The Somewhat Ambitious

Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code sold 88 million copies. I want you to roll that figure around in your head for a moment. 88 million. Yes, well done, you’re correct, that does indeed make The Da Vinci Code one of the highest selling books of all time. In fact, if you take out the [...]

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Both charming and reckless, this scheme by Spanish company Luzinterruptus grabbed my attention. The premise of the initiative was to make unhospitable corners of the Madrid cityscape appear cosy, and somewhere you’d be nuts enough to curl up and read a book:
“This intervention used light from lamps and books and was carried out during a [...]

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While we’re on the topic of Christians and their insatiable love for literature, here’s a heartwarming story about JoAn [sic] Karkos of Lewiston, Maine, a septugenarian and tireless defender of the civilised world’s moral fibre. Now I don’t like to fling around the phrase ‘political prisoner’ or ‘hero’ too freely, but JoAn [sic] may well [...]

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