Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.
Jo WaltonTag: libraries
Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.
Jo WaltonTag: libraries civilization
And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it.
Jo WaltonTag: love sex tolkien lord-of-the-rings middle-earth the-lord-of-the-rings
I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
Jo WaltonTag: books characters
The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
Jo WaltonTag: reading books tolkien lord-of-the-rings middle-earth the-lord-of-the-rings
It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.
Jo WaltonTag: libraries
Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.
Jo WaltonI sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.
Jo WaltonTolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.
Jo WaltonThere's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.
Jo WaltonTag: nature appreciation sunset sunrise
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