The Beast Is The Monster That Destroys

What I Do With My Books Is To Create Windows To My World That All May Peer Into. I Share The Images, The Feelings And Thoughts, And, I Hope, The Delight.

I Read A Lot Of Comic Books And Any Kind Of Thing I Could Find. One Day, A Teacher Found Me. She Grabbed My Comic Book And Tore It Up. I Was Really Upset, But Then She Brought In A Pile Of Books From Her Own Library. That Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.

They Take Away Your Shoelaces And Your Belt So You Can’t Kill Yourself No Matter How Bad It Is. I Guess Making You Live Is Part Of The Punishment.

I Joined The Army On My Seventeenth Birthday, Full Of The Romance Of War After Having Read A Lot Of World War I British Poetry And Having Seen A Lot Of Post-world War Ii Films. I Thought The Romantic Presentations Of War Influenced My Joining And My Presentation Of War To My Younger Siblings.

We’re Suggesting That [kids Are] Missing Something If They Don’t Read But, Actually, We’re Condemning Kids To A Lesser Life. If You Had A Sick Patient, You Would Not Try To Entice Them To Take Their Medicine. You Would Tell Them, ‘take This Or You’re Going To Die.’ We Need To Tell Kids Flat Out: Reading Is Not Optional.