Jill's 2011 50 Book Challenge

[photo: reddit.]

I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

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—	J.K. Rowling (via cerfs)

shades-of-glay:

Tooth and Claw (2006)

Sir Robert: Nevertheless, that creature won’t give up, Doctor, and we still don’t possess an actual weapon!
The Doctor: Oh, your dad got all the brains, didn’t he?
Rose Tyler: Being rude again!
The Doctor: Good, I meant that one. You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have - arm yourselves!

meggie-obrien:

So this just happened…. :/

I didn’t know Waldenbooks was on that list!!! Now I’m even more depressed…

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

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—	George Orwell (via wordpainting)

That awkward moment when you finish a good book and you have to face the reality of your boring life.

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.

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—	Nancy Pearl, Book Lust (via bookmania)