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First of all, our nation’s schools are wonderfully open, in the democratic sense of the word. If anything in our nation is of the people, and for the people, it is our schools. Anyone who is an engaged parent knows a great deal about
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“War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns. But I don’t suppose that’s the kind of victory you boys mean for me to talk on.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― Areopagitica
― Areopagitica
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Clockwork Angel
― Clockwork Angel
“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― The Uncommon Reader
― The Uncommon Reader
“A long time back, she thought, I dreamed a dream, and was enjoying it so much when someone wakened me, and that day I was born. And now? Now, let me see...She cast her mind back. Where was I? she thought. Ninety years...how to take up the thread and the pattern of that lost dream again? She put out a small hand. There...yes, that was it. She smiled. Deeper in the warm snow hill she turned her head upon her pillow. That was better. Now, yes, now she saw it shaping in her mind quietly, and with a serenity like a sea moving along an endless and self-refreshing shore. Now she let the old dream touch and lift her from the snow and drift her above the scarce-remembered bed.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
Ms. Hanley's Book Club
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— last activity Jan 11, 2017 03:05PM
A place for Ms. Hanley's 9th grade English class can share books their reading and thoughts on the book we are currently reading. ...more
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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— last activity 10 hours, 28 min ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Orange County Library System (FL)
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— last activity Nov 12, 2025 04:42AM
Find out what we are reading at OCLS! Discover OCLS book clubs, events and more!
Lakeland Public Library
— 136 members
— last activity Sep 02, 2022 01:20PM
Lakeland reads and this is the place to connect and share that joy! Join us in exploring the endless titles, authors, and genres we love. Oh, and don ...more
Mount TBR 2017
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— last activity May 02, 2022 08:37PM
This group is for those who would like to participate in the 2017 edition of the Mount TBR Reading Challenge which I am hosting on my blog My Reader's ...more
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