> "Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." - Virginia Woolf #ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.…
> “I always have a certain pile of books that never changes. I have to replace all of them at some point because they’ve gotten completely decrepit. Joan Didion, ‘The White Album.’ Ian Frazier, ‘Great Plains.’ ‘Giving Good Weight,’ John McPhee.” https://t.co/P5Y1J8SUe5 — The Paris Review (@parisreview)…
> Sign me up. https://t.co/kxxqBNH9q9 — Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) December 15, 2017 [https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/941676026580660225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > Iceland has my favorite holiday tradition of all: Jolabokaflod, or the "Christmas Book Flood," where people give each other books on Christmas Eve…
> 'The purchase of books could be a good idea if one could also buy the time to read them' - Schopenhauer https://t.co/R8U8rzAnJh #blackfriday [https://twitter.com/hashtag/blackfriday?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/ew1Rmgh8Kg [https://t.co/ew1Rmgh8Kg] — The School of Life (@TheSchoolOfLife) November…
> It's fun to explore the places you read about in books. @placinglit [https://twitter.com/placinglit] maps those places out: https://t.co/14mfOGVVQL pic.twitter.com/HUHFE0OLRG [https://t.co/HUHFE0OLRG] — Lifehacker (@lifehacker) February 8, 2016 [https://twitter.com/lifehacker/status/696770520843423744] I can't…
> "To read a book is to be in the slow zone of the human" Acclaimed writer #JunotDiaz [https://twitter.com/hashtag/JunotDiaz?src=hash] on q: http://t.co/q7YuNGALPN pic.twitter.com/Tvrd6Oxzg6 [http://t.co/Tvrd6Oxzg6] — q (@cbcradioq) April 24, 2015 [https://twitter.com/cbcradioq/…
> When you hold a (real) book in your hands, the molecules in your body rejoice. —Maira Kalman via Explore [http://explore.noodle.com/post/102425437938/when-you-hold-a-real-book-in-your-hands-the] In the same post, Rebecca Solnit's "a book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.” is…
Over at The Atlantic, Juliet Lapidos says she finishes every novel she starts to read [http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/stop-making-excuses-and-finish-that-book/381795/?single_page=true] and takes on The Rule of Fifty [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/tag/rule-of-fifty/] > “The most common defense of book-dropping I hear…