Just talked to my baby niece and she was excited to tell me about the new book she read.
I explained to her that this is an Edgar award winner, and what that means.
She told me she was writing a list of all the author‘s books she wants to read - I explained she was making her first TBR 🙌🏻😃
And then she found that Willo Davis Roberts has over 50 books! So she found her first back catalogue to dive into 🥰
And this… is #whyweread 💁🏻♀️🥰📚
"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Paper Mache sculpture by Tanaka Kazuhiko
#lucretius #TheBookKeeper #sculpture #classics #whyweread #philosophy
Fiction is the response to a deep and always hidden wound.
Gustave Flaubert, Letters
#flaubert, #reading #books #classics #literature #whyweread
Blest who can unconcernedly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away,
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day.
from Ode on Solitude, Alexander Pope
#odeonsolitude #alexanderpope #poetry #solitude #reading #whyweread
"To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books."
The House of Paper, Carlos Maria Dominguez
#thehouseofpaper #catlosmariadominguez #booksaboutbooks #libraries #literature #collectingbooks #reading #whyweread #bibliophile
"To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends."
Milan Kundera, Identity
#TheBookKeeper #milankundera #identity #reading #books #memories #whyweread #consolation
http://thebookkeepersite.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/the-old-lady-who-bought-a-book...
The job of good fiction is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.
David Foster Wallace
Artwork by Pawel Kuczynski
#davidfosterwallace #whyweread #reading #literature #bibliophile
https://thebookkeepersite.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/i-am-barely-surviving-my-read...
"Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you and a horizon that's always changing! "
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
#thewindinthewillows #kennethgrahame #classics #whyweread #bibliophile #greatbooks
This and Small Great Things and nonfiction books on similar topics are invaluable. As a white woman in an interracial marriage it is one of the ways I can explore the feelings my children may someday have. It isn't fair to claim I will ever fully understand the struggles too many people have had to endure due to race, but I can and do try to learn and become more aware of as much as I can. I urge others to do the same. #whyweread
