by Lisa Azarmi | Mar 18, 2022 | BOOKS, READING
“Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.”Ben Okri Tavik Frantisek Simon – Vilma Reading on a Sofa, 1912.
by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 28, 2022 | CLASSIC LITERATURE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, READING
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own, 1929. Harold Knight – The Green Book.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 28, 2021 | BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, PORTRAITS, READING
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long...
