May 2012
21 posts
Finished reading Around the World in Eighty Days... →
A wonderful book!
Readmill Blog: Readmill NYC Meetup! →
readmill:
Living in NYC? Using Readmill and loving in? Well, you’re in for a treat. We’re travelling to The Big Apple… and we want to meet you! On Thursday June 7th, at 19:00, we will be hosting our very first Readmill meetup at Swift Bar (that’s on 34E 4th street, to be precise). Check it out:
“The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a...”
– Highlighted by Christof Dorner in Here is New York by E.B. White
“It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on...”
– Highlighted by Christof Dorner in Here is New York by E.B. White
“The book is dead; long live the book!”
– Highlighted by Christof Dorner in Lean Publishing by Peter Armstrong
“Every boy,” he said, “has a little sweetheart.”
– Highlighted by Christof Dorner in Dubliners by James Joyce
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Finished reading The Call of the Wild by Jack... →
I really like how it shows the transformation in Bucks’ personality, first from a domestic dog to being mistreated as a working dog, to being unconditionally loved by humans and other dogs, and at the end to being a wild animal.
Finished reading Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer →
Did watch the movie first and liked it a lot. But the book is a million times better, one of the better books I’ve read so far.
“Every Programmer Is a Designer”
– Highlighted by Christof Dorner in Code Simplicity by Max Kanat-Alexander
“And he was big-time hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry. But real happy.”
– Highlighted by Christof Dorner in Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
