What’s on my nightstand? Archer’s Quest, by Linda Sue Park.

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. –Thomas Carlyle

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. –Angela Carter

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. –John Locke

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. –Mortimer J. Adler

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. –Hazel Rochman