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“Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them, they are never asleep; if you are ignorant, they never laugh; if you make mistakes, they never chide. They give to all who ask of them, and never demand payment. ... All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, if God hadn't provided us with the remedy of books.”
― Pagan's Scribe
― Pagan's Scribe
“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.”
― A Short History of Myth / The Penelopiad / Weight / Dream Angus
― A Short History of Myth / The Penelopiad / Weight / Dream Angus
“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”
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“I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be very intimate. Perhaps you know this feeling yourself? The sense that you're having an intellectual exchange with the author, following his or her train thought and you accompany each other for weeks on end.”
― Signatura 400
― Signatura 400
“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle of an unrumored continent. I love the large minority of the writers on my shelves who have struggled with words and thoughts and, by my lights, have lost the struggle. All together they are my community, the creators of the very idea of books, poetry, and extended narratives, and of the amazing human conversation that has taken place across the millennia, through weal and woe, over the heads of interest and utility.”
― When I Was a Child I Read Books
― When I Was a Child I Read Books
Kim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
17,668 books
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375 friends
1,108 books
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68 friends
320 books
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126 friends
1,307 books
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107 friends
175 books
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45 friends
459 books
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80 friends
539 books
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37 friends
2,863 books
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367 friends
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