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Layout by CoolChaser Background from flickr userMy Book and Heart Must never part. ~Anonymous....Since I have named my page "Books are Knowledge and Power", then I have to say that BOOKS are the one thing that truly define me, as I am now. But, I am a self-professed Renaissance woman. I have many, many interests which range from BOOKS, movies, art, music to science, history and more. I am a singer (strictly for fun), I am a History and English major in college. I have a personal library in my home numbering over 2000 books--fiction and non-fiction! I am a writer and my greatest ambition is to write a novel--even better if it turns out to be best-selling and/or award-winning. I love my children and believe that they, and all children, are our future. I am very concerned about the environment and try to do my part whenever I can to improve it. I love Christmas--I am a Christmas fanatic actually! I'm sad when it's over and I start looking forward to it even before summer begins--lol! I also LOVE CATS!!!..
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..Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown..If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison..
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..I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991..Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx..
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..The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed..A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. ~Franz Kafka..
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..To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor,,s prohibited list. ~John Aikin..Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley..
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..Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~Henry Ward Beecher..
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..These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ~Gilbert Highet..Help Save The World - One Click At A Time!
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..Mel Gibson, Jack White, Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr. (will somebody please give this man an Oscar!), Orlando Bloom, The Dixie Chicks, Clay Aiken, Gerard Butler, Elliott Yamin, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Stephenie Meyer, Shakespeare and Tolkien (I know they're dead--duh!), Quentin Tarantino, Aerosmith, Madonna, J.K. Rowling, Sinead O'Connor, Joaquin Phoenix, M. Night Shyamalan, James McAvoy, I wish I could have met Heath Ledger--RIP... PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER!You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.~Stephen King, ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT
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What I'm reading/have read lately

I can't believe that I haven't posted a blog since February! This isn't really hard to believe considering the hard ass semester I just finished.  I barely had time to read anything (except for requir...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 22:11:00 GMT

Desperate Characters

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/bookclub/200... Check out The New Yorker's new book club--or cooperative--as they like to call it! It sounds pretty cool!
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:15:00 GMT

What I've been reading...

So...I have been disastrously neglectful with this blog of late.  I'm so busy these days, I don't know if I'm coming or going.  I am going to try to be better though!Anyway, down to what I've been rea...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:26:00 GMT

Bookreporter.com

http://www.bookreporter.com/index.asp This is an excellent site about all things book related. They have a great newsletter too! Check it out!
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:00 GMT

Invite a Friend - Army of Women

http://my.armyofwomen.org/invitefriend I just joined the Love/Avon Army of Women  and you should, too! The Love/Avon Army of Women offers women the opportunity to partner with the scientists who a...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:15:00 GMT

EXERCISE YOUR FREEDOM TO READ--BANNED BOOKS WEEK STARTS TOMORROW!

DON'T FORGET--TOMORROW BEGINS BANNED BOOKS WEEK.  I WILL BE DEDICATING ALL DAILY QUOTES, MY PROFILE, ETC. TO BOOKS! Banned Books WeekCelebrating the Freedom to ReadSeptember 27October 4, 2008 Ba...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:29:00 GMT

THREE DAYS UNTIL BANNED BOOKS WEEK-- 9/27 - 10/4

Banned Books WeekCelebrating the Freedom to ReadSeptember 27October 4, 2008Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:58:00 GMT

MyDebates.org--Election 2008


Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:47:00 GMT

John McCains health records must be released

http://therealmccain.com When it comes to the environment, John McCain only has the interests of Big Oil at heart. That's why he has over 22 Big Oil lobbyists advising him. That's why he fav...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:08:00 GMT

McCain/Palin worse than Bush

Check out this blog from John Cusack.  Very important info about the presidential race:http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog....  
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:24:00 GMT