so today is a new day, a new month and a new year, which means in five weeks from now, I’ll be another year older and hopefully wiser with age. since it is a new year, what way to start it off with is plenty of black coffee … got to have coffee and start …
Tag Archives: books
Documents Of The Mist
“Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can’t communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books – Too late, too late, the history of everything …
All Books
“All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.” ~ Amy Lowell
“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.” ~Joyce Carol Oates
Books
Currently reading Atonement by Ian McEwan, and Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney. Also reading The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, and The Granta Book of Irish Short Story. All are excellent reads.
Novels
“Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course, you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.” ~ Joan Didion
Reading a Poem
kick back and relax grab a book any book whatever tickles your fancy a good way to pass the time away oh, the joy of reading
The More You Read
“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.” ~ Stephen King
Two Sentence Story
Book, coffee, sitting in her favorite chair. All the comforts in the world she could want.
Successful Novel
“A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.” ~ Stephen King
Reading
“I don’t always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.” ~ Alice Munro
“To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.” ~Emily Dickinson
Devoted Reader(s)
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Friday 10/14
Stormy morning Lots of rain A good day to sit and read a good book or two Also indulge in black coffee The I am presently reading is: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Another book that I am also reading is: The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel.
Books Leaves and Mug
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My Book is My Home
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Reading A Novel
“When you’re reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do …
…the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS… ~Emily Dickinson
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“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” ~John Green
Reading Cartoon
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good book good coffee a comfortable place to do it
I heed her advice
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International Community Of Readers
“More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references are a hindrance. This seems obvious. I don’t decry it or criticize it – it’s just a fact.” ~ Tim Parks, Novelist
Looking for a book I’ve been badly wanting to read. Where do I begin?
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Reading Books
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ~ Anna Quindlen
The Best Experiences
“With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.” ~ Tim Parks, Novelist
Only Way To Read A Book
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Jack Kerouac
Finishing up Jack Kerouac’s novel: The Town and The City. Its the second time I have read it, and its an interesting read. The beginning of the book, he mentions the city I was born and raised in, the city I reside in now, and the river which is only two blocks away. When I …
The Creative Center Of A Writer’s Life
“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But …
A Writer’s Life
“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But …
sunday morning 10:07 a.m.
while spinning using the in stride cycle xl …i started a new book…. Invisible by Paul Auster… one of my favorite writers
me
an easy going guy get along well with others but generally keep to myself as I don’t like to get caught up in someone else’s bullshit religion is not my thing and politics…well that’s a subject that can get you into a lot of trouble… so tend to stay away from the subject what keeps …
7:16 a.m.
pouring rain a mug of coffee a book to read makes for a perfect start of the day
Coffee, Book, etc.
Pleasure Of Reading
Reading List
Books are a narcotic. ~Franz Kafka
We live for books. ~Umberto Eco
Treasured Wealth
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ~Henry David Thoreau
Books. Cats. Life is good. ~Edward Gorey
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ~Oscar Wilde
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. ~Iris Murdoch
All The Books We Own
Thursday Morning
sun is shining quiet inside outside the birds are singing relaxing reading a book
Act Of Reading
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you’re just not conscious of the physical act of reading. ~ Frank Shorter
Good
good coffee good book good day life is good
Good Books
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes
“Books are a habit-forming drug.” ~ Agatha Christie
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. ~Fran Lebowitz
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don’t we send recipe books to the starving? ~ Andrea Dworkin
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. The both are fruit, but taste completely different. ~Stephen King
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes
Great books help you understand, and they help you understood. ~John Green
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ~Anthony Burgess
She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live. ~Annie Dillard
Bookish Homeless People
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They’re bookish homeless people. -Lisa Yuskavage
Book Reading
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Bookstores
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“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~ Paul Valery
Coffee – Books
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ~ Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
R.I.P Toni Morrison
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison, 88 y/o – Author, Nobel Laureate
I’ll read my books ….
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. …
Coffee
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Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once. ~ Stephen King
To read a book …..
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~ Chinese Saying
“Why don’t you write books people can read?”
“Why don’t you write books people can read?” – Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
Henry Rollins Quote
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ~Henry Rollins
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Sir Richard Steele
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes, Philosopher – B. March 31, 1596 – D. February 11, 1650
“Books are a habit-forming drug.” ~ Agatha Christie
Never judge a book by its movie. ~ J. W. Eagan
Advantage Of Reading A Book
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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ~ Jane Smiley
Books Are The Perfect Entertainment ~ Stephen King
Born: September 21, 1947
Cornelia Funke ~ If I Was A Book
If I was book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all kinds of different kids. -Cornelia Funke, German Author
Reading A Book
Carl Sagan Quotation
Comforts
couch book black coffee ac is on the comforts of home
E. B. White – Library Quote
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times …
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
J.D. Salinger Quote
William Faulkner Quote
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner
Great Books
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. ~John Green
Summer Sky
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee ~Emily Dickinson, C.1879
Good Books
Quote ~ Al Pacino
“You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.” – Al Pacino
Books
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” ~ Isaac Asimov
Old Books
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Thinking
Occupation: Professor
Conversation
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Public Libraries
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. ~Henry Rollins
Books
Friend
There is no friend as loyal as a book. -Ernest Hemingway
The Eyes
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
First Amendment
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. -Thurgood Marshall Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
Feelings
Born: March 26, 1930 – Died: January 17, 2001 Occupation: Poet
People Are Best…
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ~Henry Rollins
Good Books…
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