The Booklover's Mind: a peep

Observations from a book-lover...

• I'm so glad the Marshalsea and other debtors' prisons no longer exist
• The Micawbers and I? Yeah. We're like this.
• Dear old Dickens and Lewis--how do you manage to be so quotable?
• I have been much amused by the fact that Jane Austen's most famous quotes come from her villains (and villainesses) so one can only wonder if she disagreed with all the things people tout around as her wisdom. :P
• Green Gables--how does one tack a name onto a place and enmesh the name and place together in so effortless a fashion that every green and white farmhouse you see thereafter reminds you of a certain red-head?
• Josephine March--may I mention to you that I whole-heartedly agree when you say, "Oh, I hate money." It also amuses me how you can so cheerfully speak of your family's poverty as "a temporary poverty" when it has stretched years already. You're a darling.
• Yes he can be blunt and sarcastic and a tad vulgar, but Mark Twain was a star-spangled, gold-plated genius, that's what.
• There is a certain point in a thick book--*glares at Les Miserables*--when you think you will never get through. It is precisely at that moment that you decide whether you will beat it or not by the manner in which you respond to the doubt. If you toss the book aside you will fail. If you grab hold of it, grit your teeth, and sludge through yet another historic description, you will prevail. :)
• Bookmarks are so under-appreciated. "You never know what you got till it's gone," to quote the song. Anything will do--tags, tea-bags, napkins, post-it-notes, receipts and--in an extreme pinch--you can make do with...toilet paper.
•  I wish getting published was as "easy" as Jo March and Anne Shirley made it seem. I mean, at least editors accepted submissions back then. :P
• Read outside--there is an indescribable something that happens and quite transports you from this world to that.
• The best books never grow old. They grow soft, worn, battered, but they gain faces and you get to know them as well as you know your best friends. :)