Word Painting

Children are made readers / a beautiful poster from Etsy http://ebks.to/137rYcK

Indeed.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

Robert Frost

No two persons ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Always be reading.

observando

bibliolectors:

Each book has its reader / Cada libro tiene su lector (ilustración de Silja Goetz)

bibliocolors.blogspot.com

morfaun

And I enjoy starting and finishing as many books as possible.

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Always be reading.

left-nut

nationalbook:

The 2012 National Book Awards are one week from today! We’ll be streaming the event live at www.nationalbook.org on Wednesday, November 14, beginning at approximately 7:15pm. Have some friends over for an Oscars-party-esque, literary soiree and cheer for the Winners as they’re announced! More info about the Awards and this year’s Finalists can be found here.

literatureismyutopia:

Upstairs at the Griffin Bookstore by Jonathan Lurie on Flickr.

Nice!

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chicagopubliclibrary:

America’s Facebook Generation Is Reading Strong

Taken from NPR:

In what may come as a pleasant surprise to people who fear the Facebook generation has given up on reading — or, at least, reading anything longer than 140 characters — a new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project reveals the prominent role of books, libraries and technology in the lives of young readers, ages 16 to 29.

Kathryn Zickuhr, the study’s main author, joins NPR’s David Greene to discuss the results.

Click here to read the full article.

I am surprised by this.

thischarmingman1981:

The books we need, are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation, a book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka