I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.
Laurie Halse AndersonTag: books humorous boring-books
Of course I loved books more than people.
Diane SetterfieldTag: books
Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
Jasper FfordeBooks are the mirrors of the soul.
Virginia WoolfOften on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
Virginia WoolfWe live for books.
Umberto EcoTag: reading books book-lovers bibliophiles
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G.K. ChestertonTag: humor books mind wit attention
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
Nick HornbyTag: individuality books identity
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.
Cornelia FunkeTag: reading books feelings thoughts
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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