by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 12, 2009 | journeys, place, the day |
“Welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, Daniel.” “When a library disappears, or a bookshop closes down, when a book is consigned to oblivion, those of us who know this place, its guardians, make sure that it gets here. In this place, books no...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 27, 2008 | reading |
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind…” Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 21, 2008 | catching moments, reading |
At the end of The Hours, in the Acknowledgments, Michael Cunningham thanks Three Lives and Company for being in existence. He describes this bookstore as “…a sanctuary and, to me, the center of the universe. It has for some time been the most reliable...
