“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

I am definitely guilty of filling my sons’ bookshelves with books that I loved as a child!

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

(Although in the case of this blog…the more you get through, the better!)

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.”
― John Green

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

 

Come out all you Douglas Adams fans…

“Beppu (n.)

The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.”
― Douglas Adams, The Deeper Meaning of Liff

Have you a beppu in your life lately?