I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talkin….

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is..

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs..

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain w….

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush ….

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book wi….

If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 5….

Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away..