January 2012
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Happy New Year!
Thanks for following excessivebookshelf! I hope your 2012 is a wonderful year filled with books old and new. May your bookshelves be just as excessive (and overflowing) as mine in the 12 months ahead!
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“I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a...”
– The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
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“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes...”
– The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.”
– George Dryer
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“The churches rang out the lustiest peals he had ever heard. Clash, clang,...”
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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“Come, faeries, take me out of this dull house!
Let me have all the freedom I...”
– William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and...”
– Anna Quindlen
14 eclectic, bookish gifts →
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
– Anna Quindlen
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“As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place...”
– Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
