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~ Friday, December 3 ~
“ So, when the weather is—as it mostly is—wet and windy, I’ll stay indoors over a book, leaning closer and closer as light dwindles, to scan it by that peculiar sheen of rain-light and leaf-light and stone-light leaching through the big window.
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— Eamon Grennan, “Country Road”, via holiday card for @BoswellBooks from @GraywolfPress
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~ Thursday, December 2 ~
“ The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
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— The Art of Fiction LXXXVII by Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review Issue 96, 1985
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~ Monday, November 29 ~
Favorite Book, 12yrs old
The following is excerpted from the rough draft of an application for private school.
The latest book I can relate to is White Fang by Jack London. It’s the entrancing story of the struggle of a wild dog/wolf who was hurt physically and emotionally by humans, animals and nature. Being passed off from brutal owner to brutal owner, he learns to become a great dog fighter. Because he has been hurt so many times, he has put up his own walls. These walls stop any love from entering. It’s very hard for him to trust anyone or anything. It appeals to me because I can relate to it so much. It makes me respect more of nature and the wild. It was such a good book, I couldn’t put it down.
I didn’t get accepted. Instead, I went on to become a bookseller where I get paid to make up stuff like this.
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~ Thursday, September 9 ~
“ I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe.
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— Franz Kafka in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak.
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~ Saturday, July 24 ~
Italo Calvino’s sections of the bookstore:
Have always wanted to do this w/ Calvino’s books list: answer completely every 2 years. Like Proust and his questionnaire.
- Books You Haven’t Read
- Books You Needn’t Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You’ll Wait ‘Til They’re Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You’re Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time to Re-read
- Books You’ve Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It’s Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them
from If On A Winters Night A Traveler - love this book.
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~ Monday, June 7 ~
“ Who was that bookseller who thought, ‘Here is an almost-eight-year-old girl who loves Abraham Lincoln. What other book will she love? Oh, yes. This book about a cricket.’? There was nothing logical about that decision. It was a leap of faith. Those two books changed me. Together, they cemented an idea in my eight-year-old heart. That idea was this: It doesn’t matter how small, how lonely, how broken or sad or poor you are. There is a way to make yourself heard. There is a way to sing. A bookseller put those books into my mother’s hands, and my mother put them into mine. Sometimes we forget that this simple, physical gesture can change lives. I want to remind you that it does. I want to thank you because it did.
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— “Booksellers Make the Difference” -Kate DiCamillo, BEA 2010
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