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“Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding.”
― Fish Whistle: Little Short Essays by Daniel Pinkwater
― Fish Whistle: Little Short Essays by Daniel Pinkwater
“Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team.”
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“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”
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“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.”
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“The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and the Russian -- all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was approaching 50 per cent. Literacy had a profound effect on the peasant mind and community. It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.”
― A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
― A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
Alisa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
605 books
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21 friends
344 books
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79 friends
1,584 books
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85 friends
1,517 books
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12 friends
1,082 books
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54 friends
1,381 books
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60 friends
10,061 books
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3,313 friends
150 books
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197 friends
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