November's Bookish Art...

Harold Knight -- The Reader

"She had no interest in people who could be summed up in a single sentence."
--Kim Fay, Map of Lost Memories

April's Bookish Art...

Fernand Toussaint -- Peaceful Reading

"...this young lady had been seated alone with a book. To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong."

--Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

September's bookish art...

William Mulready - Fireside Read

"Words, I've come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. 

Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. 

Without words, we are history's orphans."

--Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange

More Bookish Art...

James McNeil Whistler - Pink Note: The Novelette

"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you,

but the one which makes you think."

--Harper Lee

The Art of Reading...

Pietro Antonio Rotari - Girl with Book

"She felt a sudden desire for perilous adventures."

--W. Somerset Maugham, The Magician

Bookish Art for March

Johann Hamza - On the Terrace

"What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes?

Here is the key to your earthly pursuits."

--Carl Jung

February's Bookish Art

Maurice Denis - Les Muses, 1893

"Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts

which other men have prepared to help us navigate the

dangerous seas of human life."

--Jesse Lee Bennett

Bookish Art for January

Harry Brooker - The Treasure Volume

Look well to this day,

For it is life.

In its brief course lies all the realities of existence.

For yesterday is but a memory

and tomorrow only a vision.

--Sanskrit Poem

December's Bookish Art

Sir John Lavery - Miss Auras, The Red Book

Read. 

Read anything. 

Read the things they say are good for you, 

and they things they claim are junk. 

You'll find what you need to find.
Just read.

--Neil Gaiman

Bookish Art for November

Three Women Reading - Uemura Shoen

"If you have a good book to read you are never bored or alone."

--Sherry Young (columnist for the Deseret News)

October's Bookish Art

Arthur Hughes - The Compleat Angler

"...explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf.

Make a stab in the dark.

Read off the beaten path."

--Phyllis Rose, The Shelf  

Bookish Art for September

Henry Caro-Delvaille - Women Reading, 1910-1911

"I cannot imagine a day without reading in it."

Donalyn Miller, Reading in the Wild

Bookish Art for August

Marcel Duchamp - Apropos of Little Sister, 1911

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things 

which escape those who dream only by night."

--Edgar Allan Poe

(P. S. It's my 200th post today! When I started this blog I never thought I'd get this far. And I just want to thank everyone who visits, comments on, and reads my blog. You're the best!)

The Art of Reading...

Michael Ancher -- A Young Girl Reading, Maren Sofie Olsen, 1885

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself 

a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

--W. Somerset Maugham

The Art of Summer Reading

Alfred Victor Fournier - The Beach, 1929

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

--Bertrand Russell

Happy First Day of Summer!

Bookish Art for Mom...

William Sergeant Kendall --An Interlude, 1907

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."

--Emilie Buchwald

April's Bookish Art...

Carl Larsson - Woman on a Bench Reading

Tension is who you think you should be.

Relaxation is who you are.

--Chinese Proverb 

Bookish Renoir

Pierre Auguste Renoir - Girl Reading a Book

"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."

--Coco Chanel

March Art...

Sir John Everett Millais - The Northwest Passage, 1874

"Books and words were the saving grace in her life."

--Whitney Otto

February's Bookish Art...

C. Coles Phillips - Woman Reading Book in Window Nook, 1913

"The girl was very pretty, though she had red hair."

--Henry James

For a list of memorable love stories and some happily-ever-afters 

check out A Bookish Valentine.