“There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.” WayKindBookPoorRichPages Author:Merle Shain
“More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.” RealSeemsLife IsNovelRichPagesComplexesReal LifeUnpredictable Author:Candice Millard
“I have rarely read a more wonderful book than To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander. Rich with historical detail and fully developed characters, this novel held me spellbound until the last page. If you read one historical novel this year, make it To Win Her Favor. It will linger with you long after the last page.” IfsYearsLongBookCharacterLastsWinningNovelRichWonderfulPagesHistoricalDetailsFavorsHistorical Novels Author:Colleen Coble
“I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.” NeedsBookSelfHappensCultureNextRichCrazyMediaFindingsPagesHappeningsReflectionCapacityVery GoodBoringVisualsInteriorsRestlessAntidoteSelf ReflectionMonologuesNarratorsSo Boring Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and wincing) from the first page? Hart's Maine landscape is rich with eccentric characters, dried fish, and other surprising and original treasures. While Duncan sinks, the reader will float on a cloud nine of classy entertainment.” FirstsCharacterLaughingRichReaderPagesOriginalsCloudsFishesEntertainmentTreasureNineTrialsLandscapeSurprisingFloatsEccentricTribulationMaineTrials And TribulationsHartDuncanCloud Nine Author:Mameve Medwed
“The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.” IdeasWholeLastsRichMessagesPagesArgumentAll ThingsConnectionsUltimateFilledNotesSupremeChainsPassagesArchitectFragmentsSecuredNamelessEmbroideryRumination Author:Russell Sherman
“People ask me all the time how I prepare and, to tell you the truth, I think if what's on the page is rich and compelling, as far as I'm concerned, if it's beautifully presented on the page, all you have to do is put yourself there and pretend, and the rest takes care of itself. That is, unless it's a real stretch with an accent or if history matters where research has to be done.” PeopleIfsThinkingRealMatterDoneCareAsksRichPagesResearchConcernedTake CareAsk MeCompellingAccents Author:Miguel Ferrer
“I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.” WorldLittlesSaidLightWaitingBehindsRichColorPagesPicksTablesWoodsWarmSatCoveredStaffShelvesCarpetReflectingStairsSpineJust LiveBurgundyCashiers Book:Shiver Source: Shiver