From Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes By Lauren Child

Readers are the best weightlifters, then.

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.”

— Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

In fact, it's the best way of living life

Strolling aimlessly in a bookshop is selfcare

The bean jar

Writing about a child rapist did not make Vladimir Nabokov a child rapist.

Writing about an authoritarian theocracy did not make Margaret Atwood an authoritarian theocrat.

Writing about adultery did not make Leo Tolstoy an adulterer.

Writing about a ghost did not make Toni Morrison a ghost.

Writing about a murderer did not make Fyodor Dostoevsky a murderer.

Writing about a teenage addict did not make Isabel Allende a teenage addict.

Writing about dragons and ice zombies did not make George R.R. Martin either of those things.

Writing about rich heiresses, socially awkward bachelors, and cougar widows did not make Jane Austen any of those things.

Writing about people who can control earthquakes did not make N.K. Jemisin able to control earthquakes.

Writing about your favorite characters and/or ships in situations that you choose does not make you a bad person.

It’s a shame that in this day and age these things need to be said.

I mean, a fictional widowed lawyer who reads a lot and advocates for racial justice is sexy as hell

atticus finch is a dilf

"We read to get lost, to forget the hard times we're living in, and we read to remember those who came before us who lived through something harder."

– Jacqueline Woodson, YA fiction writer, from her TED talk: What reading slowly taught me about writing

reading alone in your room at sunset with your windows open in summer while the wind caresses your skin is probably the closest thing we have to a cure for the human condition

Trivia Tuesday #3

Bookworm vocabulary: Abibliophobia is the fear of running out of reading material. Bibliosmia is the love of the smell of old books. Tsundoku (Japanese) means to let reading materials pile up in one's home and never read them.

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” ― Ernest Hemingway