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Gutenberg’s Apprentice, A Novel by Alix Christie – On The Road Book Club
March 12, 1455, was a milestone day for Johannes Gutenberg and his world-altering invention of the printing press, a mechanical way of making books. Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg made after his death. (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) A Page from the Gutenberg Bible (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) March 12, 1455, marks a…
A New Chapter for On The Road Book Club – On The Road Book Club
A New Chapter for OnTheRoad Book Club OnTheRoad Book Club embarked on its literary journey on January 5, 2011 with the poignant words, “We are on the road for most of our life…” Today marks an exciting new chapter for OnTheRoad Book Club as it bids farewell to its previous location and welcomes book enthusiasts…
Gutenberg’s Apprentice, A Novel by Alix Christie – On The Road Book Club
March 12, 1455, was a milestone day for Johannes Gutenberg and his world-altering invention of the printing press, a mechanical way of making books. Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg made after his death. (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) A Page from the Gutenberg Bible (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) March 12, 1455, marks a…
Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe – On The Road Book Club
Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the…
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with William Butler Yeats – On The Road Book Club
Happy St Patrick’s Day! This day in 432 is the traditional date when Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland. He escaped after six years and returned to Britain, where he studied Christianity and was ordained a priest. He…
Milestones: Alfred, Lord Tennyson & Dante Gabriel Rossetti – On The Road Book Club
A Gathering of Friends September 27, 1855, Alfred Tennyson read from his new book Maud and Other Poems at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was one of the guests. As Alfred Tennyson read from his collection, Dante Rossetti was inspired to make a sketch…
Milestones: Emily Dickinson – On The Road Book Club
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Emily Dickinson On August 10, 1847, Emily Dickinson graduated from Amherst Academy, where she studied English and classical literature, Latin, botany, geology, history, “mental philosophy,” and arithmetic. The study of "mental…
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle – On The Road Book Club
Any story that begins with "it was a dark and stormy night" promises to be a page-turner! Today on November 29, 1918, Madeleine L’Engle was born. I first met her the day I picked up her book, "A Wrinkle in Time." I was eight years old. This book changed the way I viewed our planet…