For the love of books

Why another blog? It took me 8 years to finish a journal and I have several different blogs for different reasons, but why this one? Well, moving back and forth between the house and my apartment during the school week often causes me to forget to bring things back and forth. One such thing is my book quote. I mean, you never know when you need that book quote again! So rather than remember to bring my quote book back and forth, I now have an accessible online version all the time.

"A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it." -- William Styron

"Reading is powerful. Revolutions have started from reading. The Reformation didn't just promote reading; reading started and fueled it. When oppressors and tyrants want to squash freedom they burn books, with authors of the books soon to follow. There is something almost mystical about a book. There is something wondrous about reading." -- Feelings and Faith, page 201, Brian Borgman

"What refuge is there for the victim who is possessed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to read a hundred?" -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.