Books can be dangerous… 

The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." 

~Helen Exley 1943- South African-British book editor and

publisher

Why Do Books Matter?

To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence

National Endowment for the Arts Research Study (November 2007)

http://www.nea.gov/research/ToRead.pdf

Study Findings: “Books change lives for the better!”

No matter what their educational level, regular readers are more likely to:

• achieve academic and economic success

• attend more music and theater events

• exercise and participate in sports

• “understand and appreciate the outlook of others while enlarging their own identity”

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without

breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in

your face.  It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's

mind can get both provocation and privacy.

  ~Edward P. Morgan 1910-1993, American

journalist and news broadcaster

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

~Salman Rushdie 1947- , Indian-British novelist and essayist

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” 

~Richard Steele 1672-1729, Irish writer and politician

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to

be chewed on and digested. ~ Francis Bacon b. 1561-1626, English philosopher, statesman

and essayist

Save A Book!

How to decide…?

• Famous?• Favorite?• Female?• Fiction?• Functional?

My Choice…

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

(Rev. Charles Dodgson)

“Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you

can't help it. 

~Oscar Wilde 1854-1900, Irish playwright, novelist, poet

Thank you!