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What Kind of Bookmarks Do You Use?

I am interested in what you use as a bookmark. I have a basic one from the library and I use it until it wears out. The bookmarks I use don’t have any special qualities or significance. They are simply functional.

I read one book at a time. Some of you read several books at once, so you will need a lot of markers. Do you use certain ones for specific purposes? Do you get them from the library or cheap ones from bookstores or do you actually go out and buy them?

Should be interesting to read your responses.

 
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Posted by on January 28, 2012 in Books, Reading

 

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Used Book Stores – Where Treasure Hunters Play

 
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Posted by on January 23, 2012 in Books, Reading

 

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Teaching Children to Love Reading

I wanted to share an excellent article with you that will help you instill a love for reading in your children. Personally, books were a constant companion of my childhood. I can’t remember not reading. I have loved it passionately for as long as I can remember.

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Reading helps us in every area of our lives. It helps us become successful in school and later in our careers and it helps us grow as individuals by either teaching us new information or by allowing us to step into someone else’s shoes. Reading can also help us become more compassionate and empathetic, as well as give us pure enjoyment and relaxation.

Instilling a love of reading in your child is one of the best gifts you can give them in their life. Here are 11 ways to do just that.

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Posted by on December 29, 2011 in Books, Reading

 

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Share the Love of Books in 2012

 
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Posted by on December 29, 2011 in Books, Reading

 

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What Would be Your Perfect Home Library?

 
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Posted by on December 29, 2011 in Books, Library, Reading

 

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Have to Keep Reading…

Great novels are jealous lovers that consume you & won’t let you go. You read in the car, bathroom, the park and the office — everywhere you can snatch a moment to spend with them. Bleary-eyed, you march on, hand in hand, until the end.

Then, you miss them when they are gone, knowing you still have the memories to sustain you on long days when the pain of separation becomes unbearable.

That is, until another one bats its eyes and pulls you into its spell…

 
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Posted by on October 18, 2011 in Books, Reading

 

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The Love of Libraries

The library houses wealth, like a bank. Yet, it needs neither vault nor armed guards. Its currency is available for all. A library is like nowhere else on earth. It has its own smell, texture and coziness.

The public libraries of our day are one-part books and nine parts electronics. When the internet is down, the building is empty. The books sit alone and unloved.

For bibliophiles, the library is sacred. We spend hours, captivated, at the knowledge at our fingertips and we cringe at those who find the experience painful and boring. We shake our heads at their ignorance and lack of decorum. They fail to realize that being bored in a library says more about them than they care to admit.

My romance with libraries took form in elementary school. I began reading these orange hardback biographies and read every one they had. I soon read all of the SRA lessons and plowed on through mysteries. I was smitten.

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Posted by on August 15, 2010 in Books, Writing

 

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Writer’s Thoughts 8/5/10

“A writer’s voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer’s voice is the stroke of an artist’s brush—is the thumbprint of her whole person—her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms” [Patricia Lee Gauch].

“A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious” [Walker Percy].

“Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day” [Ray Bradbury].

“I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms 39 times before I was satisfied” [Ernest Hemingway].

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Excellent analysis of Dostoevsky’s, “The Gambler.” In doing so, teaches some good lessons about plot development.

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