Jenn’s Books

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

~Henry Ward Beecher

Posted on August 16th, 2006

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

~Author Unknown

Posted on August 15, 2006

A book is to me like a hat or coat - a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.

~Charles B. Fairbanks

Posted on August 15th, 2006

So, I slept all day yesterday. I am not joking. So you get two posts today.

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.

~Jim Fiebig

Posted on August 13th, 2006

While I may be the last living person in the U.S. who hasn’t seen Pirates 2 up until this point, I saw it today. Gods it was great! I so can’t wait to see the next one, and my fiance need a pirate hat. He looks just like Captain Jack in one. Sometimes I count myself the luckiest woman alive. I have a wonderful man that looks like Johnny Depp without all of the drama that comes with being a celebrity.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

~George Steiner

Posted on August 12th, 2006.

I thought this quote was appropriate for the political climate currently. My heart goes out to those that must make a flight in the next week.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

~Franz Kafka

Posted on August 11th, 2006

Today’s big thanks goes to DT&T. They fixed my laptop and for cheap! If you have a computer problem and you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, give them a try. DT&T in Fremont

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”

~Helen Exley

Posted on August 10th, 2006

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

~Jessamyn West

Posted on August 9th, 2006

So again I am really sorry. The new reviews will be out tomorrow. I really hate pain killers.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

~George Robert Gissing

Posted on August 8th, 2006

Sorry about the lateness of this quote. The doctor gave me a local anaesthetic for my knee so that she could pull some fluid from it, but the pulling failed. So now I am just dizzy and nauseous, and no closer to finding out what is wrong with me. So hopefully I can get tomorrow’s reviews out on time. If not, well it will be Thursday. Oh, and thanks to my aunt Murgy for telling my mom in detail about this site (my mom has a deep hatred for computers).

Let books be your dining table,
And you shall be full of delights
Let them be your mattress
And you shall sleep restful nights.

~Author Unknown

Posted on August 7th, 2006