📣 TODAY 📖  Thursday 11th June 📖 7pm ( doors open 6:45pm ) 📖  Harriet Baker in conversation with Stephen James 📖  Redland Library, Bristol 📖  Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only )

"Courage is found in unlikely places." — J. R. R. Tolkien

good night, friends illus. Quentin Blake

Booker Prize launches new quick read in effort to boost adult reading rates #BookchatWeekly #Reading #Literacy theguardian.com/books/2026/j…

“Chemists use test tubes and Bunsen burners; what do economists use?” fivebooks.com/best-books/his…

Many thanks to our Redland Library staff for this book display 📖  Thursday 11th June 📖 7pm ( doors open 6:45pm ) 📖  Harriet Baker in conversation with Stephen James 📖  Redland Library, Bristol 📖  Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only )

📣 Tomorrow 📖  Thursday 11th June 📖 7pm ( doors open 6:45pm ) 📖  Harriet Baker in conversation with Stephen James 📖  Redland Library, Bristol 📖  Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only )

A cartoon by Drew Dernavich. See all the cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fF…

Writers in #Bristol! 🖋️Hone your skills at the Bristol Fiction Writers' Group on Saturday 6th June at 2pm. We'll give each other feedback and do some writing. We're meeting at the Cafe at The New Room in Bristol city centre. It's free, just buy a hot drink to support the venue.

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” — Joseph Campbell

“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read…” — Werner Herzog

It's very lovely to see all the irises in bloom around Dublin 8 at the moment. These lovely hand-coloured ones are from a mid-16th century herbal.

"Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life." Ian Fleming, May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964.

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” — Leo Tolstoy

“The idea that concerns about death have a consequential influence on human affairs goes back to antiquity.” fivebooks.com/best-books/fea…

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” — Aldous Huxley

Marguerite Yourcenar disait un jour : « Je ne pense pas tant à la vieillesse. Je n’ai jamais cru que l’âge soit un critère valable. Il y a cinquante ans, je ne me sentais pas particulièrement jeune, et aujourd’hui, je ne me sens pas vieille. Mon âge change d’heure en heure. Dans les instants de fatigue, j’ai mille ans. Quand je travaille, j’en ai quarante. Et dans le jardin, aux côtés de mon chien, je me sens toute petite… j’ai quatre ans. L’âge n’est pas un chiffre. C’est un état de l’âme, un souffle qui varie à chaque battement de vie. »Marguerite Yourcenar disait un jour : « Je ne pense pas tant à la vieillesse. Je n’ai jamais cru que l’âge soit un critère valable. Il y a cinquante ans, je ne me sentais pas particulièrement jeune, et aujourd’hui, je ne me sens pas vieille. Mon âge change d’heure en heure. Dans les instants de fatigue, j’ai mille ans. Quand je travaille, j’en ai quarante. Et dans le jardin, aux côtés de mon chien, je me sens toute petite… j’ai quatre ans. L’âge n’est pas un chiffre. C’est un état de l’âme, un souffle qui varie à chaque battement de vie. »

"El secreto de mi felicidad está en no esforzarse por el placer, sino en encontrar el placer en el esfuerzo". André Gide

"If you're not failing, you're not pushing boundaries." Hear medicine laureate Elizabeth Blackburn speak about the valuable lessons we can learn from failure.

What if your life turned out to be ordinary? Slow down and relish this – it might even be enchanting Being unremarkable is often seen as a sign of moral failure – yet finding joy in the everyday can lead to a mindful, luminous experience theguardian.com/commentisfre…