The whole idea of what happens when you read a book, I find absolutely stunning. Here’s some product of a tree, little black squiggles on it, you open it up, an inside your head is the voice of someone speaking, who may have been dead 3000 years, and there he is talking directly to you, what a magical thing that is. | |
— Carl Sagan | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | And I’m Not Letting Go |
2018 | The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan |
Day 3: Approaching The Half Way Point | |
2017 | Orange Comb-Overs Unite! |
2016 | Speaking Of Which |
2015 | Complexity Has A Strict Architecture |
2014 | Just Support |
2013 | Wandering Free |
2012 | Contribute = Paying Taxes |
2011 | How Will You Be Judged? |
Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Magical Voices In My Head
Posted in History, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Carl Sagan, History, Magic, Quotes on July 30, 2020| Leave a Comment »
And The Same Goes For Blogs / Posts
Posted in Quotes, Reading, Writing, tagged Blogging, Books, Meaning, Quotes, Reading, W. Somerset Maugham, Writing on July 11, 2020| 2 Comments »
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. | |
–– W. Somerset Maugham | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Not Enough |
2018 | One Thing We Do Know |
2017 | Preservation |
2016 | Going Back |
2015 | Just For Today |
2014 | Reaching For Destiny |
2013 | Still Just Passing Through |
2012 | Live Or Die |
2011 | On Secession |
2010 | A Rocky Weekend |
I Resemble That Remark… (7!)
Posted in Humor, Quotes, tagged Books, Bookstores, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Encyclopedia, How To Hug, Humor, Quotes on December 4, 2019| Leave a Comment »
There is an amusing story of a young man who decides he wants to learn how to better relate to others. He goes to a bookstore and is hard pressed to find anything to help him. He finally comes up a book that seem helpful. It is titled, “How to Hug.” When he returns home he finds that he has bought Volume Nine of an encyclopedia! | |
— Leo Buscaglia | |
[That sounds exactly like something I would do… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Mueller Investigation Comparison To #LyingDonald |
2017 | #DonTheCon And Russian Collusion |
2016 | Balance The Truth |
2015 | Still Itchin’ |
2014 | One Life |
2013 | Reason Is Your Light |
2012 | Bordering Manhood |
2011 | Even Christ Couldn’t |
What Do Your Children See You Doing?
Posted in Education, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Quotes, Reading, Students on July 1, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. | |
— Leo Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Is #45 STILL Losing America |
2017 | We Sleep To Remember And We Sleep To Forget |
2016 | Useful Gift |
2015 | Who’s The Boss? |
2014 | What Counts In The Future |
2013 | Improper Sequence? |
2012 | Two Gems |
2011 | A True Test |
And The Same For Blogs And Posts
Posted in Quotes, tagged Books, Quotes, Salman Rushdie on June 23, 2019| Leave a Comment »
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. | |
–– Salman Rushdie | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | The End Of Asgard (For Now) |
I Learn The Hard Way Every Time | |
2017 | For Some |
2016 | Fragile And Explosive, Provocation And Privacy |
2015 | Bound Up |
2014 | Economic Engines |
2013 | Weren’t You Supposed To Be Reading? |
Absent Friends | |
Where I Stand | |
2012 | Hangin’ With His P’s |
Help Save | |
2011 | Six Facets Of Good Leadership |
A State With No Business
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Books, Films, Movies, Philosophy, Politics, Privacy, Quotes, Reading, The First Amendment, Thurgood Marshall on May 4, 2019| Leave a Comment »
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 | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Reflections |
2017 | Opposites Attract |
2016 | Completely Unreasonable |
Starting To Be A Reacher | |
2015 | Avengers Assemble II |
But If I Had To Perish Twice… | |
2014 | Turning Pages |
2013 | We Are All Accountable |
2012 | American Sign Language |
2011 | Happy Disproof |
2010 | Book Review – Managing Your Government Career |
Two Books
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Childhood Reading, Favorite Book, John Green, Marcel Proust, Philosophy, Quotes on April 1, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. | |
