45 of the Best Quotes About Books

Hello everyone,

  I came across this list on BookRiot.com and wanted to share with you. What are your favorite quotes about books?

45 Of The Best Quotes About Books

“I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” – Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice (print from Brilliant Business Mom)



“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” – James Baldwin



“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray



“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – Neil Gaiman in Coraline (print by Aenaon Art Work)




“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” – Erasmus



“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” – Jhumpa Lahiri in The Namesake



“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” – Louisa May Alcott in Work: A Story of Experience (bracelet from Jezebel Charms)





“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami in Norwegian Wood



“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” – Henry Ward Beecher



“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King in On Writing (print from InkInTheOzarks)





“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” – Isabel Allende



“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.” – Salman Rushdie



“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a book.” – J.K. Rowling (print from Laura Miller Studio)




“Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.” – Ursula K. Le Guin



“I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.” – Nnedi Okorafor in The Book of Phoenix



“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 (print from RedHill Printables)





“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That’s right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that’s kind of perverted or maybe it’s just romantic and highly intelligent.” – Sherman Alexie in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian



“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind



“I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges (print from Obvious State)




“I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.” – Tahereh Mafi in Shatter Me



“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis



“Words were different when they lived inside of you.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (bookmark from Erifilis)




“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.” – Octavia E. Butler



“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.” – Umberto Eco



“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin in A Dance With Dragons (bookmark from Wonderflies)





“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack” – Virginia Woolf in Street Haunting



“Books were my pass to personal freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey



“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” – Toni Morrison (print from Brighton Gifts)

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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen in How Reading Changed My Life



“A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.” – Robert Aris Willmott



“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” – Annie Dillard in The Living (print from Dorothy Reads)





“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.” – Patrick Rothfuss in The Name of the Wind



“I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again — if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.” – Marilynne Robinson



“‘I’m wondering what to read next.’ Matilda said. ‘I’ve finished all the children’s books.'” – Roald Dahl in Matilda (pin from Jelly Button UK)




“The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.” – Junot Díaz



“The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” – Kurt Vonnegut in A Man Without A Country



“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.” – Catherynne M. Valente in The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making (tote from I’m Bookish and Bakewell)





“Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds.” – Roxane Gay in Bad Feminist



“Happiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a book shop. What better life than to trade in happiness?” – Sarah MacLean in The Rogue Not Taken



“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Cicero (pillow from Minnie and Maude)





“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.” – Donna Tartt in The Secret History



“…the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and their magic.” – Arundhati Roy in The God of Small Things



“In the end, we’ll all become stories.” – Margaret Atwood in Moral Disorder and Other Stories (print from Little Creek Creative)





“Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.” – A.S. Byatt in Possession



“If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.” – Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Wild Woman's Guide to Traveling the World Review

Wild Woman's Guide to Traveling the World  by Kristin Rockaway (June 6,2017)

Genre:  Fiction

Publisher: Carter Street

Source: Sent by the publisher

Book Description:

Fans of Sophie Kinsella and The Devil Wears Prada will love this smart, sexy debut novel of wanderlust.

Objectively, Sophie is a success: she's got a coveted job at a top consulting firm, a Manhattan apartment, and a passport full of stamps. It isn't quite what she dreamed of when she was a teenager dog-earing pages in exotic travel guides, but it's secure. Then her best friend bails just hours after they arrive in Hong Kong for a girls' trip, and Sophie meets Carson, a free-spirited, globetrotting American artist.

In the midst of their whirlwind vacation romance, Carson invites Sophie to join him on his haphazard journey around the world. While the brief international jaunts she sneaks in between business trips don't feel like enough, Sophie is far too practical to throw away her five-year plan on a whim. Yet Carson's offer forces her to question whether the reliable life she's chosen is really what she wants--and she soon discovers that his feelings for her run deeper than she realized.

Review:

How many of us are pursuing our passions? This wonderful novel shows us how some things can't be planned and how to change the things that aren't making you happy.

Sophie loves to travel and her job allows her that, but she doesn't realize what's she's missing until Carson arrives in her life. He's a trust fund traveler and shows Sophie how to live in the moment and live life unplanned.

She's always thought that romance wasn't for her, but with Carson she fell hard and sees what's missing in her life. After meeting Carson she sees life in a different way and realizes she's not as happy as she thought.

