July's bookish art...

 

Augustus John -- A woman reading

"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."

--Louis L'Amour

June's Bookish Art...

 

Joseph Farquharson -- Summertime

"There's no better escape from life than into a book."

--Heather Webber, South of the Buttonwood Tree

May's Bookish Art...

 

Osman Hamdi Bey -- Young Woman Reading

Books provided a secret door to escape through....Another world she could step into and be surrounded by characters brought to life on the page. She could meet untold people and live a thousand exciting lives through the pages. It was her solace..."

--Bella Osborne, The Library

April's Bookish Art...

 

Edwin Harris -- A Quiet Moment

"Throughout her life, books had always been welcome companions, offering wisdom, inspiration, and a wondrous sense of adventure as one journeyed to the world of imagination."

--Andrea Penrose, Murder at Somerset House

March's Bookish Art...

 

Ulisse Caputo -- Leisure Hours

"There's no better escape from life than into a book."

--Heather Webber, South of the Buttonwood Tree

February's bookish art...

 

Claude Buck -- Woman Reading

"I think books are like people in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them."

--Emma Thompson

January's Bookish Art...

 

Henri Matisse -- Woman Reading in Garden, 1902

"Stories take us out of ourselves and deeper into ourselves at the exact same time. They are specific and universal. Big and small. Something and everything."

-- Katherine Center

December's Bookish Art....

 

Vittore Carpaccio -- The Virgin Reading

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

--F. Scott Fitzgerald

November's Bookish Art....

 

William Oliver the Younger
Portrait of a Lady Reading a Book

"I think books are like people in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them."

--Emma Thompson

October's bookish art...

 

Jacques-Emile Blanche -- Woman Reading, 1890

"I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink in to it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be."

--Elizabeth Scott

September's Bookish Art...

 

James Tissot -- Woman Reading By the Harbor 

"There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read--unless it be reading while you eat."

--E. Nesbit

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