“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami
“You don’t have to burn books to destoy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury
For Jack Eason and the other authors who keep us in stories despite the struggle. Please visit Jack at his blog: https://havewehadhelp.wordpress.com/ and do all you can to support our independent authors, presses and publishers. I owe so much to the books in my life as well as the neighbor’s daughters that taught a three year-old how to read. It saved me.
Free books or the price of ignorance…
The author says nobody wants to buy
Real books, waiting for kindle
Or what they can get for free
Long ago I learned that
Precious little is free
Waiting to see the strings attached
Or what might appear
From behind someone’s back
I will admit to a “free” book
But I did have to exchange one
Of my own precious volumes
The price to be paid
Yet Jack is right
The author deserves his compensation
When one writes, much of who we are
What we believe is invested in each word
Writing is not merely work, a job
It is opening veins and pouring
Out your blood, opening oneself
To the acid tongues of the critics,
Those judging not only your work
But your life, who you are
Fiction’s DNA, the authors reality
To take what is produced
Without re-numeration, theft
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Remember, purchasing a good book is a gift you give yourself. It needs no batteries nor electricity and is easily shared.
Bisous,
Léa
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