Monday, March 12, 2012

Blogspiration #9 & Memorable Monday



Blogspiration is a weekly meme hosted by GrowingUpYA and Saz101. The meme was created to help spark inspiration among bloggers, readers and writers alike. An inspirational quote/picture/video is posted weekly, on the day of the author's choosing, so that it may inspire creativity, conversation or just a little SOMETHING.






Plain and simple!


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Welcome to the first ever Memorable Monday meme at Escape In A Book! To celebrate this; they are giving away a book to one of this weeks participants.

Want to know more about this meme?
Check out this post!

1. Share a quote that has captured your interest lately in a Memorable Monday post on your blog. Feel free to grab my logo (download it to your computer first).
2. Come back here and leave the link to your post in our inlinkz widget.
3. It would be nice if you visited one or two of the other participants.
4. If you tweet your posts then feel free to use the hastag #MemorableMonday

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. 
- A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)
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14 comments:

  1. "To red is to fly..." So true! I especially love the bit about how it gives a view of shared experience. That's exactly how I feel connecting with other readers!

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    1. Thanks! I love feeling that connection too!

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  2. Thanks for joing in on Memorable Monday, Danielle:-) I loved your quote on reading, so well put.

    I'm sorry to say that the giveaway you mentioned ended a few weeks ago(but we do have another giveaway going on atm).

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    1. Oh crap. Sorry, I always copy and paste the same thing each week. Looks like I need to modify it a little!

      :ove doing this each week. While read, I write down my favorite quotes and pick my favorite.

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  3. Hahaha I've seen this around a lot and I totally agree! Reading keeps me calm, too :)

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  4. The quote is so true. Reading is like flying - except that I'm afraid of flying (at least in a plane or anything else build by humans) and I'm not afraid of reading. So reading wins. And anyway I think it's really more about the feeling to be free and above anything else and to see the world from a different perspective. And that totally sounds like reading to me.

    Also, your inspirational picture is very great. I love it.

    You can find my Memorable Monday over here

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    1. I visited! And loved you quote. Very beautiful.

      I might repost what you just wrote on here. That, in itself, is a grerat quote!

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  5. Seriously, I couldn't have seen this at a BETTER time! When life gets stressful, crazy, or upsetting I need to remember to keep calm and read a book :D

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  6. whenever i am stressed, i read a book! Great quote!! simple and sweet. i always wanted to fly, turns out, i already have, according to you! (and Grayling)

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    1. Haha. We should flock together then cause I'm always flying.

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  7. Great quote! Like Kristin, I couldn't have seen this at a better time. *g* I should definitely read a book now. Heheh.

    Patricia // My Memorable Monday

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  8. Ahahaha! DANIELLE! I LOVE it! Oh goodness, my mum is obsessed with the 'Keep Calm And...' things, but this is seriously the best yet ;D

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