Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere

Ask anyone with a big book collection, and they'll tell you moving them was the hardest part of the move. Take down a bookshelf and there's often no less than four, possibly up to eight, good Lord if it's over ten, boxes of dense material. This is the single greatest argument for welcoming ebooks. Abandoning print and having your Kindle on display instead doesn't sound like such a bad idea while carrying book box number seven to the car.

The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your shelf. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.

Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new place or reinforced what they were doing.

Starbucks and their ilk are for meeting with people you don't care to meet with and finishing term papers.

What Your Child Will Grow Up to Be If You Read Them…

Considering yourself a serious reader doesn’t mean you can’t read light books. Loving to read means you sometimes like to turn your head off.

At these moments I need my reading easy and quick; I need to turn the pages without knowing it. I don’t have the bandwidth to wonder about the underlying meaning of the exact word chosen to phrase how one turned around or analyze just why an object was described in a certain

Considering yourself a serious reader doesn’t mean you can’t read light books. Loving to read means you sometimes like to turn your head

If you tell an eight-year-old she has a talent for something, she'll never give it a rest.