Mike Bookman, Gent. ✓

[image] Happy National Book Lovers Day! “For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a viall, the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that

[image] The Old Country Doctor (1930): W. Scott Nay “To observe people of all classes, to see them in their home environment, where they are themselves without affectation, to notice how good hearts show through rough exteriors, and how pretenses fail to cover flaws, and to combat in

[image] David Copperfield (1850): Charles Dickens “Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent to every child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that family as dearly as I love them. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of

[image] A Calendar of Wisdom (1912): Tolstoy "A wise man sets requirements only for himself; an unwise man makes requirements for others." Originally banned in Russia, Tolstoy’s late-life daybook gathers short readings from the Gospels, Buddha, Confucius, Marcus Aurelius, and other