Category: Say What?
Daily Book Reading
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” -Mark Twain
There is a website for those of you who think you do not have time to read. Visit www.dailylit.com and choose from a wide range of books. The site will email you a small portion of the book each day that takes less than five minutes to read. Many of the books are free, although some of them do cost money. I decided to try it with a short classic, The Prince. I signed up yesterday and it took me one minute. Really. If you feel like reading more you can request the next installment be emailed to you immediately. It’s largest categories are classics, contemporaries and romance, but there are many more. Take a look and tell me what book you chose to start reading today.
Traveling
“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness. There’s no looking at a building here, after seeing Italy.” Fanny Burney, Cecilia
Authors on Books
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ~W. Somerset Maugham
Know Your Books
CHECK BACK NEXT MONDAY FOR THE NEXT ONE. CONGRATS TO GOLDA!
Here’s how to play…Identify the quote by telling me what book it’s from. Leave a comment with the # of the quote and the title of the book and I’ll cross it off the list.
Here’s a hint, these five quotes came from the first 21 books on my Favorite 100 list.
#1 “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” Golda-To Kill a Mockingbird
#2 “Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!” Golda- Harry Potter
#3 “And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No reader: gratitude and many associates, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.” Golda- Jane Eyre
#4 “One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” Fellowship of the Ring – Jason
#5 “Rabbits need dignity and above all else the will to accept their fate.” Golda- Watership Down
Thirteenth Quote
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.” -from Chapter 2 of The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
I’m still reading this, so the review will follow.
Be Happy
“I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.” -Charles Dickens
“I dwell in possibility.” -Emily Dickinson
“Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled.” -Mark Twain
Just for laughs
“If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.” -Rita Mae Brown
“I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.” -Dorothy Parker
January notes
“I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go to the other room and read a book.” -Groucho Marx
The current writer’s strike made it easy to curl up with a book this month. I read three books I would recommend; Tourist Season, The Painted Veil, and On Writing. I will be back tomorrow with my new free books for February. Happy reading!
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