I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. - Groucho Marx
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Ladybird Books is 100 years old.
The 1964 illustration of "Mummy wrapping a present" (left) was updated in 1976...
So stop making enemies
And let’s face the facts,
People will always need people,
Yes
People will always need people.
- Benjamin Zephaniah
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"I wanted to find a novel I liked, about the French Revolution. I couldn’t, so I started making one.”
- Hilary Mantel
The big idea: should we abolish literary genres? theguardian.com/books/2023/n…
This has nothing to do with books.
But it's a wonderful story.
#CillaBlack
#BlindDate
“Books have held a special joy for me from the time I was a child,” Pink said in comments before her Florida tour. “That’s why I am unwilling to stand by and watch while books are banned...”
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“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
I've been listening to a lot of Nick Drake lately and this is from my favourite album of his.
youtu.be/4L-vZn6bRvk
“What's the good of a home, if you are never in it?”
THE DIARY OF A NOBODY
George & Weedon Grossmith
amazon.co.uk/dp/B00UZI98M8
#books #fiction #classics
"I apologise for the ensuing name dropping. It was hard to avoid it...
It makes little sense to write about the butler if Chairman Mao is sitting down to dinner."
DAVID NIVEN
The Moon's A Balloon
THE BOOKS THAT SCARE HORROR AUTHORS
"The bag that puts its arms around your neck in the dark,
the mouth that waits for you to find it under your pillow,
the dog whose head you pat only to realise that it has a human face..."
theguardian.com/books/2019/o…
“I learned quite a few things about myself in the 40 minutes I was supposedly a Nobel prize winner."
- JOHN BANVILLE
theguardian.com/books/2019/o…
"It's so beautiful, the love and the feeling here. This is the time of our lives." - Johnny Flynn, live in Trafalgar Square.
youtu.be/_18Zrd8_7dQ
@musicdeclares
@XRLondon
@ExtinctionR
#JohnnyFlynn
#HollyHolden
#ExtinctionRebellion
“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”
KURT VONNEGUT
@Kurt_Vonnegut
Lately things they don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
Excuse me while I kiss the sky
♥ #JimiHendrix
#PurpleHaze
#cover
#SamWilkinson
youtu.be/WRwrez76UOU
VIDEO:
Filmed at her home in Bristol in June 2007, Helen Dunmore reads six poems...
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"To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone..."
Helen Dunmore
INSIDE THE WAVE
winner of the Costa Book of the Year
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
G. K. CHESTERTON
Heretics
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
“Books are keys that open many doors.”
JAMES ROLLINS
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