A Bit Bookish: Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever make it through all the books I want to read

Favorite Books

A Whale for the Killing by Farley Mowat
All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
How Now Shall We Live by Charles Colson
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
River of Earth by James Still
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
The Mitford series by Jan Karon
The Stand by Stephen King

Stop thinking this is all there is...

Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral.

Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel.

Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious...there's your opening!

And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable.

...Mark Morford, Newspaper Columnist and Yoga Instructor

The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
— Cosmos
Carl SAGAN

Monday, January 31, 2011

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever make it through all the books I want to read

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Monday, January 31, 2011

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever make it through all the books I want to read

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This quote from Eudora Welty captures perfectly how I feel about books and reading

Get Caught Reading

CONAN THE LIBRARIAN

Library

Librarian

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Barbara Kingsolver

For sure!

Asking a Librarian her favorite book is like asking a Mother her favorite child

Barbara Gordon, a.k.a. Batgirl, Librarian

lol

I LOVE NEIL GAIMAN

Love the Fantasy/SciFi genre

The Chronicles of Narnia are an excellent read!

BOOKS: The Other Channel

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