from Positively Ellinwood Street
“Fiction is dangerous, Gaiman explained, because “it lets you into others’ heads, it gives you empathy, and it shows you that the world doesn’t have to be like the one you live in.” That imaginative leap into other minds and other worlds is surely the reason many of us read fiction.” — Why Neil Gaiman Thinks Fiction Is Dangerous, and Why I Think It’s Dangerous | Library Journal (via libraryjournal)
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“What a beautiful respite a train journey is and a good book, too, and best of all the book on the train, in life and out of it at the same time, before we arrive at Termini and disembark and the book is put down and we must all part and go our separate ways, forever.” —
Tim Park, from Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo (via the-final-sentence)n
This is so very relevant.
10 Great Books Starring Cats – Flavorwire -
Looking for something that’s kind of like a cat video, but a little more literary? Writers have long been inspired by their pets, and particularly, it seems, by their cats. It’s not surprising then that our feline friends figure prominently in some great books, from Russian classics to YA masterpieces to that one book everyone has definitely read.
Unexpected Book Sequels 2013 -
from Positively Ellinwood Street
Wild Animals Travel Around the World -
from Kidding Around
HAVE BOOK, WILL TRAVEL: DPPL is your Passport to Summer Fun! -
from Kidding Around
Classical Music under the Stars -
from PlainTalk