Must Love Books: In my Mailbox

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." — Dr. Seuss

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back." — John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library." --Jorge Luis Borges

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." --Madeleine L'Engle

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." --Oscar Wilde

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." --Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness." --lemony Snicket

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." --Paul Sweeney

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than a book!...When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." -- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." --Mark Twain

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." --Gustave Flaubert

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you feel like it." --J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." --Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"I cannot live without books." --Thomas Jefferson

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" --Henry Ward Beecher

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."--Anna Quindlen

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else." --Mark Twain

"A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."--Lemony Snicket

"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." --Christopher Paolini

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." -- Frederick Douglass

"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books." --John Green, Looking for Alaska

Monday, July 12, 2010

In my Mailbox

In my mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren.

I got lots of stuff this week. It's very exciting! I got a library card this week! I didn't have one before because it is expensive to get one if you live outside city limits. Thanks to my lovely Aunt and Grandmother, I now have one!!!!!!!!!

Books I got for review:
Ascendant by Diana Peterfreund
Blue Fire by Janice Hardy
The Frenzy by Francesca Lia Block
Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill

(Big shout out and thanks to Harper Collins for sending me all these books!)

Library books I got:
A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
Cloud Watcher by Lilith Saintcrow
Fire Watcher by Lilith Saintcrow
*For Keeps by Natasha Friend
Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough
Soulless by Christopher Golden
Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher

* means I've read it and review will be up sometime soon

What did everyone else get?

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A Book AdventureJuly 12, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Great IMM. Use up that library card like theres no tomorrow :) New follower, love your blog.
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