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Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious ba...more

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Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each re...more

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

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You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about president...more

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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

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I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the...more

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... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.

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I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the b...more

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Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call...more

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How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually ...more

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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

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But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back...more