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Reflections
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Children are used to making an effort to understand. They are asked for this effort every hour of every school day and, though they may not make the effort willingly, they at least expect it.
“Books are filled with human thoughts and feelings. People suffering, people who are sad or happy, laughing with joy. By reading their words and their stories, by experiencing them together, we learn about the hearts and minds of other people besides ourselves. Thanks to books, it’s possible to learn not only about the people around us every day, but people living in totally different worlds.”
― The Cat Who Saved Books
― The Cat Who Saved Books
“Scholars who at bottom do little nowadays but thumb books ultimately lose entirely their capacity to think for themselves. When they don’t thumb, they don’t think.”
― The Cat Who Saved Books
― The Cat Who Saved Books
“If you find it difficult it’s because it contains something that is new to you. Every difficult book offers us a brand-new challenge.”
― The Cat Who Saved Books
― The Cat Who Saved Books
“Reading isn’t only for pleasure or entertainment. Sometimes you need to examine the same lines deeply, read the same sentences over again. Sometimes you sit there, head in hands, only progressing at a painstakingly slow pace. And the result of all this hard work and careful study is that suddenly you’re there and your field of vision expands. It’s like finding a great view at the end of a long climbing trail.”
― The Cat Who Saved Books
― The Cat Who Saved Books
David’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
375 books
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62 friends
589 books
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34 friends
5 books
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2 friends
208 books
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6 friends
47 books
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12 friends
13 books
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40 friends
1 book
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76 friends
192 books
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7 friends
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