Fiction...

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

~ Jessamyn West

Read the best books...

"Read the best books first,or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

~ Henry David Thoreau

Books Are...

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

~ Henry David Thoreau

The more you read...

"The more that you read,the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

~ Dr. Seuss

Books Are...

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors,and the most patient of teachers."

~ Charles W. Eliot

Rare Intellect

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect,we should ask him what books he reads."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mental Exercise

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

~ Joseph Addison

Books are...

"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand,and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors,that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."

~ Oswald Chambers

Books

"I cannot live without books."

~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Town Library

"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."

~ Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007)

Cradle of Democracy

"There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration."

~ Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

Courts of Last Resort? No Never

"Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became the courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries."

~ Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)

Community Treasure Chests

"Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card."

~ First Lady Laura Bush

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God By Francis Chan

I received a Wowbrary email about a book my library recently purchased and I can't wait to read it. I ask myself these very questions and can't wait to read what this author has to say...

Content of Email:

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God By Francis Chan. From David C. Cook. (110 reviews)

'Sometimes I feel like when I make decisions that are remotely biblical, people who call themselves Christians are the first to criticize and say I'm crazy, that I'm taking the Bible too literally, or that I'm not thinking about my family's well-being. . . When people gladly sacrifice their time or comfort or home, it is obvious that they trust in the promises of God. Why is it that the story of someone who has actually done what Jesus commands resonates deeply with us, but we then assume we could never do anything so radical or intense?


Check out the book's website for more information, description, table of contents and sample chapter.

See what Wikipedia has to say about Crazy Love.

ISBN-13: 9781434768513

Books, books, books...

"Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room
piled high with cases in my father's name;
Piled high, packed large, -- where, creeping in and out
among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first.
And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark.
An hour before the sun would let me read!
My books!"

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning