Amanda

Amanda’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (2398)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (3188)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
read-to-my-kids‎ (2351)
rockin-illustrations‎ (860)
picture-books-2016‎ (552)
favorite-children-s-illustrators‎ (519)
playgroup‎ (495)
picture-books-2017‎ (455)
favorite-children-s-authors‎ (407)
books-i-own‎ (290)

books-that-make-us-laugh‎ (276)
picture-books-2018‎ (251)
burke-s-favorites‎ (230)
books-i-d-recommend‎ (223)
picture-books-2019‎ (209)
books-for-bedtime‎ (190)
books-as-gifts‎ (183)
picture-books-2020‎ (165)
nonfiction-picture-books‎ (144)
fantastic-middle-grade‎ (141)
suggestion-for-emery‎ (139)
wish-list‎ (135)

christmas-time-is-here‎ (130)
board-books‎ (120)
graphic-novels‎ (118)
read-in-2016‎ (117)
books-about-the-basics‎ (116)
read-in-2020‎ (115)
read-in-2014‎ (104)
read-in-2017‎ (97)
read-in-2015‎ (82)
read-in-2019‎ (82)
books-about-siblings‎ (79)
read-as-a-family‎ (79)

read-in-2018‎ (76)
maren-s-favorites‎ (69)
read-in-2021‎ (60)
emery-is-reading‎ (57)
books-about-books‎ (54)
books-about-school‎ (52)
books-about-daddy‎ (48)
family-favorites‎ (48)
halloween‎ (46)
adding-to-the-family‎ (37)
early-readers‎ (31)
mmd-challenge-2017‎ (26)

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“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading

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“By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

tags: caffeine, reading, writing

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“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: books, feelings, reading, thoughts

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“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, libraries, library, reading

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