If you haven’t read Lord of the Flies, you are missing true adventure and a sickening heartache for mankind and what it can do to each other.

Even in today’s world, the proverbial death of Piggy seems to happen everyday when I read the news. 

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”

—William Golding, Lord of the Flies

Sad admittance, but a very true one.

“When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time — the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers.”

—John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

Stay Gold! Advice to take with you and remember when someone has you feeling your worst.

“Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”

—S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders

Kissing. And more kissing. And more. And more. That’s how to make her smile. There’s actually scientific evidence on this. Google it.

Snicket advice…books that lead life.

Stephen King advice about books, but also can be compared to love, life, and dreams.

Even between lovers, one should always seek adventures to entice each new day to be the same different from the last. Dreams do just that. Life, well, most of us love a good adventure, whether it life or with Bilbo Baggins.

Logophile…ode to the readers of this world.

That urge to travel so far into words and the pages of a book. Hmm! I’m feeling it.

Book words to make you smell the book pages of the book sitting beside you now as you look at your media screen.

It was a dark and stormy night…” Advice for your next read. Someone asked me to list all the books that start with the line. So here goes one a day for the month of August–back to school month.

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