No, I'm not giving these books away - I just got them!
They cost me $1 apiece.
Almost free.
I picked these up yesterday from our community library Book Sale room ... the "back room", where I go to cheaply satisfy my severe book addiction.
(Please don't judge me; as far as addictions go, it's one of the better ones, don't you think?)
Anyway ... I believe even if books aren't free, they hold the key to freedom.
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." ~ Frederick Douglass
"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us." ~ Franz Kafka, 1904
"The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
~ The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1964
"The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more you learn, the more places you'll go."
~ Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"
"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!"
~ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
(This is my contribution to Jillsy's One Word Wednesday. The word is "Free"! Click HERE to read the other contributions or to learn how to play along.)
