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Rabu, 06 November 2013
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
— George R.R. Martin (A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5))
— George R.R. Martin (A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5))
Albert Einstein
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein
— Albert Einstein
Senin, 04 November 2013
I am happy that my daughter is a girl who reads!
"You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making.
Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book. Buy her another cup of coffee. Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does. She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype. You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it.
You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes."
— Rosemarie Urquico
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making.
Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book. Buy her another cup of coffee. Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does. She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype. You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it.
You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes."
— Rosemarie Urquico
Charles William Eliot
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles William Eliot
― Charles William Eliot
7 alasan mengapa membaca merupakan hobi terbaik
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Dengan membaca, kamu tidak hanya menambah pengetahuan tapi juga kamu menjadi lebih self-aware. Berikut ini adalah beberapa alasan mengapa membaca adalah hobi terbaik:
Memberikan pengetahuan
Ini adalah alasan utama untuk membaca. Kalau kamu membaca setidaknya satu buku dalam seminggu, maka kamu bisa mendapatkan pengetahuan yang luas akan sesuatu dan juga keadaan. Pengetahuan ini akan berguna untuk kehidupan kamu sehari-hari. Selain itu, membaca juga bisa membantu meningkatkan IQ kamu.
Memperkaya kosakata
Membaca buku secara teratur bisa membantu kamu untuk menambah kosakata. Sebagian besar buku yang diterbitkan sudah melewati proses penyaringan untuk keakuratan kosakata dan juga tata bahasa. Ketika kamu membaca buku yang memiliki tata bahasa akurat, maka ini juga bisa membantu untuk memperkaya kosakata kamu.
Meningkatkan komunikasi
Membaca bisa membantu meningkatkan keterampilan berkomunikasi kamu. Dengan membaca, kamu bisa mendapatkan kepercayaan diri saat berbicara. Kalau kamu punya kemampuan berbahasa yang bagus, membaca bisa secara alami meningkatkan kepercayaan diri kamu.
Mengurangi stres
Membaca ternyata juga bisa mengurangi rasa stres. Stres adalah masalah umum yang terjadi akibat kepadatan kerja atau kesibukan sehari-hari. Ketika kamu meluangkan waktu untuk membaca, kamu akan melupakan hal-hal lain dan tenggelam di dalamnya. Membaca akan mengalihkan perhatian kamu, sehingga stres pun berkurang.
Meningkatkan memori dan mood
Membaca seperti pembangkit mood instan. Membaca bisa membantu kamu untuk melupakan segala sesuatu di sekitarmu; membaca juga membantu untuk mengangkat mood kamu. Buku-buku tentang pengembangan diri bisa memuat kamu tetap berpikir positif. Dengan membaca buku-buku dengan pesan positif, kamu tidak akan memikirkan hal-hal dan keadaan negatif. Membaca juga bisa membantu untuk meningkatkan memori kamu dan juga meningkatkan konsentrasi.
Mengusir kesepian
Kalau buku adalah sahabat kamu, maka kamu tidak memerlukan orang lain dalam hidup kamu. Membaca membantu kamu ketika kamu merasa sedih atau kesepian. Agar kamu merasa lebih relax, ambillah buku dan mulai membaca. Jika kamu terbiasa untuk membaca, maka kamu tidak akan pernah merasa kesepian.
Teman travelling paling menyenangkan
Kalau kamu tidak mau travelling sendirian, buatlah buku menjadi teman kamu. Membaca dan travelling adalah kombinasi yang sangat bagus. Kamu bisa memperoleh pengetahuan dan awareness dengan membaca.
http://id.she.yahoo.com/7-alasan-mengapa-membaca-adalah-hobi-terbaik-100000729.html
Dengan membaca, kamu tidak hanya menambah pengetahuan tapi juga kamu menjadi lebih self-aware. Berikut ini adalah beberapa alasan mengapa membaca adalah hobi terbaik:
Memberikan pengetahuan
Ini adalah alasan utama untuk membaca. Kalau kamu membaca setidaknya satu buku dalam seminggu, maka kamu bisa mendapatkan pengetahuan yang luas akan sesuatu dan juga keadaan. Pengetahuan ini akan berguna untuk kehidupan kamu sehari-hari. Selain itu, membaca juga bisa membantu meningkatkan IQ kamu.
Memperkaya kosakata
Membaca buku secara teratur bisa membantu kamu untuk menambah kosakata. Sebagian besar buku yang diterbitkan sudah melewati proses penyaringan untuk keakuratan kosakata dan juga tata bahasa. Ketika kamu membaca buku yang memiliki tata bahasa akurat, maka ini juga bisa membantu untuk memperkaya kosakata kamu.
