Book Club Librarian: Weekend Words

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Saturday, September 14, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life.

Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life."

~ Alice Hoffman, American author

Read this and other Alice Hoffman quotes online at BrainyQuote.

A list of the author's books is online at alicehoffman.com.

Catherine
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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"I've always associated the moment of writing

with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward."

In Memoriam

~ Seamus Heaney, Irish poet

April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013

Read this and other Seamus Heaney quotes online at BrainyQuote.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;

the pessimist stares at the thorns,

oblivious of the rose."

~ Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet and author (1883-1931)

Read this and other Kahlil Gibran quotes online at The Quotations Page.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting.

So . . . get on your way."

~ Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, American author and illustrator (1904-1991)

Read this and other Dr. Seuss quotes online at The Quotations Page.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

~ Ray Bradbury, American author and poet (1920-2012)

Read this and other Ray Bradbury quotes online at Brainy Quote.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"Language is wine upon the lips."

~ Virginia Woolf, British author (1882-1941)

Read this and other Virginia Woolf quotes online at Brainy Quote.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells

us the truth about its author."

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton, English author (1874-1936)

Read this and other G.K. Chesterton quotes online at The Quotations Page.

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Saturday Shorts/Weekend Words

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"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it.

It is like falling in love."

~ Christopher Morley, American author and journalist (1890-1957)

Read this and other Christopher Morley quotes online at The Quotations Page.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Saturday Shorts: Weekend Words

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"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps,

but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment

is scarcely perceptible."

~Virginia Woolf, British author (1882-1941)

Read this and other Virginia Woolf quotes online at BrainyQuote.

Catherine

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Saturday Shorts: Weekend Words

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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:

this is the ideal life."

~ Mark Twain, American writer (1835-1910)

Read this and other Mark Twain quotes online at BrainyQuote.

Catherine

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Saturday Shorts: Weekend Words

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"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness,

leading out into the expanding universe."

~ Madeleine L'Engle, American author (1918-2007)

View the Madeleine L'Engle book list

(source: http://www.madeleinelengle.com/)

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Saturday Shorts: Weekend Words

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"Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon . . .

the two most beautiful words in the English language."

-- Henry James, American author (1843-1916)

Read this and other summer quotes online at The Quotations Page.

Wishing you a wonderful, memorable summer.

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Saturday Shorts: Weekend Words

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"O Day of days when we can read!

The reader and the book,

either without the other is naught."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and poet (1803-1882)

Read this and other Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes online at BrainyQuote.

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Saturday Shorts: Weekend Words

A thought for Memorial Day weekend . . .

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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

~John F. Kennedy, U.S. President

(1917-1963)

Read this and other John F. Kennedy quotes online at BrainyQuote.