The Memory of Love Aminatta Forna 2010 445 pages ******************** This is the first book I’ve read from the newly created Shelf of Doom. And despite it’s slow start, I’m pretty happy with it. (Except for that ending…holy crap people! … Continue reading
The TBR Pile Challenge is hosted by Adam at Roof Beam Reader. The goal is to finally read 12 books from your “to be read” pile (within 12 months). Each of the 12 books must have been on your bookshelf or “To … 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
