Tag: Montaigne

La Belle Sauvage #BookofDust #review and my #reading in October

Posted by | Published on October 29, 2017

“But the meaning of a book is never just what the author thinks it is. It’s a great mistake to rely on the author to […] 

Read More
Posted in Featured | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

How to live

Posted by | Published on December 10, 2011

‘Montaigne liked to present himself as an ordinary man, distinguished from others only by his habit of writing things down’. I am halfway through Montaigne’s essays  and […] 

Read More
Posted in Education, Featured | Tagged , , , | Leave a Comment

Random Posts

LOAD MORE

Orwell in Paris: War Correspondent*  →

Posted in Featured

Wearing the uniform of a British officer, George Orwell returned to Paris in February 1945 as a war correspondent for The Observer and Manchester Evening News. He had resigned as […] 

My #reading April 2016  →

Posted in Digital life, Featured

Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in a daze, wondering if the […] 

Review: Untitled (Past, Present, Future)  →

Posted in Popular culture, Professional development

Visiting the Stedelijk Museum with my family, after three rewarding but long days of getting value for money from our museum discount card, was one highlight of our time in […] 

#UtopiaforRealists #review and my #reading in May  →

Posted in Featured

Consider this: The word utopia means both “good place” and “no place.” What we need are alternative horizons that spark the imagination. And I do mean horizons in the plural; […] 

UA-6171563-2