Thursday 22 September 2011

George Eliot Quote Part II

While I was looking through different famous quotes about reading I didn't really come across many quotes that I really liked or that spoke to me, until I found this one by George Eliot. I liked this quote because I found that it was unique and I agreed with what it was saying. Instead of just being another quote about how wondrous reading is and how life is pointless without books (the latter is taking it a bit too far) this quote really made sense to me. People always talk about how you get something different out of books or stories after time passes and I think George Eliot was able to translate that idea very effectively into her quote. Maybe in the future I'll go back and read books that I've read in my childhood and I'll find something different in them. I wonder how I'll feel about The Catcher in the Rye in thirty years, especially if I am a parent?

See you in my next post!

George Eliot Quote

"No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters." George Eliot 

Sunday 18 September 2011

Welcome to Book Bits and Bytes!

This is the very first post of my new blog. In future posts I will be talking about and reviewing different books that I've been reading. Currently I am reading the book, Swim the Fly by Don Calame. I'm roughly half way through the book and will likely post a complete review of it when I'm done, but I will post other things about it in the meantime. See you in future posts!