A House of Words: Visiting Villa Ocampo This month, I added another UNESCO World Heritage Site to the Reading Around the World Trail. I visited the UNESCO Villa Ocampo Observatory, in the town of Béccar, in Buenos Aires. Villa Ocampo was once the home of the writer, Victoria Ocampo, an Argentine writer, advocate, and intellectual…
Walk around San Telmo, the oldest neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and you will find art. Art dances on the street, a slow street tango; it lingers in bookstores, on paperbacks written by Jorge Luis Borges; it simmers in coffee cups of artistically designed café con leches, it sits on street corners in frames, canvases,…
One of my favorite things to do while on a solo reading retreat is to learn from a country. I love the charm and architecture of old cities. I enjoy browsing their bookstores and museums, and walking their cobblestone streets. There is something safe and serene about taking a walk through a place where time…
Sometimes you read a book and want to buy more copies of it. Sometimes you read a book and know that twenty years later, you will still be enthralled by it. You will remember it because it is not only a book of the present; it is a book of the present, past, and future….