Category Archives: reading

A Refuge From All the Miseries of Life

Posted on November 23, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. William Somerset Maugham, Books and You, reblogged from http://www.awesomebookquotes.tumblr.com

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Reading

Posted on August 27, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. Mason Cooley from “Country Living” reblogged from Madison Young – Pinterest

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Bookworms

Posted on August 17, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

People who love reading are often called bookworms – but that’s the wrong way around. It’s not you that worms into a book; it is books that worm into you. Amanda Craig, quoted in the “Independent” (UK), re-quoted in “The … Continue reading →

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Guilt-Free Relaxations

Posted on August 4, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

Of all the human relaxations which are free from guilt, none so dignified as reading. Egerton Brydges

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How To Destroy a Culture

Posted on August 2, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury

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A Great Book

Posted on August 2, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. William Styron

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Reading & Thinking

Posted on August 1, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

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