Wise Words About How Very Big a Role a Great Book Can Play in a Little Life

November 28, 2008

There's no predicting what teensy little glimpses back into their childhood our wee ones will remember -- only that they will remember some.  And we hope that somewhere in the blurry pastiche of memory will be their parents' finer moments.  Or perhaps our finer choices of books....

"There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Great quote! And true. I have books I've read over 25 times! Crazy, but true. There is just something in those books I love. Now when I read them, is it the book I love, or the memories of late nights and cool winter evenings with that book that I love?
Posted on Nov 28, 2008

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