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Probably 3.5 stars The Pickwick Papers is a full cast of characters with the mix of buffoonery and chivalry typical in a Dickens' novel. For me, however, the episodic adventures did not provide the substance to allow these characters to capture my hea...more |
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| Epistolary in structure, and definitely NOT a children's book (content and language) though I most closely equate it with my daughter's book Angelina's Invitation to the Ballet in that each page contains either an envelope with a removable folded let...more | |
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Another "Foreign Parenting is Better" book; this one (chosen as a book club selection) kept my attention. Because my children are now young teens, I intended on skimming the majority of this book just to get the basics. Within a couple pages, however,...more |
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"Charmaine: That wasn't you? Would you like me to delete the comment? (I thought it was humorous.)"
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“Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”
― Joseph Smith Jr., The Doctrine and Covenants, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Containing the Revelations Given to Joseph Smith, Jun., the Prophet, for the Building Up of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days
― Joseph Smith Jr., The Doctrine and Covenants, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Containing the Revelations Given to Joseph Smith, Jun., the Prophet, for the Building Up of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days
“Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me. Alice in Wonderland. the Magic Faraway Tree. The Hound of the Baskervilles. The Book of Job. Bleak House. Wuthering Heights. The Complete Poems of W H Auden. The Tale of Mr Tod. Howard''s End. What a strange person I must be. But if the books I have read have helped to form me, then probably nobody else who ever lived has read exactly the same books, all the same books and only the same books as me. So just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.”
― Susan Hill, Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
― Susan Hill, Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons
― Stephen King, Different Seasons
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