Top four reasons to read

November 2, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute 1. Reading books makes you appear intelligent and sophisticated to your good friends, cherished co-workers, and other subordinates. Kind of like smoking in front of impressionable children. 2. Reading at the library is one of the most cost effective methods of entertainment. All that money you’ll be saving means more illicit drugs in your system […]

Top four ending lines in novels

November 2, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute 1. Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is. – Russell Banks, CONTINENTAL DRIFT (1985) 2. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance. –Mary Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN (1818) 3. The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off. –Joseph Heller, CATCH-22 (1961) 4. […]