Lark Writes...on books and life

     "From (Lucy's) feet the ground sloped sharply into view, and violets ran down in rivulets and streams and cataracts, irrigati...

Before I buy a book, or even check one out of the library, I always flip it open first and read the opening sentence. I have to see if the a...

Edward Hopper - Compartment C, Car 193 (1938) "If you read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyo...

           "Someone was watching.           "...and with that certain knowledge came a knocking in his chest as if his heart had ...

"I'll bet you never thought the book world was so dangerous." The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett is the kind of s...

I have been a fan of Henry David Thoreau and his writing for a long time.   Walden  is one of those books I pull out and dip into often.  So...

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.  They are the destination and the journey."                 --Anna Quindlen ...