Belle, Book, and Candle

Things have slowed down a bit here in BelleBookandCandle land. I have just barely started two books, both by authors I have not read befo...

The personal essays in The Little Virtues are very serious. But then I guess that is to be expected as the author is a woman who lived i...

I don't know why I have not written about Annie Dillard before. She is one of my favorite authors. As I look at my bookshelf, ...

I am on a roll with reading about travel in Italy. Next up: Italy, A Love Story (2005)   edited by Camille Cusumano. In the book'...

Montaigne's tower library where he worked on his essais. How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at ...

Rose Macaulay 1881-1958 As I am always on the lookout for essays about the everyday,  I thought I would love this book of thoughts on ev...

Charles Lamb aka Elia 1775-1834 Anne Fadiman bemoans the fact that reading the essays of Charles Lamb, aka Elia, has gone out of fashi...

I love reading essays from the past. The comments on that time's current culture and conundrums prove that there is nothing new unde...