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Monday, November 4, 2013

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can't be in books. The book needs you.
~Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

2 comments:

BECKY said...: Oh, how I love this one! You always have amazing quotes!! AND pictures!; November 5, 2013 at 10:46 PM
Trish said...: Thanks Becky! I love this quote because it says what I have felt for a for a long time: that books I love are loving me right back when I read them.; November 6, 2013 at 8:36 AM

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Guerrilla Reading

Turn off the TV

Turn off the computer

Turn off the game console

Always have a book with you to read ~

~before going to sleep

~before getting up

~in the bathtub

~while waiting for your ride

~while on the bus/train/plane

~while dinner is cooking

~while exercising (audiobooks!)

~while driving (ditto)

~while waiting for an appointment

~while baby is napping

~after kids are in bed

~with kids

~to kids

~while eating lunch

~while eating breakfast

~at the cottage (dock, hammock, screen porch)

~while walking

~while waiting for kids in the mom & dad taxi

~on a park bench

~instead of housework

~in the bathroom

~while on hold on the phone

~on the porch with a cocktail

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