January 2012
3 posts
“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is...”
– Augustine Birrell
“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page...”
– Carol Shields
December 2011
3 posts
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Murakami
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
– Carl Sagan
November 2011
4 posts
“She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a...”
– Dean Koontz
“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street...”
– Jane Smiley
“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its...”
– Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
October 2011
5 posts
Lost words
eternitarian - one who believes in the eternity of the soul.
abilguirition - excesive spending on food and drink.
cheiloprolictic - being attracted to a persons lips.
colopsinquanonina - estimating a womans beauty based on her breasts.
adoxography - skilled writing on an unimportant subject.
accubation - eating or drinking while laying down.
abderian - given to incessant or idiotic...
September 2011
18 posts
“Your library is your portrait.”
– Holbrook Jackson
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to...”
– Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader’s Reflections on a Year of Books
“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
– Jack Gilbert
“No one will ever know what ‘In Cold Blood’ took out of me. It scraped me right...”
– Truman Capote
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had...”
– Eudora Welty
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
August 2011
10 posts
“Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer,...”
– Margaret Weis
July 2011
11 posts
“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any...”
– Ezra Pound
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened...”
– Ernest Hemingway
“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly;...”
– Ernest Hemingway