If you like travel and romance, then you'll love this book.

Happy Reading!

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Dining and Driving with Cats: Alice Unplugged Review

Dining and Driving With Cats: Alice Unplugged  by Pat  Patterson

Genre:  Travel

Publisher: Ion Publishers

Source: Sent by the author for a review

Book Description:

Dining and Driving With Cats - Alice Unplugged is a heartwarming and hilarious true adventure of a couple who shares a love that most of us only imagine. Pat Patterson is a born storyteller and makes readers feel as if they are part of the road trip. This book will keep you up late into the night reading and laughing.   Here is the remarkable story of how a girl who loved cats captured the heart of a young man who came in from the rain.  This is their story of a shared love for travel and history, for food and for their sweet and wily cats Munchie and Tuffy. No cats were harmed during the writing of this book, although the humans have been left with minor physical scars from this very real trip with two very real cats. With the help of his Editor Bryna Kranzler, the award winning author of  The Accidental Anarchist , a non-stop two hundred and sixty page adventure wrapped in a tender love story emerges from the author s diary. Alice is a real life brainy, successful business woman.  Today she lives in San Miguel de Allende a small cathedral town high in the Central Mexican foothills. For over thirty years she lived in Washington D.C. When she was fresh out of grad school and managing her firm s D.C. office she captured the  heart of a young man who came in from the rain. He fell hard. He pursued her.  She said no she told him she had cats. What she didn t tell him was that she also had a secret. Over thirty years have passed since Alice revealed her secret. The young man is no longer young but he still pursues her. She calls him hubby. Now sharing a dream home in San Miguel with their two cats Alice suggests they embark on a road trip from Mexico to Blowing Rock, N.C. in the Blue Ridge mountains. Alice insists the two cats Munchie and Tuffy must ride along. Hubby resists. Alice seduces him with a promise. She promises to buy him the perfect vehicle for the trip. He dreams of a Suburban SUV like the ones on CSI Miami and Criminal Minds or maybe a Ford Platinum F-150 4 Door Supercab like the one Mark Wahlberg and Hugh Jackman drive. Alice surprises with a Japanese sub-compact. She buys him a Honda Fit. The reader joins the foursome as an intimate passenger on the first leg of the journey from the Mexican border to Atlanta, Georgia. If you come along you will dine on scrumptious creations from America s most acclaimed chefs from Austin and New Orleans to the Procope and Odeon Relais at Buci Market in Paris. You will laugh at cats stuck in boxes, cry over destruction beyond imagination, fight with a Pirate, terrify a US Vice-President, learn cat smuggling, thrill with a love that wouldn t die, and learn how the Other Woman persuaded Alice to accept my ring. So what s keeping you? Hop in cause these cats don t bite. Besides,  The Get In Here and Eat  pop-up food truck is waiting just up the Austin highway.

Review:

If you've ever wanted to know what it was like to drive across several states with two cats, then this book is for you. As a cat mom to four, one being an Orange Maine Coon, I would not even think of doing what Pat & Alice embarked on.

I enjoyed reading about the places they visited and the places they dined. If I ever go on a road trip, without the cats, I have to look up the places they experienced and experience them for myself.

This book has humor, adventure, and most of all love of each other and their cats. If you like travel books and cats, then this is the book for you.

The author sent me a copy for an honest review and I recommend it to all travel buffs and cat lovers alike.

Happy Reading!

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Top Ten Challenged Books for 2016

I saw this on Bustle's website and wanted to share with you. How many of these have you read?

In 2016, the American Library Association (ALA) received 323 challenges about books that adults felt should not be available for young people to read. The Top Ten Most Challenged Books in 2016 are:

1. This One Summer, written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
2. Drama, written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
3. George by Alex Gino
4. I Am Jazz, written by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, and illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas
5. Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
6. Looking for Alaska by John Green
7. Big Hard Sex Criminals, written by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Chip Zdarsky
8. Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread by Chuck Palahniuk
9. Little Bill (series) written by Bill Cosby and illustrated by Varnette P. Honeywood
10. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

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What's On The Reading Table

WHAT’S ON MY READING TABLE

This is the first one of these for the New Year. I hope your year is off to a great start and that you have lots of great books to read.

