Apparently I've a problem...

Addicted to books part 2...

I love reading

I love writing.
I love writing ABOUT reading!

Ok...

So, on Addicted to books part 2
we are going to take a tour on

great quotes and images about
our favourite topic...

BOOKS!!!

Welcome to BookLand...

All the "rides" are own by different people on the Internet
So none or very little actually belongs to me

Except my photo...

I'm not gonna say which one it is,

because if you know me you already know and if you don't
well... though luck!´

Popcorn is free

Coca-Cola was free, but then I got thirsty...

and if you are a Prince of Tennis Fan,

(such as myself) I can offer you some Grape Ponta...

OK... Let's Begin...

SPEAK OUT turns to READ OUT

the Truth is in here...




Never judge a book by it's movie

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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. Paxton Hood

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Books are uniquely portable magic. Stephen King

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me

From mine own library

with volumes that

I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616),

The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. Unknown


A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps

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

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~ G. K. Chesterton

When a new book is published, read an old one. Unknown

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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel. Unknown

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

The covers of this book are too far apart. ~ Ambrose Bierce

The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ~ Voltaire

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

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. Library in nature...

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps.My Favorite Novel! "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Not my favorite book tough... My Favorite book is "A Thousand and one Nights".

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

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One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.

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I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

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God forbid people should read our books to find the juicy passages.

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Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again. (talking about Henry James)
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
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I was reading a book...'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
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I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

That's All...

Review and Write on!

Hi! My Name is Sara and I'm a book-addict...

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I'm addicted

What about you?

...
So, what's your addiction?

When I found myself confronted with this question in English class, I faltered...
Not because I don't know what I'm addicted to, or because I have no addictions, but because I'm overly dependent on too many things and since I've too many addictions, I've managed to reduced them all to this quote:

I'm addicted to books.

I love everything about books.

Big and small books!Old books, new books! dictionaries and encyclopedias!

Love the stories, the humour, the suspense, the adventure, the romance (the dashing knight always saving his damsel in distress in some new, equally fascinating way) the magic, the fun, the entertainment pocket-size! you can playback anytime, you can do-overs and stop at anytime you're bored or just don't feel like reading anymore... and it counts as studying!


I adore not just the stories, but also the printing of the letters on the paper pages, the feeling of the pages as they slip by my fingers and the whooshing sound they make as they pass by.

The black and white images adorning the first letter on the beginning of each chapter, the colours and images on the covers (I especially like hardcover books, and buy them whenever I can get them) damn! I even like the way books smell! old and new, and like paper and ink.

I love the act of buying books.

I like to always be informed on what books are out or to come out, and I stop by the book store near my house, at least once every two days. Every time I see a new book store I always enter and check the shelves, for both familiar and unfamiliar titles. The lady in the book store near my house even knows my name, and what kind of books I like to buy. She always greets me by my name and says, if there is anything new that, she thinks I might like to read.

But I'm learning not to buy any book I want, just because I want it.

I must learn to do this fast, because I'm running out of bookshelf space very quickly, and I've began to pile my books in towers and castles on the floor...

Right now I'm building a bridge with my Terry Pratchett's collection.

My Harry Potters' are on the base of my central tower and my Anne Rice and Sherrilyn Kenyons' are fighting for a spot in the front wall. What can I do, if I look at the shelves and the books just stare at me?

So yummy and shinny and all lined up...

I love book stores!

Not so found of libraries though, the book are all looked away under key and look, (and in my library, even chains) it looks like they are on prison and it upsets me. It just seems kind of cruel...

Anyway, the books are always there... just for you.


They are never bored of you, never tired from playing, never occupied with something else.

They always have time for you... they always listen and they never complain.

They never judge. They always care.

You can call them at any time, all the time or don't call on them, at all...

They don't get upset, because you don't spend enough time with them or because you trade them for some other book.

Books are the best of friends and the wisest of teachers.
Because they teach you the greatest of life's lessons... they teach you to be yourself.
Let me explain...

A lot of people these days don't like to read, I know.
They think that they can learn everything from the TV but they are wrong.
Do the TV explain and describe all the emotions, that you can feel when you read?
No,it's just exposing them.
Does the TV give you the freedom of imagination?
No,they make you fit into their imagination.
Yes, it's easier to just turn the TV on with the click of one button, but reading...it's much more beautiful...