Ellie Jones’s Reviews > Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life > Status Update
Ellie Jones
is on page 92 of 185
“On a Saturday afternoon in winter, when nose and fingers might be pinched enough to give an added relish to the anticipation of tea and fireside, and the whole weekend’s reading lay ahead, I suppose I reached as much happiness as is ever to be reached on earth. And especially if there were some new, long-coveted book awaiting me.”
— Oct 21, 2026 09:52AM
Like flag
Ellie’s Previous Updates
Ellie Jones
is on page 40 of 185
"(It is important to acquire early in life the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. I first read Tamburlaine while traveling from Larne to Belfast in a thunderstorm, and first read Browning's Parcelsus by a candle which went out and had to be relit whenever a big battery fired in a pit below me, which I think it did every four minutes all that night.)"
— Oct 17, 2026 09:19AM