunderstanding. It‘s an attack on Victorian hypocrisy but like.. you better know your Victorian hypocrisy REALLY well to catch the attack part. I hate to say it, but I‘m not sure this is all that relevant to a modern reader. #modernlibrarytop100
Had to stop reading only three pages from the end last night because I just couldn‘t keep my eyes open any longer. Will be finishing after work tonight.
I haven‘t had as much reading time as usual on the past few weekends because I‘ve been engaged in a big organizing project (as is evident in the background of this photo). Because of this I feel like I‘ve been reading both of these books for about a hundred years. Hope to make some progress this afternoon (on the books and the organizing)!
...He did not say smart things himself and did not want other people to say them. Besides they talked about music, and he hated music, or pictures, and he hated pictures, or books, and except the classics he hated books; and then sometimes he was wanted to dance with them, and he did not know how to dance, and did not want to know.
(The fact that I can relate to this attitude may have something to do with the fact that I‘m still a spinster.)
#QuotsyMar19 #solo Don‘t know if the quote is in this book but ,hey, I‘m always learning.😀🎻
We went looking for egg cups and found books instead. 🤷🏻♀️ #bookhaul
pickI rather dreaded starting this book, but then liked it right from page 1. It is the story of Ernest, a boy growing up in the Victorian time in a very religious family. Mentally abused by his parents, he struggles his way through life. The book is sad, amusing, satiric and much more. Butler's view and language make this book kind of ageless: written and situated in the 19th century, I can easily connect to it 2 centuries later.
#1001books
GBS on Butler- because he wanted to carry on Butler's "work of demonstrating the falsehood and imposter of our 'secondary education' and the mischief of treating children as wild beasts to be tamed and broken instead of as human beings to be let develop.
Reading this book and can't help but think of the lyrics from the musical "She Loves Me" - makes me giggle.
Then all of a sudden, he said that I
couldn't go wrong with "The Way of all Flesh."
Of course it's a novel, but I didn't know,
or I certainly wouldn't have smacked him!
$4 worth of finds from the library book store @Born.A.Reader. And Archer lol
