Encouraging Bibliophilia

In the hopes of encouraging others to read, I am going to blog about all of the books that I read. I am going to try to focus on those books and short-stories that most people have not read. This could be because they are new releases, long and intimidating or just one of those classics that you have been meaning to get around to but have not engaged with yet. I will include all spoilers under a warning so that those who haven't read these books won't have anything ruined. I have always been a. reader but instead of bogging this down with all the books I have ever read, I am going to start with the books I have completed in 2014 and continue for there. My aim for the year is 50 books, so hopefully this will keep any readers going. Happy reading!

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Absolutely lovely.

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Part of this story has been told before: the broad doorway, the acrobats These are incidents from a book I love. Incidents, to be exact, from a dream in that book. But is it any less real to me now for having once happened to someone else elsewhere?

Everyday is for the Thief by Teju Cole

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if I am to to speak the truth, I'll have to say the sort of things that you object to. I don't know whether it's right for a philosopher to tell lies, but it's certainly not my way.

Utopia, Thomas More

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All the secrets of the world are contained in #books http://ebks.to/1X2pFVj

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Life mission to find out as many as possible. I’m nosy like that.

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They just don't understand. How can they understand something they already know so well?

The Yellow Arrow, Victor Pelevin

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What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education http://bit.ly/1jVM34t

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There is no such thing as “this book is too high”

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Where there is a book, there is a way to get to it. 

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Wise Children - Angela Carter

Wise Children – Angela Carter

All singing, all dancing, all complicated family histories. Number of ratings on Goodreads: 4,000 Where did I find it and why did I read it? I found this book while wandering the library. I will admit that with the increased demands of new parenthood have resulted in me spending time looking for thin books that can be read quickly. I am lucky that such a good book was also short. I had one of…

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The Last Bookaneer - Matthew Pearl

The Last Bookaneer – Matthew Pearl

Literary piracy in the South Pacific. Number of ratings on Goodreads: 800 Where did I find it and why did I read it? This was another audio book that I found searching through the Overdrive App. The gift that keeps on giving these days. This is a recently published book (May 2015) so I am guessing that it hasn’t been read by that many people purely because it is new. That is genuinely the only…

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The Museum of Literary Souls - John Connolly

The Museum of Literary Souls – John Connolly

A bibliophile follows a woman with a red handbag down the rabbit hole.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 464

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

This falls into the books about libraries and book stores phase that I was in. I don’t remember exactly how I found it but the combination of theme and having already read a book by the author (which was great and is recommended here), I am going…

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Utopia - Thomas More

Utopia – Thomas More

Paradise described.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 31,326

Challenge 2015: A book that is over 100 years old

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

I have been meaning to read this book forever and so it fitting the criteria for my challenge (being that it is 499 years old). Despite this book being considerably well read for this blog, I have decided to include it because I am guessing that…

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The Napoleon of Crime – Ben Macintyre

The Napoleon of Crime – Ben Macintyre

The story of a brilliant and completely loveable Victorian criminal.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 540

Challenge 2015: A nonfiction book

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

This book has a slightly more interesting reason for how I found it and why I chose it! Great departure from the ramblings of me not remembering how and why I acquired it. Yay!

So I went on a tour of Highgate…

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbLB4kisMV8)

Have to love a book haul video!

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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (via bookmania)

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Yellow Pages: A Catalogue of Intentions - Nicole Markotić

Yellow Pages: A Catalogue of Intentions – Nicole Markotić

The (fictionalized) life and times of Alexander Graham Bell.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 7 (Yes actually only seven at the time of writing this. And I am one of them.)

Challenge 2015: A book that takes place in your hometown

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

Google. I grew up in a small city in Ontario and I figured (correctly) that NOTHING would be set in my hometown. So I did a…

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Getting Rid of Matthew - Jane Fallon

Getting Rid of Matthew – Jane Fallon

The other woman decides that she is sick of the man… just as he decides to leave his wife for her.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 2,869

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

Normally I avoid chick-lit (and books that look like they might be chick-lit) like they are the plague. I just have no interest in wasting my energies on sexist portrayals of women desperate to find a man to make them…

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Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood

Moral Disorder – Margaret Atwood

Life, death, mental illness, complicated families and the importance of memories.

Number of ratings on Goodreads: 6,325

Challenge 2015: A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet

Where did I find it and why did I read it?

Oh Margaret Atwood, I will probably read anything that you write. Luckily you have yet to disappoint me, so I can continue reading your work without fear.

I am…

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