Must Love Books: About/Review Policy

"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

About/Review Policy

I've had my blog for a long time now and decided I needed a better section for my review policy and about me.

About Me

First off, my name is Ariel and I'm in my early 20's. I've always loved to read (ask my mom and you will hear a different answer though). I got my love of reading from everyone in my family, especially my father who even named my sister after a Lord of the Rings character. That's right, I was born into a book nerdy family. Harry Potter started my love of reading and for awhile I wasn't reading as much as I should. Then Twilight came along and rekindled my love of reading. I haven't stop since. This is why my blog design is both Twilight and Harry Potter. They gave me my love of reading and I'm showing it back. Those series changed my life.

In my non reading time, I'm either working or doing some form of art. I love to paint, make tshirts, or some other form of artiness. Recently I've taught myself the craft of whittling and have started making Harry Potter wands.

Review Policy

I've recently decided that I'm not accepting review requests at the moment. By accepting so many requests, my blog was starting to feel more like a job and was losing it's fun. I was feeling guilty about not getting the books read in time or reviewing in a timely manner and it made me not want to blog at all. This blog is just one of many hobbies of mine and it needs to stay fun for me.

However, if I've read your book (I keep lists of the books I've read either in my "past reads" page, my "review" page or in my side bar) and would like to do an interview, or cover reveals or something else related to the book, email me and we can work out the details.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. :)

I can be emailed at hyperhamster15@hotmail.com

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