August's bookish art...

 

Rupert Bunny -- Woman Reading

"Books are good company, in sad times and happy times..."

--E.B. White

July's Bookish Art...

 

Max Beckmann -- Woman Reading at the Beach

    "Stories go deep. They have this power to resonate for us like nothing else in human life can. They teach us things we need to learn, and show us new ways of understanding, and answer questions we didn't even know we needed to ask." 

--Katherine Center

June's bookish art...

 

"Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,

Are a substantial world, both pure and good."

--William Wordsworth

May's Bookish Art...

 

Charles Edward Perugini -- In the Orangery

"Literature is my Utopia."

--Helen Keller

April's Bookish Art...

 

Hugues Merle -- La Contemplation

"It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others--even my nearest and dearest--there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book." 

--Maureen Corrigan

March's Bookish Art...

 

Charles Edward Perugini -- Girl Reading

"Books are such an underrated essential. Every book is a key that unlocks another world, leads us down the path of a different life and offers the chance to explore an unexpected adventure. Every one is a gift of either knowledge, entertainment or pure escapism."

--Bella Osborne, The Library

February's Bookish Art...

 

Thomas P. Anshutz -- Woman reading at a desk

"Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading." 

--Lena Dunham

January's Bookish Art...

 

"...what we read is what we are,

or what we are becoming."

--Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ruined by Reading 

P.S. I'm still having trouble commenting on Wordpress blogs. So, if you haven't seen any comments from me yet this month and I normally do comment on all of your posts...check your spam box. I think that's where my comments have landed. Don't you just love technology gone wrong? 

December's bookish art...

 

“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

 

“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
― Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic

November's bookish art...

 

William Worchester Churchill - Woman Reading on a Settee

"Life is like a book: some chapters are sad, some happy, and some exciting. But if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds." 

--Anonymous

October's Bookish Art...

 

Rose Mead -- Molly Reading, 1920

"...we gravitate toward the stories we need in life. Whatever we are longing for--adventure, excitement, emotion, connection--we turn to stories that help us find it. Whatever questions we're struggling with--sometimes questions so deep, we don't even really know we're asking them--we look for answers in stories."          --Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

 

September's bookish art...

 

Georges D'espagnat -- Woman Reading

"Do not set out to live a well-read life but rather your well-read life. No one can be well-read using someone else's reading list. Unless a book is good for you, you won't connect with it and gain from it. Just as no one can tell you how to lead your life, no one can tell you what to read for your life."

 --Steve Leveen, The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life    

August's Bookish Art...

 

Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin -- Madame Guillaumin Reading 

"You are never alone when you have a good book."

Freya Sampson, The Last Chance Library

July's bookish art...

 

Georges D'espagnat -- In the Garden

"If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book."

--J.K. Rowling.

June's Bookish Art...

 

Frederick Carl Frieseke -- Summer Reading, 1902

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

--Bertrand Russell

May's Bookish Art...

 

Yumeji Takehisa -- Woman Reading

"Lose yourself in books, in art, in the haze of new horizons. Lose yourself in curiosity, in knowledge, in passion. Lose yourself in feeling it all..."

--Bianca Sparacino

April's Bookish Art...

 

Edouard Gelhay - Elegant Women in a Library

"Always be reading. 

Go to the library.

There's magic in being surrounded by books."

--Austin Kleon

March's bookish art...

 

Hermann Jean Joseph Richir--Young Woman Reading

"You know you've read a good book when you turn to the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."

--Paul Sweeney

February's bookish art...

 

Maurice Louis Tete -- Woman reading in an interior

"I believe that 'finding the book you're looking for' is an overrated notion. Far better to explore, and let the book you need be the one which finds you."

--Craig Shaefer

January's bookish art...

 

The Bookworm, 1920
Mary Evans Picture Library

"I guess there are never enough books."

--John Steinbeck