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Gideon the Ninth Review

Gideon the Ninth Review

By Staff Account

By Michael Kitchin  | Originally posted on The Bookstack   The coolest thing I noticed about the science fantasy novel Gideon the Ninth was how the story uses slang, profanity, and pop culture...

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Why pick up a Special Edition Book?

Why pick up a Special Edition Book?

By Staff Account

ByTheArcane Originally posted on EverAfterBooks.co What makes a special edition book special? If you already enjoy reading, you might wonder why special and deluxe editions have become so popular recently....

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Which Romantasy Named Blade Would Sweep You Off Your Feet?

Which Romantasy Named Blade Would Sweep You Off Your Feet?

By Staff Account

ByTheArcane  Originally posted on EverAfterBooks.co In romantasy, a sword is rarely just a sword. Sometimes it’s a flaming heirloom, a death-dealing truth-seeker, or a cursed relic forged from star metal....

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Root and Ruin Review

Root and Ruin Review

By Staff Account

Root and Bone by Jessica Raney was an entertaining read. I loved the setting and the way magic and creatures from folklore were interwoven into it, and most of all...

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Pick of the Month

The charity, club, or organisation picks a book and will receive a percentage of their book's sales for the entirety of their month. If you're a non-profit interested in claiming a month please get in touch.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

– Cicero

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”

– George R.R. Martin

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."

– Ray Bradbury

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

– C.S. Lewis

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

– Carl Sagan

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

– Stephen King

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson 

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

– Rene Descartes

"We read to know we are not alone"

– C.S. Lewis

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”

– Walt Disney

"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else."

– John Waters

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

– Dr. Seuss

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

– Groucho Marx 

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

– Harper Lee 

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them."

– Emma Thompson

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”

– Napoleon Bonaparte

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