Showing posts with label self-sufficiency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-sufficiency. Show all posts

Friday, 6 June 2025

Magic London in the Bookshop

Magic London by Netta Syrett

"Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England." - Bret Harte























 

Friday, 21 July 2023

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the Bookshop

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

"Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?" - Cornelia Funke