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- Joined
- Apr 25, 2013
- Real Name
- Geraldine
- About My Library
My library - dead tree books that I currently own
Read but Unowned - mostly library books
Ebooks - my Nook and library ebooks
Favorite genres - history, historical fiction, books about books, nature, science and classic literature
75 Book Challenge for 2015
"Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. They seem to tell you that they have got something inside their covers that will be good for you, and that they are willing and desirous to impart to you. Value them much."
-William Gladstone
"The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence. It is a good thing in itself; a possession to be thankful for, to rejoice over, to be proud of, and to sing praises for. With this love in his heart no man is ever poor, ever without friends, or the means of making his life lovely, beautiful, and happy."
-John Alfred Langford
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses - as a poet once said - erected in the sea of time."
-Barbara Tuchman
"The books are advancing silently, innocently through my house. There is no way I can stop them."
-Carlos Maria Dominguez, "The House of Paper"- Location
- Buffalo, New York
- Currently Reading
- Favorite Authors
- Douglas Adams, Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, John M. Barry, Willa Cather, Pema Chödrön, Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Dunnett, Allan W. Eckert, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rumer Godden, Thor Hanson, Sue Hubbell, Helen Humphreys, Kazuo Ishiguro, Eowyn Ivey, Barbara Kingsolver, Elizabeth Kolbert, Erik Larson, William Longgood, Megan Marshall, Daniel Mason, Robert K. Massie, Daphne du Maurier, Sharyn McCrumb, Marta McDowell, Bill McKibben, James A. Michener, Ogden Nash, Mary Oliver, Sharon Kay Penman, Richard Powers, Terry Pratchett, Annie Proulx, David Quammen, Kenneth Roberts, Christina Rossetti, Karen Russell, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Mary Stewart, Mark Twain, Edward O. Wilson, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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