“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” – Rene Descartes
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” – Will Rogers
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My not so secret addiction
The reasons themselves
Do not matter
Somehow I never got
Around to reading
Vonnegut – yet
Today one of his books
A Man Without a Country
Appeared at my door
Via la poste
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Scanning a few pages
A quote or two catches
My eye – arousing
Inherent curiosity
My inner cat alerted
The treat is in store
Lying in wait –
Ready to pounce
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Such is the life
Of the reader
There are always books
Demanding to be read
Authors to discover
Stories to be told – alas
So many books and
Life – gone in a flash
Or a whimper
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Heady with Sir Chaplin
Halfway through his life
The tower of coming attractions
Beckon seductively
Cocooned in his story
Yet a restlessness – a whisper
Fear that the lights may darken
Before the next front-runner
Has exposed itself –
Reveal its secrets
Intoxication of the
Literary sensibility
Bisous,
Léa
poetry, photos and musings oh my! 
Wonderful poem Lea! I’ve never read any Vonnegut but my son was heavily into it at one point a few years ago. Great quotes as always.
What would we do without our books?! 😊 xxx.
PS I’ve just been reading The Duck in the Truck to Solomon this morning! It’s never too early to start 😊 xxx
For the mother’s among us who are addicted to books, we have been reading to our young since before they were born. Thank you for the lovely image of you reading to monsieur Solomon! 🙂 xxx
PS, I shall let you know how it goes with Vonnegut but in the meantime it is back to the current obsession, Sir Charles Chaplin. It is such a lovely read and the 100+ photos are a big plus! xxx
It sounds like a good one. It may well join the queue! xxx
I’m afraid it is so good it jumped the queue here and I’m already looking forward to re-reading it. xxx
😊 xxx
oh i love books – a beautiful addiction isn’t it… and that third quote really made me laugh out loud… so good…
smiles
Oooh…’My inner cat alerted…’ wonderful 😊
Yes, and just waiting to pounce! Merci! 🙂
Fantastic description…….A greed comes over me and I start four or five books and read them all intermittently, but steadily. It drives my husband crazy. He starts one book and perseveres to the end, even if he doesn’t particularly like the book.
I’m more than half way through a good one now and I want to finish and I don’t! Yet there are towers of books waiting their turn to speak! 🙂 Merci beaucoup Eileen
Lea I believe a book finds us for some reason. I delight in the knowledge there are many waiting to find me.