“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.” (The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
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“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.” (The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
That book for me: grade 5, Jane Eyre.
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books! staircase! cute house!
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“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now” (The Last Battle)
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