Books Across Time
Browsing around Amazon, I came across a book review on Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian", going back to ancient Roman days, and I thought it was moving enough to keep an excerpt.
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I tried to read this book in my 20's; the book fell from my hands. I tried again at 40. The book didn't exactly fall from my hands, but my eyelids kept closing. Now I am 70. The book is so close to my heart that I can barely put it down. I am healthy and not (I hope) near death, but in this reflection on life from a man nearing death, life and its joys and sadnesses stand out more vividly than in any other book I have ever read.
-- Johann Sebastian Fu, Amazon reviewer
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I tried to read this book in my 20's; the book fell from my hands. I tried again at 40. The book didn't exactly fall from my hands, but my eyelids kept closing. Now I am 70. The book is so close to my heart that I can barely put it down. I am healthy and not (I hope) near death, but in this reflection on life from a man nearing death, life and its joys and sadnesses stand out more vividly than in any other book I have ever read.
-- Johann Sebastian Fu, Amazon reviewer
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