“[Keep] alive the ministry of imagination…”

“I reach for a book like a doubter
and want it to flare round my hand”
- Seamus Heaney

Character day at school so in honor of finishing #thehobbit and starting #thefellowshipofthering with the boys, I am going as #bilbobaggins. Feeling “Tookish.” #lotr #tolkien #teaching #adventure #middleearth #dragons #worldissues

Reading #TheHobbit with my boys and we had this exchange tonight! #LOTR #myprecious

“The tyrant persecutes the artist by silencing him or by attempting to degrade or buy him.”
— Iris Murdoch

Finally found the used #bookstore in Brockville. What an oasis. Floor to ceiling, back to front books! Comics in one corner, crime in another, #CanLit out front and classics and kids’ books in back, smut to the west and #StephenKing taking up his own whole bookshelf by the cash! It was wonderful!