We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last,… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Often we feel the need to say that a book isn’t just about a particular time or place but is about the… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say -… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I can’t see giving up real books,” she said. “And I love that I can give away my books after I’ve read… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“In December 2008, I had the book with me while we waited for Dr. O'Reilly. Mom had already finished it. Every time… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something and can… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. I don’t think I’ll ever get over Melanie’s… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you’re with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“I did manage to read some pages from a book that’s also about how people can find strength they didn’t know they had.” “What… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“Connelly writes, “As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“asked: “And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?” “Of course not—I’d read it first. I don’t think I could have stood… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“A father and his son are in a terrible car crash. The father is killed instantly—but the son survives, barely, his life hanging in… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer-… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.” — will schwalbe Copy Share
