Saturday, December 4, 2010

AFTER MY OWN HEART



A book club blog,
launched by Freddie de Boer.

The subject is Umberto Eco's 1980 novel In The Name Of The Rose.

Freddie is hoping to have participants start reading
on December 7th.

  
"Winter is a season for reading, for turning inwards, into interior warmth. I mean this in the simplest sense and less speakable ones as well. It's cold out, in winter, and to curl up with a book in the light of a fire in your own hearth is wonderful. Internally, too, it's often necessary to turn inward to artificial heat and light. And the best reading for those times, I think, is reading that is intricate and varied and rewarding and, yes, labyrinthine. The Name of the Rose is a book that you can retreat into, deep for a deep winter."



"Books are not made to be believed,
but to be subjected to inquiry."


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