Well Read

Online retailer of 2nd hand books. All genres available - from 1st editions to the common paperback.

24/02/2022

“As I go to bed, I think how awful it would be to die in the middle of reading a good novel.”
― Valérie Perrin, Cambiare l'acqua ai fiori

23/02/2022

“Recommending a book to someone is the second best thing to buying it for them, which is the second best thing to reading it for them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

22/02/2022

“You have a false understanding of what it means to read. Reading is not just turning printed signs into sounds. Reading is something deeper. True reading means hearing what the book has to say and pondering it— perhaps even having a conversation in your mind with the author. It means learning about the world— the world as it really is, not as you wish it to be.”
― J.M. Coetzee, The Death of Jesus

21/02/2022

Book of the day:

One Good Turn
(Jackson Brodie #2)
by Kate Atkinson

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect.

As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. They are all looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.

18/02/2022

“If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

17/02/2022

“Woe be to him that reads but one book.”
― George Herbert

16/02/2022

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

15/02/2022

“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good:
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.”
― William Wordsworth

14/02/2022

Book of the day:

Catching the Sun
Author: Tony Parsons

Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When taxi driver Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, he leaves broken Britain and takes his wife and children to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of - a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow. But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll. Catching the Sun is a gripping, moving story of a family who go in search of Paradise -- and end up discovering themselves.

11/02/2022

“Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

10/02/2022

“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

09/02/2022

“The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick

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