Katia Fox, the author of Der goldene Thron: Historischer Roman, will be reading from her book:

Thursday 27 January at  20:00

at the book store Hugendubel in Bad Homburg

Fee: euro 5

Proceeds will go towards Hilfe für Krebskranke Kinder Frankfurt e.V.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential…

- Sir William Osler -

The Quotable Osler from Amazon.com

The Searching Question

In 1916, at Columbia College, Professor Raymond Weaver gave his first class in English literature their first quiz. A whistle of joy went up from the group, which had been trying to make things hard for the new instructor, when Weaver wrote on the blackboard, “Which of the books read so far has interested you least?”

But then Weaver wrote the second and last question: “To what defect in yourself do you attribute this lack of interest?”

Note: Professor Weaver taught English at Columbia College from 1916–48.

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