The remit I got from the kids (13 & 16) was – ‘a city, not too long distance a flight, not cold, social media allowed and something to do’. I made sure their ‘not cold’ was more understood as warm, so I could sunbathe and leave them alone a bit more…
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Books are life to bookworms. The power of words takes you to places you could never imagine and fills your heart with warm romance.
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'The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.' - Alan Bennett, The History Boys
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'Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.' - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." – Charles Baudelaire
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“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” - Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary
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