Meningkatkan komunikasi
Membaca bisa membantu meningkatkan keterampilan berkomunikasi kamu. Dengan membaca, kamu bisa mendapatkan kepercayaan diri saat berbicara. Kalau kamu punya kemampuan berbahasa yang bagus, membaca bisa secara alami meningkatkan kepercayaan diri kamu.
Mengurangi stres
Membaca ternyata juga bisa mengurangi rasa stres. Stres adalah masalah umum yang terjadi akibat kepadatan kerja atau kesibukan sehari-hari. Ketika kamu meluangkan waktu untuk membaca, kamu akan melupakan hal-hal lain dan tenggelam di dalamnya. Membaca akan mengalihkan perhatian kamu, sehingga stres pun berkurang.
Meningkatkan memori dan mood
Membaca seperti pembangkit mood instan. Membaca bisa membantu kamu untuk melupakan segala sesuatu di sekitarmu; membaca juga membantu untuk mengangkat mood kamu. Buku-buku tentang pengembangan diri bisa memuat kamu tetap berpikir positif. Dengan membaca buku-buku dengan pesan positif, kamu tidak akan memikirkan hal-hal dan keadaan negatif. Membaca juga bisa membantu untuk meningkatkan memori kamu dan juga meningkatkan konsentrasi.
Mengusir kesepian
Kalau buku adalah sahabat kamu, maka kamu tidak memerlukan orang lain dalam hidup kamu. Membaca membantu kamu ketika kamu merasa sedih atau kesepian. Agar kamu merasa lebih relax, ambillah buku dan mulai membaca. Jika kamu terbiasa untuk membaca, maka kamu tidak akan pernah merasa kesepian.
Teman travelling paling menyenangkan
Kalau kamu tidak mau travelling sendirian, buatlah buku menjadi teman kamu. Membaca dan travelling adalah kombinasi yang sangat bagus. Kamu bisa memperoleh pengetahuan dan awareness dengan membaca.
http://id.she.yahoo.com/7-alasan-mengapa-membaca-adalah-hobi-terbaik-100000729.html
Sabtu, 02 November 2013
Dr. Seuss
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
The greatest gift is a passion for READING! - Elizabeth Hardwick
Hardwick was the author of three novels: The Ghostly Lover (1945), The Simple Truth (1955), and Sleepless Nights (1979). A collection of her short fiction, The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick, was published in 2010. She also published four books of criticism: A View of My Own (1962), Seduction and Betrayal (1974), Bartleby in Manhattan (1983), and Sight-Readings (1998). In 1961 she edited The Selected Letters of William James and in 2000 she published a short biography, Herman Melville, in Viking Press's Penguin Lives series.
She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to a strict Protestant family. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947.
In 1959, Hardwick published in Harper's, "The Decline of Book Reviewing," a generally harsh and even scathing critique of book reviews published in American periodicals of the time. The 1962 New York City newspaper strike helped inspire Hardwick, Robert Lowell, Jason Epstein, Barbara Epstein, and Robert B. Silvers to establish The New York Review of Books, a publication that became as much a habit for many readers as The New York Times Book Review, which Hardwick had eviscerated in her 1959 essay.
In the '70s and early '80s, Hardwick taught writing seminars at Barnard College and Columbia University's School of the Arts, Writing Division. She gave forthright critiques of student writing and was a mentor to students she considered promising.
From 1949 to 1972 she was married to the poet Robert Lowell; their daughter is Harriet Lowell.
In 2008, The Library of America selected Hardwick's account of Caryl Chessman's crimes for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime writing.
She died in 2007 in Manhattan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hardwick_(writer)
She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to a strict Protestant family. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947.
In 1959, Hardwick published in Harper's, "The Decline of Book Reviewing," a generally harsh and even scathing critique of book reviews published in American periodicals of the time. The 1962 New York City newspaper strike helped inspire Hardwick, Robert Lowell, Jason Epstein, Barbara Epstein, and Robert B. Silvers to establish The New York Review of Books, a publication that became as much a habit for many readers as The New York Times Book Review, which Hardwick had eviscerated in her 1959 essay.
In the '70s and early '80s, Hardwick taught writing seminars at Barnard College and Columbia University's School of the Arts, Writing Division. She gave forthright critiques of student writing and was a mentor to students she considered promising.
From 1949 to 1972 she was married to the poet Robert Lowell; their daughter is Harriet Lowell.
In 2008, The Library of America selected Hardwick's account of Caryl Chessman's crimes for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime writing.
She died in 2007 in Manhattan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hardwick_(writer)
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