I've been gone a while. I started reading fanfiction to escape and I got sucked in an abyss.
I have no idea if someone else is hosting similar challenges. I just grabbed some of what I have hosted before.
Here's to a happy year of great reading
Jan2023: Not much has changed. Writing a fanfiction now O_o as well as reading but I bought 7 new books in December and hope to get those read soon. Crossing fingers about adding challenges (late!)
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hosted by Leslie at That Chick that Reads.I was reading free shorts around the web and this paragraph made me think how nice it would be. Our couch reclines so we don't have a coffee table and, for some reason, ;-) my husband doesn't want my reading material all over....
Will was moving around the living room, picking up magazines and books, making neat stacks on the coffee table. The stacks would be dismantled soon enough, as he dove back in for reading material. It wasn't unusual for there to be two or more books open over the arm of the couch, and the latest issues of the magazines to have the subscription cards sticking out at angles for bookmarks.
sigh
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hosted by Leslie at That Chick that Reads."Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
Kurt Cobain
If only we can believe this & act on it....
found on gmail's Quote of the Day
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hosted by Leslie at That Chick that Reads."Men will die on both sides," he said quietly.
"And there is no need. Only Zarnak's greed for power."
Alayah smiled sadly. "I fear, my son," she said softly, "that greed is at the root of most wars."
pg 205,
The Dragonling, Collector's Edition, Vol. 2 by Jackie French Koller
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hosted by Leslie at That Chick that Reads."Will someone explain to me," Qwilleran asked, "why KoKo always eats with with his rear end pointed north? No matter where he's being fed, he knows which way is north. And Yum Yum always approaches her food from the left. If something's in the way and she has to do otherwise, she throws up.
pg 41,
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun
KoKo and Yum Yum are cats and while this is just part of a conversation about superstitions, I felt it was funny and appropriate for today.
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hosted by Leslie at That Chick that Reads.Before he left that night, Jones opened his suitcase, holding it carefully away from my curious gaze, and removed three small, orange hardcover books. "Do you read?" he asked. As I nodded, he added, "I'm not asking if you can read; I'm asking if you do."
pg 9,
The Noticer by Andy Andrews
While this is a pivotal point in the story, it is also a very important distinction. For it does not matter if you can read, if you do not.
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hosted by Leslie at That Chick that Reads.I wasn't able to hold back. Something primordial surged through my body and took over. The feeling coursed through my veins, possessed me. Tracer rounds were zipping overhead again. So I squeezed the trigger and fired rounds downrange. Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.
pg 22,
Soft Spots by Clint Van Winkle
edited to add: The others are writing why they choose the quote they did. I choose this one because it makes are great teaser but also because it is such a universal warning to think before you speak.
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hosted by Leslie at That Chick that Reads.The difference between a person who appreciates books, even loves them, and a collector is not only degrees of affection, I realized. For the former, the bookshelf is a kind of memoir: there are my childhood books, my college books, my favorite novels, my inexplicable choices. Many matchmaking and social networking websites offer a place for members to list what they're reading for just this reason: books can reveal a lot about a person. But for the collector, the bookshelf is a reflection not just of what he has read, but profoundly who he is: "Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they can come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them," wrote cultural critic Walter Benjamin.
pg 64,
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
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hosted by Leslie at That Chick that Reads.I commented about the book related quote on the bottom of today's posts, completely forgetting about my
"Quote" post! I scheduled it months ago.
I'll be looking for great quotes for Saturday along with my teasers on Tuesdays.
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