Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a
books
Long ago now
I am searching for my feelings
through shelves of dusty books
can’t help but feel I’ve left them
in some forgotten ancient nooks
as if an author long before me
captured my emotions in his day
and saved them in fine poetry
for future me to find someway
Well lit
A school library is the brightest beacon of youthful hope.
A public library is the brightest beacon of community hope.
A local library is the brightest beacon of global hope.
Blue stockings
Book lovers are better under the covers.
Audio books
“I just don’t get how you can listen to a book. There’s no fonts to look at, there’s no papers to touch — they’ve removed two of the senses. And the truth is, sometimes I lick them, so that’s three.”
—Brick Heck, The Middle, “Pitch Imperfect,” 2017, written by
Antennae
Read instead of watch TV?
Now there’s a novel idea!
Biblioinsomnia
Up late with books, reading in bed—
Up early with coffee, extra lead.
Book-sticky
“Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.”
—Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, 2006
Saving books
I’ve been saving books for all these years, and they’ve been saving me for my
Storied
Books talk to you for an afternoon. Literature speaks for generations.
Lost & fined
Library fines are my favorite charitable donation.
Fees fines fo fun
If you haven’t owed a library fine at least once in your life, you’re not
Man forbid
What’s in the raging flame
of banned books burning?
Knowledge, truth, learning;
courage, freedom, yearning.