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“When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.”
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“... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”
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“Il possédait comme tout le monde sa terminaison en "iste", sans laquelle personne n'aurait pu vivre en ce temps-là, mais il n'était ni royaliste, ni bonapartiste, ni chartiste, ni orléaniste, ni anarchiste; il était bouquiniste.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.”
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
“I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.”
― The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 3: 1921-1929
― The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 3: 1921-1929
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The "To Be Read" Reading Challenge. Every book-addict knows the problem. We have tons of unread books on our shelves, yet we never seem to get to re ...more
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Ellen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ellen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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