This year I signed up for three challenges. Oh wait, no…I signed up for four, but after a few pages of Sookie, I backed out of the Sookie Stackhouse Challenge. But the other three…those I finished. Way back in January … Continue reading
I have officially completed a challenge, and for once in my life, I over-achieved! When I signed up for Carl’s R.I.P. Challenge, I was thinking I’d read two books, but I ended up reading 5. The Girl with the Dragon … Continue reading
For the first time, I’m going to join in the fun of the R.I.P. Challenge, hosted by Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings. Why this challenge, you ask? Because: As Carl himself says: “There are two simple goals to the R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril … 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
