Comments on: the dear repose for limbs with travel tired http://theblondknitter.com/blog/2008/12/16/the-dear-repose-for-limbs-with-travel-tired/ Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:37:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jane Steen http://theblondknitter.com/blog/2008/12/16/the-dear-repose-for-limbs-with-travel-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-582 Jane Steen Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:51:12 +0000 http://theblondknitter.com/blog/?p=154#comment-582 This is what I like about you, Tonja - you quote Shakespeare and listen to Handel's Messiah. I was listening to a podcast (about books) the other day and learned the depressing fact that (in Britain at least) only 2% of the population reads regularly, and 90% of people do not read a book from one end of the year to another. I am beginning to feel more and more like a dinosaur! Yesterday at a family dinner I scored a book from my Amazon wishlist (a new biography of Florence Nightingale by Mark Bostridge, highly recommended by the Books & Culture newsletter) and was subjected to some teasing about actually wanting a book for Christmas. I can only console myself with the memory of watching Trinity grad students stagger around campus with piles of large and difficult looking books during Finals Week, but do they read for pleasure I wonder? Anyway, thanks for the sonnet; I'm not a big reader of Shakespeare's sonnets (I prefer Donne) so I didn't remember this one. I'll copy it into my journal for future reference. Merry Christmas!! This is what I like about you, Tonja – you quote Shakespeare and listen to Handel’s Messiah. I was listening to a podcast (about books) the other day and learned the depressing fact that (in Britain at least) only 2% of the population reads regularly, and 90% of people do not read a book from one end of the year to another. I am beginning to feel more and more like a dinosaur! Yesterday at a family dinner I scored a book from my Amazon wishlist (a new biography of Florence Nightingale by Mark Bostridge, highly recommended by the Books & Culture newsletter) and was subjected to some teasing about actually wanting a book for Christmas. I can only console myself with the memory of watching Trinity grad students stagger around campus with piles of large and difficult looking books during Finals Week, but do they read for pleasure I wonder?

Anyway, thanks for the sonnet; I’m not a big reader of Shakespeare’s sonnets (I prefer Donne) so I didn’t remember this one. I’ll copy it into my journal for future reference.

Merry Christmas!!

]]> By: Mom http://theblondknitter.com/blog/2008/12/16/the-dear-repose-for-limbs-with-travel-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-581 Mom Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:32:05 +0000 http://theblondknitter.com/blog/?p=154#comment-581 It is the sleep you need when you can finally take the time (without the usually attached guilt trip) to actually have a good sleep! Hooray! See you on Monday. It is the sleep you need when you can finally take the time (without the usually attached guilt trip) to actually have a good sleep! Hooray! See you on Monday.

]]> By: K1Frog2 http://theblondknitter.com/blog/2008/12/16/the-dear-repose-for-limbs-with-travel-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-578 K1Frog2 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:10:25 +0000 http://theblondknitter.com/blog/?p=154#comment-578 Is this the sleep of the end-of-the-semester-and-I'm-almost-done righteous? Good for you if it is! Is this the sleep of the end-of-the-semester-and-I’m-almost-done righteous? Good for you if it is!

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