–– John Green | |
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. | |
–– Marcel Proust | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Prime Example = #45 |
2017 | Building On |
2016 | Dueling Heroes |
2015 | Remarkable Creations |
2014 | Measured Faith |
2013 | April Fool, n. |
2012 | Faith, Ego And Patriotism |
As It Happens | |
2011 | What Counts |
The Trouble With Bookstores
Posted in Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Books, Clothes, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, Food, Money, Philosophy, Quotes on December 26, 2018| 2 Comments »
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. | |
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Biased World View |
2016 | Control In The Age Of Entanglement |
2015 | Okay, Maybe Not Ceaseless |
2014 | Can Do |
2013 | Are You Helping? |
2012 | Inside All Truth Is A Vacuum |
2011 | So, Whom Are We Trying To Fool Then? |
Maps For Those Difficult Times
Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, tagged Answers, Books, Difficult Times, Echo Boy, Maps, Matt Haig, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, www.mylittlebookblog.com on October 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »
A book is a map …. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. … The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times. | |
― Matt Haig | |
From his book: “Echo Boy“ | |
Quote found on: mylittlebookblog.com | |
The specific post is located at: http://mylittlebookblog.com/2015/05/04/a-book-is-a-map-there-will-be-times-in-your-life-when-you-will-feel-lost-and-confused-the-way-back-to-yourself-is-through-reading-there-is-not-a-problem-in-existence-that-has-not-been/ | |
[Another of the many blogs I follow. It doesn’t seem to be updated as frequently as it used to be, but it still has some interesting posts and is worth a visit if you have some time. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | A True American Hero |
Or Desserts | |
2016 | What #AmnestyDon Is Really Afraid Of |
2015 | What Are You Doing? |
2014 | The Ideal Man |
2013 | Daring Ripples |
2012 | Evermore |
2011 | Unpredictable Opportunity |
2010 | Giants Fall In Game 2 (1 to 6) – Leave PA With 1-1 Split !! |
My Family Calls It Hoarding
Posted in Quotes, tagged Books, Hoarding, Jorge Luis Borges, Quotes, Sleep on August 26, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. | |
— Jorge Luis Borges | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Rogers’ Rules (Hexadecimal) |
2016 | But, It’s Such A Simple Mistake |
2015 | Crawl Towards The Light |
2014 | Sweet Songs |
2013 | The Wife Of An Ordinary Man |
2012 | Three Words |
2011 | Know Anyone Like This? |
2010 | Apoplexy?? |
When Breaking Up Is Hard To Do… | |
Sibling Awareness | |
I Resemble That Remark… (6!)
Posted in Humor, tagged Book Hoarding, Books, Humor, On Book Collecting, Tsundoku Sensei on August 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Tsundoku Sensei – (Japanese) a master at collecting unread books; someone who buys books and piles them on shelves, tables, and on the floor. | |
[I have two rooms with a full wall (each) filled with books – maybe – 1 / 10th of them read. In fairness, when we moved from the US to England back in the ’90’s, I got rid of more than six boxes of books I’d read and never went back to. (That’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it.) If only my days were more and the hours longer… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Try It, You’ll Like It |
2016 | Echo Chamber? |
2015 | Embrace The World Like A Lover |
2014 | Democratic Beliefs (for the next President) |
2013 | And Go Now! |
2012 | A World Safe For Diversity |
2011 | What If I Don’t Want To? |
2009 | Restful Sunday and a Movie About Boys’ Dolls (Action Figures) |
And Blog Posts, Too
Posted in Quotes, Writing, tagged Books, Ideas, Michael Cunningham, Paper, Quotes, Writing on June 17, 2018| 2 Comments »
One always has a better book in one’s mind than one can manage to get onto paper. | |
–– Michael Cunningham | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Just Doin’ It |
2016 | Definitely Not Bell Shaped |
2015 | Dreadful Pity |
2014 | Worse Than Useless |
2013 | Personal Prisons |
2012 | So, Not Yet Then |
2011 | Real Love |