Happy Halloween!

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~ Gilbert Highet ~

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
~ John Witherspoon ~

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/lmalcott/bl-lmalc-old-fashion.htm

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
~ Hugh MacLennan ~

Happy Thanksgiving!

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus, French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)


Photograph by Michael Yamashita

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions
to which you can go without credentials.
You don't even need the sticker on your windshield
that you need to get into the public beach.
All you need is the willingness to read.
~ Harry Golden ~