“To read Hotel Angeline is to celebrate how this diverse group of writers (and readers, all of them) can pool their talents and expertise to come up with such an entertaining and soul-satisfying novel.” — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is? — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is. — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“I can relate to the novelist Carrie Brown...who described herself as being 'a promiscuous reader.' I'll give almost any book a chance to have… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“Give a book 50 pages. When you get to the bottom of Page 50, ask yourself if you're really liking the book.... And if,… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50 years old,… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
