Now that Christmas is past, a little thought about my favorite kind of gift… “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” – Garrison Keillor, author and radio personality Read more

This is a great choice for this week’s Quotable. I think that people really underestimate young readers. They assume all they want are video games and picture books, but J.K. Rowling proved that if you give them a great story, those kids will stick with you for a thousand pages. “Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is… Read more

I chose this quote about reading in school because I think it’s quite true. I think that teachers would be more effective — and students would be better served in the long run — if teachers assigned them books that instilled a love of reading. Instead, too many kids come away believing that reading is something awful that they have… Read more

Oh, this made me smile. There are some great things about ebooks, but you lose something when you aren’t holding the book in your hands. “How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?” – Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop     Read more

Oh, now here is a question that we Readers are all familiar with — and I love the responses she runs through. “She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. “A few hundred,” she said. “How do you have the time?” he asked, gobsmacked. She narrowed her eyes and considered the array… Read more

Here’s an interesting quote and I would love to hear your comments on it. I think it gets at the heart of why so many avid readers get pegged as book snobs. A lot of my well-read friends dislike a lot of popular fiction, and it makes them sound snobbish, but the fact is that they are probably just pickier… Read more

Oh, I love this quote! I have to be very careful reading in bed, or I end up reading till dawn. “I’m always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can’t go to sleep, and stay up… Read more

This makes perfect sense to me… “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.” – Stephen King Read more

Oh, this is a terrific one, since it addresses that tiny, guilty voice that a lot of us have. I get a lot of books, and to keep myself from being buried in them, I pass them on to others. I do all the things listed below, and it’s a huge relief to see an author talk about it. “[D]on’t… Read more

I love this quote! It’s not an author I’m familiar with, but I like the idea that I am somehow giving back to the books I read, sharing something of myself with their pages. I also think it is extremely accurate, in that reading a book I loved at another period in my life takes me back to that time.… Read more