Unit 2: Books, Books, Books1 Unit 2:
Books, Books, Books I.
Looks through the list of sayings
about books. Choose 5 that you strongly agree or disagree with, or want to comment on, and share what you think with the class: 1. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. (Groucho Marx) 2. A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. (Daniel J. Boorstein) 3. Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. (John Witherspoon) 4. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon) 5. If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. (Toni Morrison) 6. 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 W. Eliot) 7. A dirty book is rarely dusty. (Author Unknown) 8. It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. (Oscar Wilde) 9. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. (Abraham Lincoln) 10. Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. (Jessamyn West) 11. TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. (Author Unknown) 12. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (Mark Twain) 13. Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." (Helen Exley) 14. Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Henry Ward Beecher) 15. "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. (Franรงois Mauriac) 16. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. (Edmund Burke)