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Top Ten Tuesday: Quotes about Reading

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.


Hello friends! Itโ€™s been one hectic week, and this list for todayโ€™s TTT is one that took a while to gather together. This week I have compiled quotes on the love of reading and storytelling. After all, if you enjoy reading, Iโ€™m sure itโ€™s for a variety of reasons as these quotes suggest. Life can be lived through the words we read, and they most definitely shape our worldview. While my own words may not be as eloquent, I hope these quotes and/or books showcase the beauty and love I personally have for reading in my own life.

I hope you enjoy! Let me know in the comments below if any of these quotes resonate with you.

1. Familiar stories told in a whole new way

โ€œI am going to tell you a story you already know. But listen carefully, because within it is one you have never heard before.โ€

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

2. The beauty and importance of libraries

โ€œLibraries are lungs…books the fresh air breathed in to keep the heart beating, to keep the brain imagining, to keep hope alive.โ€

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

3. We are what we love

โ€œWe are the books we read and the things we love.โ€

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

4. A whole new world unfurling within a bookโ€™s pages

โ€œThis is a book, and a book is a world, and words are the seeds in which meanings are curled. Pages of oceans and margins of land are civilizations you hold in the palm of your hand.โ€

The Reader by Traci Chee

5. The long-lasting impact of books

โ€œThe books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.โ€

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

6. There are always more to explore

โ€œLife is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.โ€

Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

7. When my heart soars and breaks

โ€œWhen I read, I feel emotion all on my own. Emotion no living person is making me feel.โ€

Pivot Point by Kasie West

8. We leave parts of ourselves in stories

โ€œIsnโ€™t it odd how much fatter a book gets when youโ€™ve read it several times?…As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar.โ€

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

9. Love of reading propels us to great lengths

โ€œA half-read book is a half-finished love affair.โ€

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

10. Many lives lived

โ€œA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.โ€

A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

If itโ€™s one thing I appreciate in life, it is this ability to share life through the power of words and the emotions invoked. Do you have any quotes about our shared love of reading that resonates with you? Please share below!

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Let’s Talk Bookish – How Do You Create Bookish Content?

Letโ€™s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme, hosted byย Rukky @ Eternity Booksย &ย Dani @ Literary Lion,ย where they discuss certain topics, share their opinions, and spread the love by visiting each othersโ€™ posts.

MAY 21: HOW DO YOU CREATE BOOKISH CONTENT?ย (RUKKY)

Prompts:ย Whatโ€™s your posting process? Do you write posts based on spontaneous ideas or do you follow a schedule of topics? How do you decide what and what not to post (maybe you feel like some things are too controversial or โ€œout of dateโ€)? Do you tailor your posts based on reader interaction/views, or do you just focus on what you want to talk about?

Happy Friday everyone! This week’s LTB topic seems to be more of a personal reflection and discussion and I will answer it for myself, though undoubtedly Andge has her own unique way of approaching posts too. We do try and coordinate our posts to be more coherent as a whole though, of course.

Since we have two writers here, generally we just plan out with each other the scheduling of posts that will come out. Not only does this split the work load, but also maintains a clear vision as to what needs to be executed each week. Now I make it sound so mechanistic but really we take it pretty relaxed here, and just discuss what content we want to put out each week.

If you have been a follower here for any length of time, you probably know our style by now. Mostly it follows a schedule, with a sprinkling of special posts here and there. We do have some occasional spontaneous posts, but those are usually initiated by external factors such as holidays or particular world events. Other than that, I think we’re both (at least I speak for myself) the type of people who like to plan ahead, and not just post on a whim.

We don’t usually pick up topics that are rather controversial nor out of date. However, of course we think about what might be well or less-well received. If we have a strong stance on a topic and we feel strongly about it, it’s likely we’ll just post about it anyway. This is our platform, our voice, why not use it, right? It’s okay to have an opinion, as long as you remain respectful of other’s opinions as well, I think. At least that’s how I personally see it.

A part of us always wants to attract more readers and followers, but not for the sole sake of the numbers. We obviously want people to be genuinely interested in our content and/or the reviews that we provide here. That being said, we also want to stay true to ourselves and post about things that we also care about. We are here to express ourselves as much as we want to provide a pleasant experience for you all here who follow us (thank you so much, by the way!).

We are always on the lookout for new ideas of what people might want to see here at Down The Rabbit Hole! Please let us know if you have any suggestions of what you might want to see more or less of. We love hearing back from you! This will help us push out the content that you all want to see. Don’t be shy to message either of us with comments and suggestions, we definitely look for it.

How do you all write your posts? Do you find that people have a style and stick to it? Do you know bloggers who change their style all the time? Let me know in the comments below!


5 star, YA

Review: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Alex Stern #1

Galaxy โ€œAlexโ€ Stern is the most unlikely member of Yaleโ€™s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say sheโ€™s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the worldโ€™s most elite universities on a full ride. Whatโ€™s the catch, and why her?

Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yaleโ€™s secret societies. These eight windowless โ€œtombsโ€ are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywoodโ€™s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.



This one was simply brilliant. A bit longer than the books I normally read, but every bit was worth it. Andge and I both agree on this 5 Drink Me Potions rating, with only one slight knock that we agreed on. How do I even describe this book? It’s an…urban…fantasy…mystery? Elements of history? It’s actually hard to put a finger on, but either way, we absolutely enjoyed it.

Ninth House is about a world where magic is real. But not the kind that you’re thinking of (Expelliarmus!), but much more sinister in nature, with rituals and summonings and illusions. The world building of this fantasy is actually amazing, more amazing than anything I’ve read (about magic) in a long while. A brief introduction is that magic is based around these “tombs” or “nexuses” where magic converges, and each of the eight Houses of the Veil can deploy a specific type of magic using these power points.

Alex Stern, our protagonist, gets sucked into this world in New Haven. Just why was she chosen to become a part of it?

First of all, can I just say that the name Galaxy is amazing. Yes we know her by Alex basically the entire novel, but shortening Galaxy into Alex is pretty cool. And it’s not just for the sake of having a cool name, since names are quite important in this fantastical world. Not only that though, she is a strong-willed character, fiery and fierce, with the will to survive stronger than anything. And with the amount that she’s been through, I don’t blame her at all.

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