International Book Giving Day Website

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

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Books I Would Give to Everyone:

• The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
• The Magic Tunnel by Caroline D. Emerson

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Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else.

George Saunders

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Others Recommendations:

• WRITING: Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style from the Copy Chief of Random House by Benjamin Dreyer
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• POLITICS: Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America by Jared Cohen
• MEMOIR: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Life’s That Way by Jim Beaver
• SPIRITUAL: A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals by Thomas Merton
• A Walk with the Saints by James Martin, SJ
• POETRY: Hailstones and Halibut Bones: Adventures in Poetry and Color by Mary O’Neill, John Wallner, illustrator
• FICTION: Here be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

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The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

Mary McLeod Bethune

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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