Dining and Driving with Cats: Alice Unplugged  by Pat Patterson

Dining and Driving With Cats - Alice Unplugged is a heartwarming and hilarious true adventure of a couple who shares a love that most of us only imagine. Pat Patterson is a born storyteller and makes readers feel as if they are part of the road trip. This book will keep you up late into the night reading and laughing.  Here is the remarkable story of how a girl who loved cats captured the heart of a young man who came in from the rain.  This is their story of a shared love for travel and history, for food and for their sweet and wily cats Munchie and Tuffy. No cats were harmed during the writing of this book, although the humans have been left with minor physical scars from this very real trip with two very real cats. With the help of his Editor Bryna Kranzler, the award winning author of  “The Accidental Anarchist”, a non-stop two hundred and sixty page adventure wrapped in a tender love story emerges from the author’s diary.

         Alice is a real life brainy, successful business woman.  Today she lives in San Miguel de Allende a small cathedral town high in the Central Mexican foothills. For over thirty years she lived in Washington D.C.. When she was fresh out of grad school and managing her firm’s D.C. office she captured the  heart of a young man who came in from the rain. He fell hard. He pursued her.  She said no –she told him she had cats. What she didn’t tell him was that she also had a secret. Over thirty years have passed since Alice revealed her secret. The young man is no longer young but he still pursues her. She calls him hubby.

Now sharing a dream home in San Miguel with their two cats Alice suggests they embark on a road trip from Mexico to Blowing Rock, N.C. in the Blue Ridge mountains. Alice insists the two cats Munchie and Tuffy must ride along. Hubby resists. Alice seduces him with a promise. She promises to buy him the perfect vehicle for the trip. He dreams of a Suburban SUV like the ones on CSI Miami and Criminal Minds or maybe a Ford Platinum F-150 4 Door Supercab like the one Mark Wahlberg and Hugh Jackman drive. Alice surprises with a Japanese sub-compact. She buys him a Honda Fit.

         The reader joins the foursome as an intimate passenger on the first leg of the journey from the Mexican border to Atlanta, Georgia. If you come along you will dine on scrumptious creations from America’s most acclaimed chefs from Austin and New Orleans to the Procope and Odeon Relais at Buci Market in Paris. You will laugh at cats stuck in boxes, cry over destruction beyond imagination, fight with a Pirate, terrify a US Vice-President, learn cat smuggling, thrill with a love that wouldn’t die, and learn how the Other Woman persuaded Alice to accept my ring. So what’s keeping you? Hop in ‘cause these cats don’t bite. Besides, “The Get In Here and Eat” pop-up food truck is waiting just up the Austin highway.

The Wild Woman's Guide to Traveling the World by Kristin Rockaway

Fans of Sophie Kinsella and The Devil Wears Prada will love this smart, sexy debut novel of wanderlust.

Objectively, Sophie is a success: she's got a coveted job at a top consulting firm, a Manhattan apartment, and a passport full of stamps. It isn't quite what she dreamed of when she was a teenager dog-earing pages in exotic travel guides, but it's secure. Then her best friend bails just hours after they arrive in Hong Kong for a girls' trip, and Sophie meets Carson, a free-spirited, globetrotting American artist.

In the midst of their whirlwind vacation romance, Carson invites Sophie to join him on his haphazard journey around the world. While the brief international jaunts she sneaks in between business trips don't feel like enough, Sophie is far too practical to throw away her five-year plan on a whim. Yet Carson's offer forces her to question whether the reliable life she's chosen is really what she wants--and she soon discovers that his feelings for her run deeper than she realized.

Letting Go by Maria Thompson Corley

Even though she lives hundreds of miles away, when Langston, who dreams of being a chef, meets Cecile, a Juilliard-trained pianist, he is sure that his history of being a sidekick, instead of a love interest, is finally over. Their connection is real and full of potential for a deeper bond, but the obstacles between them turn out to be greater than distance. Can these busy, complicated people be ready for each other at the same time? Does it even matter? Before they can answer these questions, each must do battle with the ultimate demon—fear.

Told in a witty combination of standard prose, letters, emails, and diary entries, LETTING GO, in the tradition of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's AMERICANAH, is a long-distance love story that also examines race, religion, and the difficult choices we make following our passions. From the Great White North to the streets of New York City to the beaches of Bermuda, LETTING GO is a journey of longing, betrayal, self-discovery and hope you will never forget.

That's what's on my reading table, what's on yours?

Happy Reading!

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