22 Feb, 2009
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New Toy alert!
Presenting Shelfari… and yah, a little too fun (been playing for an hour or so). I recommend searching for classics or by topic!
What are your favorite books? Let me know or add me as a friend here: http://www.shelfari.com/o1517930583
FAVORITES
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26 Aug, 2008
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Although I’ve stumbled on SmallWorld Reads, a great blog, a few times now, today is the first time I really investigated her Life Books Challenge.
SmallWorld Reads: Life Books Challenge
Who doesn’t have a list of favorite books? Chances are, those books are favorites because they tell a universal truth, and, most likely, because they say something about you. [Washy note: Isn’t that lovely? and True?!]
Part I: Choose Your Life Books
What are the books that, in some aspect, define you? Think about who you are in terms of spirituality, love, economics, values, worldview–the list could go on and on…. Give us your life in books.
So….
My Part I:
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13 Apr, 2008
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These quotes and phrases came to me courtesy of the Arlington Library Book Sale book bin. My new favorite spot: the box of “gift books”: quote books, guides, dictionaries, translations. Best of all, they’re all thrown randomly together. From this collection on this trip, I gleaned the following lines, poems all:
“The wind and the cherry blossom can never be good friends.” – Guy A. Zona, Even Withered Trees Give Prosperity to the Mountain and other Proverbs of Japan.
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