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French Impressionist Painter Claude Monet born #OnThisDay in 1840*
Claude Monet Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir*
'Reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop.'
--Ray Bradbury / Happy day, readers!*
'I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.'
-Robert Louis Stevenson born #OnThisDay 1850*
'Always be a poet, even in prose.' #Baudelaire*
·Les Fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire, (1857-58)*
"A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.." -Charles Baudelaire*
·Girl with a book by Edouard Manet, 1875*
"After God Shakespeare has created most." -James Joyce, Ulysses*
-Death Mask of James Joyce & William Shakespeare*
'A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life' JRR Tolkien*
-Make time to read / Happy day, readers!
“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” ―Sylvia Plath*
Autumn Rain by Edvard Munch - 1892*
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is published #onthisday 1892
There is no enjoyment like reading.. Jane Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published #onthisday 1811*