Skoob

“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNavjsXc12c "That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive-all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment." (Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society) "People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic." (Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale) "Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." (Anna Quindlen) "The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books." (Katherine Mansfield)“