It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic completely out the window, then that writer has me for good. Most book surprises aren'...
Ishmael Beah’s memoir of his life as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, A Long Way Gone.
If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family memb...
For this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a novel by a thirty-seven-year-old author, Mohsin Hamid,
Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took h...
Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, which had won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005,
He 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...
I gave people who didn’t know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong.
She always read the end of a book first because she couldn’t wait to find out how things would turn out.
There’s something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don’t know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.
A thank-you note isn’t the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn’t what...
I like books. I don't read them. But I like them.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, the new book by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.
The book, Lamott says the two best prayers are Help me, Help me, Help me and Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
We found ourselves discussing the three kinds of fateful choices that exist in the two books: the ones characters make knowing that they can never be undone; the ones they make thinking they can but l...
I become influenced while I'm reading. I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started. Brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates new ones. Every book changes your life.
John Irving reading A Prayer for Owen Meany,
That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.
Everyone doesn't have to do everything... People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging things created...
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