Really really awesome story! Keeps you hooked the whole time! My only problem with it was the language, which was a bummer. But other than that, it was such a fun and intense read! My first Dan Brown book. He is so good!
A beautifully told story! I have always loved this story from the time I first saw the Disney version, and Robin Mckinley brings it to life in a whole new way. There is such a depth to the characters and the settings in this story. It makes you think about what beauty truly is, is a great coming of age story, and is simply "magical"!
So, I have discovered the ways of the used bookstore. It is now one of my favorite places... ever. I found this cute little store in Rocklin, CA called Anna's Books. It's my favorite. Organized, lots of variety, old-new, nice people who share the book passion. I feel like a kindred spirit there. http://www.annasbooks.biz/ I don't really like a more popular one around here called Almost Perfect Books. It's about the largest bookstore I have EVER seen. But also the most chaotic! There is just too much and its not very cheap. It's alright though. http://www.almostperfectbookstore.com/ Idaho Falls, ID is where I began used-bookstore-ing because of my Young Adult Literature class. I had to read 30 YA novels, so naturally by the end of the semester the box of my mother's book I had borrowed was filled to the brim with new adventures and friends! The IF store is called Book City. It is right across from the mall. It's a really good one too! Deseret Industries is the best for prices! I have found the neatest books there and at Goodwill (basically the same thing). I bought 19 books for $30 from DI. Crazy! (yes, I do mean me for buying 19 books.. I know..) One of them was the Coolest dictionary in the world! It is over half a foot wide! The unabridged collegiate dictionary. Every word known to man, held in my hands at one time!.. well, almost. It looks just great up with all of my books! I found this collection of Shakespeares tragedies and comedies printed in 1944! It is a set of 4 books, I only found 3 of them. They are beautiful. Seriously. Green hardback covers, with gold and brown writing. On the inside of them all there is someone's old "ex-libris". I had been seeing that word a lot so started a research. Ex Libris translated directly from latin means "from the books". It is used to mean, "from the library of". Ex Libris is often on a book plate. A sticker in the front of the book with the person's name printed below ex libris. These books say ex libris Lenore Bosworth. It just makes me wonder. Who was Lenore Bosworth? What did these books mean to her? A great deal? Nothing? How did they end up at DI for $2.00? That is what I love about these old books. They have been through so much. These survived WWII! I also found a really cool old copy of The Book of Mormon from 1960. It is one of the blue copies from when David O. Mckay was prophet I believe. There is a name written in the front as well. At Goodwill I found a Havard edition of Homer's Odyssey. When opened up, on the left page is the story in it's original language and the english translation on the right page! So cool! Unfortunately, it's not the whole odyssey. It doesn't have a print date though, but it looks and feels pretty old. Today I purchased a copy of Ben Hur from 1908! Another beautiful book! It was given to a someone (I can't quite make out the name) for Christmas of 1914! I also found some textbooks I needed for my upcoming semester. These books make me realize just how small our world is. The book I am currently reading, The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society, says, "I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret homing instinct in books that brings them to there perfect readers. How delightful if that were true." The main character, Juliet, in this book is a woman after my own heart! She also says, "Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookstops... I have going to [Hasting's & Son's] for years, always finding the one book I wanted-and then three more I hadn't known I wanted." Exactly. Speaking of stories reminds me of one last thing. This really cool video my teacher showed us in my Contemporary British and American Literature class last semester. It's about collecting stories- our own and others around us, past and present.
Everybody, and everything, has a story. An old ticket stub, a saved bottle cap, a torn picture, an ex libris in the front of a book. There are unlimited ways to listen to a story.
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” - G.K. Chesterton
"It is not enough to speak, but to speak true." -William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book." -Stephane Mallarme
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." -Cicero
"Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book." -Author Unknown
"Perhaps there is some secret homing instinct that brings books to their perfect readers." -The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery" -Jane Austen
"The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read." -Tom Clancy
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Suess
"So many books, so little time." -Frank Zappa
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one." -C.S. Lewis
"Isn't it amazing how we take them for granted, those little black marks on paper. Twenty six different shapes known as letters, arranged in endless combinations known as words. Lifeless until someone's eye falls on them. But then a miracle happens. Along the optic nerve, almost at the speed of light these tiny symbols are flashed to the brain where they are instantly decoded into ideas, images, concepts, meanings. The eye's owner is changed too. The little black marks can make him love or hate, laugh or cry, fight or run away..." -Arthur Gordon, Guideposts Associates
"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." -Abraham Lincoln
"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." -Lemony Snicket
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
So, I have discovered the ways of the used bookstore. It is now one of my favorite places... ever. I found this cute little store in Rocklin, CA called Anna's Books. It's my favorite. Organized, lots of variety, old-new, nice people who share the book passion. I feel like a kindred spirit there.
ices! I have found the neatest books there and at Goodwill (basically the same thing). I bought 19 books for $30 from DI. Crazy! (yes, I do mean me for buying 19 books.. I know..) One of them was the Coolest dictionary in the world! It is over half a foot wide! The unabridged collegiate dictionary. Every word known to man, held in my hands at one time!.. well, almost. It looks just great up with all of my books! I found this collection of Shakespeares tragedies and comedies printed in 1944! It is a set of 4 books, I only found 3 of them. They are beautiful. Seriously. Green hardback covers, with gold and brown writing. On the inside of them all there is someone's old "ex-libris". I had been seeing that word a lot so started a research.
phet I believe. There is a name written in the front as well.
