“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
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