3-Day Quote Challenge #2 – Books

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I´ve been tagged for the 3-Day Quote Challenge by my wonderful friend Ju-Lyn from over at Sunrise, Sunset – Matters of Perspective!

Thank you so much for tagging me, Ju-Lyn! I just love quotes!

 

“If you have enough book space, I don’t want to talk to you.”

– Terry Pratchett

 

This one says it all, doesn’t it? Terry Pratchett is also one of my very favorite writers. Whenever I need a dose of humor and magic, I tend to return to one of his books about the Disc World and reread it.

 

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One of my many overloaded bookshelves (May 2018)

 

 

The Rules of this Challenge are as followed:

1) Thank the person who nominated you
2) Post a quote for 3 consecutive days ( 1 post each day )
3) Nominate 3 bloggers each day

 

And today I´m tagging the following bloggers for this challenge:

The Orangutan Librarian (for those in the know this is rather an obvious choice 😉 )

Sharon Bonin Pratt´s Ink Flare

http://talkingthailand.co.uk

 

 

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46 thoughts on “3-Day Quote Challenge #2 – Books”

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  4. I absolutely love this quote, Sarah, and your shelves look like mine! In fact, I was in Target yesterday, walking the aisles and had reached the books. I had to literally work hard to walk right on by and not stop because I’m reading 2 at a time now and have others on the list. It’s as though I was passing up chocolate! 🙂 Hugs, my friend! 📚📘📖

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    1. Hehe! Thanks so much and I’m delighted your shelves look equally stuffed. 😉 Oh, those book ailes, I know their siren’s call only too well! 😂 Just borrowed to armfuls of books from my local library and am busy reading through them. Happy reading, dear Lauren! Hugs&love! 😄💕

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    1. Me too. 😦 I´m currently rereading The Time Thief, brilliant one but of course, it can’t replace the excitement we all have felt whenever a new book was published by him.
      And believe me, it was sooo difficult to choose a quote by him! 😀 ❤

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  6. This quote made me laugh. Nope, not enough book space here but still I squeeze the new one in. Then it made me think about the books I choose to keep even thought I’ve read them. They are the books I’ll read again, and most I already have. Over the years, I’ve passed hundreds of book forward to other readers, and still I barely have any book space left. They aren’t all “classics” (though many are) but they are my classics.

    Thank you, Sarah, for nominating me. I am honored and will follow up with my own 3-Day Quote Challenge soon.

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    1. I´m so glad you enjoyed this quote, Shari! When I read it, I knew it was perfect and totally sums up all I feel about books. I´m currently busy sorting out my bookshelves to make room for new ones, and also give them away so someone else can enjoy reading them. But there are some books I really need to keep and that I reread on occasion like The Lord of the Rings, Narnia Chronicles, all word by Diana Gabaldon and a few more. My secret dream is to have one day a whole room just for storing books, some might call it a library. 😉

      And I look forward to read your quotes soon!

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  8. This is so good. I have to confess to never having read a Terry Pratchett book but do feel I should probably begin. Which of course will mean I have even less room. I do wonder sometimes if our procrastinating around moving house isn’t partly a fear of having to confront just how many books we actually have. xxxxx

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    1. He was really one of the best, incredibly wise, observant and on top of it all funny. Whichever book you will end up picking up, you won’t be disappointed!
      And I totally get that moving house with all those books will be a nightmare!! But since they´re really so much more than mere pages with writing on them, one has to do it. 😉 xxxxx

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      1. I’ll add him to my list of “authors I really should have read at my age.” 😀 And I agree; it has to be done. Then I can start on the other books that we took to the Big T’s parents’ place for storage about 25 years ago. 😂 xxxxxxx

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  9. A terrific quote!! My book cases are overflowing, books everywhere … many homes are now minimalist but I would find it hard to live without being surrounded by books. My husband loves Terry Pratchett’s books as well. I look forward to your third and final quotation tomorrow! Have a lovely start to the week, Sarah! 😀❤️🌺

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    1. Thank you, Annika! I knew your book cases would be like that. 😉 I once had a professor whose walls were absolutely full with books, there was not one tiny spot free of them, and I absolutely loved it there!
      Have a great week too! 🙂 ❤

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  11. That makes me laugh a little. I’m going to be buried in my books. They just get stacked higher and higher and in front of each other. I know of no one in my neighborhood who has book shelves and has them full or over full. Personally, I could live in a book store and be quite happy. Especially if it has a coffee/snack shop in it. 🙂 I have nothing to talk about with people who don’t read. Sigh.

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    1. Then we both would get along very well I think. 😉 I also could live in a bookstore, I think that’s the secret dream of every passionate reader. Not many book hoarders in my neighbourhood too I fear but that’s okay- more books left for me. 😉 Have a wonderfilled Monday, Marlene!

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  12. That’s one amazing quote Sarah! I definitely don’t have enough book space😄 Thoroughly enjoying your quote challenge my friend & the pictures accompanying them:) ❤️

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    1. Thank you! 😄 And you’re very welcome, hope you’ll find the time to do this challenge as I’m totally curious with which quotes you will come up. 😉 Have a great Monday! 💕

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  14. Terry Pratchett is one of the few people who have lived who I honestly believe was a genius. Whether or not you love his books is almost irrelevant when you consider the extraordinary workings of the mind that made them. This quote is priceless. I send you love xxx

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    1. Thanks so much for your lovely visit and comment, Fiona! So good to see you around the blogosphere again!
      And I couldn’t agree more about what you said about Terry Pratchett. A man of his calibre could have lived twice as long as he had and still not reached his peak! Much love! xxx

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      1. It’s been a long while but this move really took it out of me emotionally – more than I expected. And then there were all the practicalities. But I will be writing this week. I have two posts planned …. I’ll try to make them reality! Xxx

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    1. Hehe! 😉 Thanks, Cathi! I can assure this one is the best looking of my shelves. There are huge bookpiles scattered all around my place, sometimes they shrink, then they grow again. I actually have a phobia of too orderly book spaces!! 😂

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    1. I’m sure you would love his books, Tracy. Especially since your love for Garfield proofs that you’ve got an excellent taste in humour. 😉 And that’s right – one can never read enough of his books which is why I always feel the sadness of his early passing everytime anew when I realize that there’s never again coming a new book by him out.

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