I didn’t want to let them in, her and Peeta, but the walls of a person’s heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love.
- Haymitch, Epilogue, Sunrise on the Reaping
Have we considered a lifelong Accelerated Reader program where grown adults in their 30s and 40s can get free movie tickets and better airline seats if they read books
the preschool teachers asked me to stop sending my three year old in Elsa dresses and I kinda looked at them like as if I am preferentially having her wear an Elsa dress every day?
No matter how we advance technologically, never abandon physical books. Never lose the feel of a book between your hands, the smell of the pages, the charm of the spine on your bookshelf, and the ability to really smack someone over the head with a hardcover.
Paperbacks for daily reading.
Hardcovers for the books you just can't wait for.
E-readers for having your entire library at your fingertips.
Audiobooks for when your mind is free while your body is busy.
You’ve heard of writer’s block? Now meet the reader’s block. You want to read. You have time. You know what to read. You have a pile of books ready to read. But you can't sit still enough to read...