Are you participating in the Dewey’s Books Reading Challenge? If so, than this post is for you. If not, go join and then come back and this post can be for you, too. The most important list of all During … Continue reading
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2007 341 pages Dewey had damn good taste in books. This is the second book I’ve read for the Dewey’s Books Challenge, and the fourth book I’ve read this year that she reviewed on her site (neither … Continue reading
Looking for Alaska John Green 2005 221 pages This is my first book for the Dewey’s Books Reading Challenge, and it was totally awesome (do I sound like I’m reverting to teenager-hood? I don’t mean to.). So awesome, in fact, … Continue reading
I said I wasn’t going to do any challenges in 2009. But then Chris came up with this marvelous idea. 1. Pick one book from each of the 6 years that Dewey has archives of. You can access her archives … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
