Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:

I decided there’s two types of people in the world — people who are meant to live their life to the fullest, and people who are meant to read about those people. I’m the latter.
~Tim Hobert

A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
~William Styron

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
~Pearsall Smith

EndQuote:
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
~Author unknown

 

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Exercise Prompt for 07/26:  family

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

For what’s a tale of love to love itself?
What song of love can e’er be half so sweet
As happiness of lovers when they meet?
I think that Shakespeare would have given thrice his glory
To have been sole hero of one woman’s story.
Been more than willing with poet-crown to part
To reign throned monarch in one woman’s heart.
~C Allen Clarke

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
~Voltaire

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Posted from the Grove

Do not read good books–life is too short for that–read only the best.
~Ernest Dimnet

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
~Henry David Thoreau

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.
~Josh Jameson

There is no thief worse than a bad book.
~Italian Proverb

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~David Paul Kirkpatrick:  Writers – Take a Drive, Unlock the Magic
https://writingcooperative.com/take-a-drive-to-unlock-some-powerful-magic-8bff24800e47

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~Christina M Ward:  12 Point Checklist for Poetry Editing
https://medium.com/fiddleheads-floss/the-12-point-checklist-for-poetry-editing-29b902bbc74b

 

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
~Bern Williams

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
~Nicholson Baker

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
~Stephen King

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
~Charlaine Harris

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
~Mark Twain

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VIDEO:

Perdu reflected that it was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people.
~Nina George

I love all bookstores. Chains, independents, big, small. Once you walk into a bookstore, time stands still.
~Alec Baldwin

I’m a bookaholic on the road to recovery. Ha, not really. I’m on the road to the bookstore.
~Author unknown

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~Reg Clarkinia:  Book Zoo   (3:59)   neighborhood bookstore realized
https://vimeo.com/12326391

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~Tejal Gala:  The Egyptian Book of the Dead   (4:32)   short, lucid, animated course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yv_MXNYbAo

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~The Book of Eli:  fight scene   (4:20)   violent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yke3ur99P2g

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~Suggest Me A Book:  Memes for bookworms   (9:54)   finger on pause button
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUY8I5dIwho

 

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Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
~Lemony Snicket

We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them. Don’t sleep with people who don’t read!
~John Waters

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Romance novels: All of the passion, none of the herpes.
~Internet meme

Books were safer than other people anyway.
~Neil Gaiman

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MUSIC:

The title of a book fills the place of the face in a human being.
~Gustav Boehm

Titles of Books: Decoys to catch purchasers.
~Paul Chatfield

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~Cover Story:  The Book of Love   (2:09)   parkside doo wop

-same title, something else-

~Will Champlin:  The Book of Love   (3:49)   prosaic love poetically, tunefully

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~Booker T & the MG’s:  Green Onions   (2:54)   instrumental, surreal dance

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~Dax:  Book Of Relevations   (3:55)   a rap on rELIgion

 

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Do not read good books–life is too short for that–read only the best.
~Ernest Dimnet

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
~Henry David Thoreau

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.
~Josh Jameson

There is no thief worse than a bad book.
~Italian Proverb

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
~Henry Ward Beecher

No other decoration is needed in a room lined with books… Their varied colors make a design as rich as an Oriental rug.
~Althea Warren

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
~Anna Quindlen

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You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
~Pat Conroy

Take no heed of her… She reads a lot of books.
~Jasper Horde

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And then sometimes a sudden chill doth strike
My heart with very horror, and I shrink
Away from their dull touch, shudd’ring to think
How much of human life that, vampire-like,
These books have sucked beneath their leathern wings,
How brains have broken and frail bodies bent
To feed with human blood these bloodless things…
~Charles Washington Coleman

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
~Jeanette Winterson

What wild desires, what restless torments seize
The hapless man, who feels the book-disease…
~John Ferriar

A bibliomaniac might properly be called an insane or crazy bibliophile. It is, however, a harmless insanity.
~Henry H Harper

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@Writers Platform

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a
book.
~Henry David Thoreau

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”
~Helen Exley

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.
~John Aikin

 

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Exercise Prompt:  book

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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
~Bertrand Russell

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
~Haruki Murakami

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.
~Author unknown

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to
fight a battle.
~Sutton Elbert Griggs

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~BarTalk:

The Library

How deep the country, how wide the land
Long collated shelves collection of Books
Set goal for eternity long since planned
Browse every corner, the dark hidden nooks
Plumb the profound depths, Library of Man

I have watched from the corners back of the room
Gazed longingly on beauty, grazed on the music
Desired to know every bride and be every groom
Embracing the comic, redeeming the tragic
Knowing the magic and doom watching love bloom

Try the spurned products in every failed store
Know the real reasons of sin apparently ad-libbed
Attend the performance of lost musical scores
Retrieve every word of every burned manuscript
Wanting the full Memory of Man, Biography’s whore

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Paging Life

Life plays out as a journey traveled but once
As prince or villain, mensch, or the village dunce
Yet worlds and wonders abound to be seen
Stark realities and fantasy feed a starved curiosity
Wild lives and surprises wait other side that brook
Cross the short bridge to adventure, open a book

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Alibi

I would do no evil
Could do no wrong
Could hurt no one
Not betray someone
Not be mistook
And jailed a crook
If quarantined
Or found between
The hardbound covers
Of a book

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Perspective

Tho I will not swear but when I look
And raise my eyes from reading books
Tho not something I could ever prove
I’d vow forsooth my horizon moved

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5-7-5-7-7

elections pending
gambled on fear making book
lost the vote bad bet
last chance for the Resident
large fines hard time wait a crook

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5-7-5 x 4

did I miss a page
else she in anger tore it
tear stained book of love
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good books, too short lives
wry smile, dry eyes learning how
to say it, goodbye
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ancient words and thoughts
old bookstores smell of wisdom
dust but not mildew
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lofty lives killed off
a forest died for these books
thankless sacrifice

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Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
~Stephen King

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
~Harold Kushner

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
~John Green

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
~Thomas Helm

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
~Paul Sweeney

A good book has no ending.
~R D Cumming

 

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