“I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.” WorldYearsFirstsPersonsBookWarParticularMetsDefenseNosesFifteenHolmesFifteen YearsFifteen Years Old Book:Night Work Source: Night Work
“I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.” BookPages Book:A Monstrous Regiment of Women Source: A Monstrous Regiment of Women
“Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.” WorldGivingBookJobsNextMaterialsGeniusBecomingSingingMachinesLibraryAvailableRichesThanksAround The WorldOnlineGatesAcademicGoogleObscureFeedingObsessiveHymnsBasementsRecoveringAppreciativeIpadsDownloadsPantheonObsessive Compulsive Author:Laurie R. King
“I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.” FeelsLongBookHoursArmsLoversLibraryLong HoursDazed Author:Laurie R. King
