A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ---Robert Orben

     Today I took a vacation from my life.  First I slept in and then read a great book from beginning to end.  Have you ever done that?  You let the book become your life for the day.  You live someone else's adventures and travel someone else's road. You wonder at, and envy, the author's creativity and poetry.  I should do this more often.

"A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it."---William Styron.

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you've lost a friend."---Paul Sweeney

"Books can be dangerous.  The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."---Helen Exley

"Medicine for the soul."---Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." ---Anna Quindlen
                  (Mine did!)

          

"Never judge a book by its movie."  J.W.Eagan