"This was but a prelude;
where books are burnt
human-beings will be burnt
in the end"
German poet Heinrich Heine, 1820
"It was a pleasure to burn."--Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho...
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"This was but a prelude;
where books are burnt
human-beings will be burnt
in the end"
German poet Heinrich Heine, 1820
"It was a pleasure to burn."--Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx
"How do you know your peanut butter has a pill inside of it? Take this simple test. Is your owner giving you peanut butter? If the answer is yes, then the chances are are good that there is a pill in it."--The Dangerous Book for Dogs, by Rex & Sparky
So about me....I was put in 'special' reading classes until the second grade when a teacher figured out that I wasn't a slow reader, I was a bored reader--I had already plowed through what my other classmates were struggling with. I read books behind textbooks, in the rumbleseat of the family stationwagon, in the cemetery behind my house, under trees, under covers with a flashlight, and tested my local librarian and my father with the amount of checked out books my purple bike with the sparkly banana seat would ferry back and forth. My library card was one of my most prized possessions for quite some time and when the book fair came to school, it was sheer agony to choose just one or two books out of so many I wanted to own.
Fast forward many years and I find myself on a social networking site and see a widget for Shelfari, try to add it to my page and have trouble so check out the Shelfari web site to fix the widget and WOW! what a world I find! Somewhere along the road of being a grownup (well, okay, sort of), going back to school, work and day-to-day stuff, reading has fallen by the wayside for me and I miss it. Periodicals, textbooks and trade journals simply don't cut it--I crave the pleasure of reading something because I WANT to read it, the discovery waiting for me, the sheer anticipation of selecting a book to read. A good book for me is one that leaves the reader a different person, changed in some way from who they were before beginning it.
So here I am, once again seeing all the endless possibilities stretched before me.....and happily succumbing to them all.
Oh, and I fixed my widget on that other social networking site--only to take it off--no one really seems that interested in what/or if I read there :)
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