At about page twenty or so, the magical thing occurred that happens only with the very best books: I became absorbed and obsessed and entered the Can’t you see I’m reading? mode.
Even the stay-at-home mothers subjected their kids to a kind of benign neglect back then.
Reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.
SThat’s enriched my life more than I can say. Of course you could do more—you can always do more, and you should do more—but still, the important thing is to do what you can, whenever you can.
A father and his son are in a terrible car crash. The father is killed instantly—but the son survives, barely, his life hanging in the balance. He’s rushed to the hospital and into surgery, but there’...
Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I...
But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks shows that every great religion shares a love of books, of reading, of knowledge. The indi...
Connelly writes, As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as people whisper the words they’re forbidden to speak aloud. In
Even if the stars are obliterated by light there are beautiful things to see all around us, and we can't be bothered. But its not because we are ill, most of us. Or because it's too cold. Or because w...
Halpern wants the reader to think about the difference between asking How are you feeling? and Do you want me to ask how you’re feeling?
If you stayed at home, you might not get the opportunity to go to that place again. But if you went, you could always com back.
It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty.Why is it important? Because when you read about it, it’s easier to recognize. That was always the hardest thing in the refuge...
Mom went on to tell me, as we sat there, that she really believed your personal life was personal. Secrets, she felt, rarely explained or excused anything in real life, or were even all that interesti...
Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying
Universal health care was always an issue Mom cared about, and the more care she got, the angrier she became that good medicine wasn’t available for everyone in the United States. The pharmacy almost...
When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter--they wanted books for their chil...
A book by David K. Reynolds, who had, in the early 1980s, come up with a system he called Constructive Living, a Western combination of two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on ge...
A pamphlet that she’d been handed when she was visiting an African country where people were able to vote freely for the first time. The pamphlet was called The Ten Commandments for Voters,
Remains for my family the perfect model of how you can be gone but ever present in the lives of people who loved you, in the same way that your favorite books stay with you for your entire life, no ma...
In the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the y...
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