“Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting at the end of a long day makes that day happier.” Kathleen Norris.
This is so true for me.
Tag: Quotes
The Reading Woman Calendar 2020: June
“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my
nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.” —Maureen Corrigan
So me.
The Reading Woman Calendar: Jan. 2020 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
“I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the 
people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.”—Isabel Allende
The Reading Woman 2019 Calendar: December
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel,
anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”―
Any reader can surely relate.
The Reading Woman 2019 Calendar: October
The epistle is opened and read—with a little wonder, most probably not a little vexation, …
true it is that no first love-letter ever yet gave satisfaction to either writer or reader. Its delight is another question. … and as many cups of coffee to a sentence, on the strength of which he keeps his bed for a week.–-Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 1802-1838
Better known by her initials L.E.L., her work hinted at the dark secrets of love.
The Reading Woman 2019 Calendar: January – Happy New Year!
“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has
a kenetic force, it sets in motion…elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.” ―
Leave Me Alone I Am Reading and Reviewing 