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 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.
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… - Nancy Pearl
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…
- Nancy Pearl
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. - Nancy Pearl
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.
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? - Nancy Pearl
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?
Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away. - Nancy Pearl
Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.
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… - Nancy Pearl
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…
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… - Nancy Pearl
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 … - Nancy Pearl
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 …
No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is. - Nancy Pearl
No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.
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… - Nancy Pearl
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…
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