In order to aspire to be our best selves and forge our best nation, we must move beyond the idea that books are extra, relegated to spare time. There's no such thing as spare time. There's always something else besides books in which we could engage. It's up to us to make

LOD. I wonder what amazing things will happen today! It's hard to tell when so much awesome happens every day. Unfortunately, one great event I have NOT experienced is visiting the Portico Library in Manchester, England. It doesn't get much better than this. "It is with

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There's still some summer left, still the opportunity for beach reading. Believe in your book dreams!.#bookslover

LOD. When I have multiple photos of a library I save with a number following the identical file names. This is The Portico Library, Manchester, England7. Tomorrow in the rotation is 8. I don't know where the other six views of this library went. A tragic loss. But it’s still

I'm reasonably competent with these words, and I can even handle "its vs it's." But, you know, as a writer, fighting to lay down a high daily word count to finish a manuscript, trying to stay focused and type quickly, sometimes an error slips threw, and a copyeditor catches it,

LOD. I know that despite all the great things happening every day, some of you are hurting, coping with injury, illness, or loss. All my prayers, my friends. But one way we can shine a light in any darkness and make any light times even brighter is to begin, expand, or improve

You don't really love someone, you're not really a reader, unless you snuggle in next to that person to read a book while suspended on a bizarre cot-thing hundreds of feet above the ground off the side of a cliff. I'm sorry, but if you haven't proved your love like this, your

LOD. Since posting the image from the QT Hotel in Melbourne, Australia yesterday, I've been bombarded by messages from Library Of the Day™ paid subscribers begging for more QT images. Well good luck for you! Here's another look at this remarkable book-wall engineering. You're

What I love about real bookstores is that they're staffed by incredible book people, who can help a reader find exactly the right book based on little more than these clues. It's a wonderful book world. It's up to each of us to embrace that goodness. If you haven't read a book

#books

LOD. I haven't shared many bookscapes from Australia, but dig this massive book wall from QT Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. A huge wall made almost entirely from thousands of old paperback books. Each of those book took an author at least one year to write, probably more.

Very few books move me to this degree. Most books I experience are just good. Good not great. Some irritatingly do not work for me. But most are just OK. Good not great. It's a variable reward schedule, and I keep at it, always searching for that random jackpot book that

LOD. So many great things are happening every single day, all across America! I hope wonderful things are happening for you! Spokane has many excellent bookstores. One of those is Page 42 Bookstore. Dig the display the good folks at Page 42 set up. It's the perfect reminder

LOD. David Walsh gets it! A home library in Athy, Ireland, packed with wonder. Enough there for a lifetime of reading. Isn't it great. Every house in the world should have a room like this. "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.".—Percy Bysshe Shelley,

#poetry

LODWAS. Who remembers this smash hit library picture from 2018? The Redwood Library & Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island. It looks pretty great. And I hope you've had a great weekend!. "Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.".—Christopher Columbus, without

I have not tried this technique yet. I guess talking with people doesn't bother me that much. #bookstagram

LODWAS. What a day! It's the weekend. It's August. So much wonderful is happening everywhere. And I know that amid so much greatness some of you are enduring difficult challenges: illness, loss, difficult recoveries. I pray for you, my friends. Have faith. God is good.

LOD. So much great stuff happens every day! It's hard to keep track of it all! But the best thing that is about to happen soon is my best pal from the war moving back here to the state of Washington after his long, multi-country travels, after retiring as a Turbo Sergeant from

I don't care what the Dominion says. Dr. Seuss was simply the best. My child has been at church camp all week. Right now, reading to her sounds like the greatest thing in the world. #BOOKSえみたす