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Good afternoon, everyone! It's such an accurate description of what reading a truly good author feels like. Not just absorbing their ideas, but being carried along by a particular voice and way of seeing.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, lovely people! There's a wry and affectionate truth to this one that anyone who reads a lot will recognise. Books give us the gift of meaning and coherence in a way that life itself rarely bothers to, even when we know it's a kind of beautiful fiction.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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'The lectures offered a viable counterpoint to the repeated interrogations the men are forced to endure. His lectures were an act of resistance, stimulating the recovery and retention of personal memories that could protect and defend his colleagues from the attempt to deprive each of them of a sense of self.' -- from 'Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp' by Józef Czapski, trans. by Eric Karpeles
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Good morning, wonderful people! This is one of the most honest things anyone has ever said about why reading matters, and it never gets less true no matter how many times you come back to it. The hunger to live more than one life and see through more than one pair of eyes is about as human as it gets.
Have a Thoughtful Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! If you pay attention, you can almost feel the almost imperceptible drawing in that August does in its final weeks, when the light changes its angle just slightly, the evenings arrive a little sooner than they did, and the year quietly gathers itself for what comes next.
Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good afternoon, lovely people! I think that's a lovely way of putting it, because the best books don't just inform you but change the way you feel about things. They can expand your capacity for understanding and empathy in ways you don't always notice until much later.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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"Even as he was thinking this, he felt his legs and his head going terribly light, and had a strange feeling as though he were floating upside down in the air. The next thing he knew, it was he who had become a “cloudhead.” Whether carried by the wind or moving on his own, he was drifting gently through the air, going nowhere in particular." -- from the story 'The Man of the Hills' by Kenji Miyazawa, trans. by John Bester in the collection 'Once and Forever'
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"I’d been hearing rumors to this effect, but then a team of top-tier researchers at Oxford and Cambridge universities released a peer-reviewed report that found that generative AI, by virtue of the way it’s trained on recursively generated interconnecting data, will eventually degrade until the output is a worthless distortion of reality. As some commentators are saying, AI will eat itself before it does too much else." -- from 'I Eat the Stars' by Sarah Wilson
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Good morning, wonderful people! This is such a precise and particular way of describing what reading does, that quality of being able to turn an idea over slowly and carefully in the space a good book creates, without the noise and interruption that makes careful thinking so difficult everywhere else.
Have a Thoughtful Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, friends! There's a reason August has always had a slightly feverish reputation: it's too hot, too bright, and too full of itself. Yet, there's something irresistible about it too, that sense of the summer burning itself out magnificently before it finally agrees to let go.
Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, lovely people! There's something to this idea that the simple act of sitting down with a book connects you to something much larger than yourself, a long and unbroken thread of human curiosity and imagination that stretches back further than we can properly imagine.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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'Mozart, though, was sort of a last resort, a cure-all that calmed his anxiety, removed the ugliness of the everyday from his soul, and allowed him to enter the pure world of ideas.' - from 'The Hanged Man of Conakry' by Jean-Christophe Rufin, trans. Alison Anderson
#SundaySentence #BookQuote #ReadingJournal #books #reading #bookstodon
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"For a man with a.dick-shaped rocket, Jeff Bezos sure has an abiding hatred of our kidneys."
- Enshittification by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
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Good morning, everyone! There really is nothing quite like the smell of an old book-that particular combination of paper and time and all the hands that have held it before yours. It's one of those small, specific pleasures that no digital version has ever managed to replicate and probably never will.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, all! Tomorrow is Gŵyl Awst and the turn of the season is already in the air-that first almost imperceptible shift in the light that tells you the year is moving even when the days still feel long and warm. It's a good evening to step outside and mark the moment quietly, however that looks for you.
Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, wonderful people! Loving books is one of the quieter and more reliable pleasures in life. On a Thursday at the end of July, with the week nearly done and the weekend nearly here, it feels like a very good moment to be grateful for it.
Have a Thoughtful Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good afternoon, friends! There's a very old kind of wisdom in this one, that sense of the land and the water as something restorative and real. With summer still very much with us it feels like a good day to find your way to something wild and open if you possibly can.
Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good afternoon, everyone! It's a deceptively simple idea that opens up the more you think about it, because whether you're reading or writing or simply paying attention to the language around you, words chosen carefully and placed well have a weight and a reach that's easy to underestimate.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, lovely people! It's the start of a new week. Do you believe in this idea, that the stories we're drawn to tend to reflect something back at us that we might not have found any other way? And that what we choose to read says rather a lot about who we are and who we're becoming?
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, all! It's a thought that feels particularly true when the week has been long and what you really want is something reliable and uncomplicated waiting for you at home. A good book is almost always exactly that.
Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, wonderful people! This is such an accurate description of what it feels like to finish a book that's really got hold of you; that particular combination of satisfaction and depletion that comes from having been somewhere else entirely for however many hours. I think it's one of the best feelings reading can give you.
Have a Thoughtful Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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"We took him fair and square!"
"Two knights against one," Palomides said, "is neither fair nor square. It is, at best, triangular."- The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
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Good morning, my lovelies! It really is that kind of month, the sort where the days seem to stretch out at both ends. Even the light feels slower and more deliberate. There's nothing wrong with letting yourself be a little lazy and golden along with everything else.
Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, everyone! Ray Bradbury always had a way of describing what books do that made it sound both entirely ordinary and completely extraordinary at the same time. This one in particular captures something true about the way a really good story can make the world feel more coherent and connected than it did before.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good afternoon, lovely people! There's a real and practical truth to this one that anyone who reads regularly will recognise, that a good book is one of the most reliable places to go when the world feels like a bit much. Today feels like a very reasonable day to be reminded of that.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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PS - Sorry I'm late with this one today; it was therapy day.
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Good morning, all! There's a very good case to be made for doing as little as possible on a Friday in mid-July. If that happens to involve a comfortable chair, something cold to drink, and a book you've been meaning to get to for a while, then that sounds very much like the right kind of laziness to me.
Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, wonderful people! This is one of those quotes that gets to the heart of it very simply and without any fuss. Underneath all the other reasons we give for reading, that's usually the truest one, the sense of recognition and connection that a good book can give you when you need it most.
Have a Thoughtful Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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“In cozy mysteries, the sweetest places hide the sharpest secrets.”
Sunshine on the sidewalks. A youth orchestra tuning up across the hall. ☀️🏡🎶
And then—one wrong note that changes everything.
If you love your mysteries with warmth, wit, and a Florida breeze, you’re in the right seat.
Tag a friend who always guesses the culprit by chapter five. 😄👇
#CozyMystery #BookQuote #MysteryQuote #CozyReads #FloridaFiction #WomenWhoRead #BookishLife #ReaderCommunity
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Good morning, my lovelies! July has a way of producing exactly this kind of unexpected pleasure, an afternoon that turns into something you hadn't planned, a walk that goes further than you intended, or a book you picked up on a whim that turns out to be exactly what you needed.
Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