Which is your favorite banned or challenged book from 2013-2014?
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I want to read crate-fulls of old used, bent, wrinkly paged books. With the bindings all creased, and the pages earmarked. I want to know that when I’m reading a book someone else enjoyed it before me.
impulseandinstincts (via bookporn)
Does the way we acquire books have an impact on the way we read them? A lot has been written about the sentimentality surrounding books; cherished books from childhood, books given as love tokens, handed down from our parents, to our own children, the books that we would save from fires, and launch into space for aliens to read. But what about the sad stories? The books abandoned on park benches, collections inherited from a decreased friend, those sold off by libraries because no one wanted to read them, and the books that we scavenge when bookshops go bust?
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like returning home again.
Jo March, Little Women (via bookporn)
She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.
Rachel Cusk, Arlington Park (via bookporn)
There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Marina Tsvetaeva, Pushkin and Pugachev (1937) (via bookpornographist) (via bookporn)
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life. (via bookporn)
There are books full of great writing that don’t have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story… don’t be like the book-snobs who won’t do that. Read sometimes for the words—the language. Don’t be like the play-it-safers who won’t do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.
Stephen King (via bookporn)