Adventure Bookshelf

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. “
T.S. Eliot
The staff at Adventure Bookshelf has recently started reading The Adventure Blog. Yeah, were easy - just tack the word adventure to a decent amount of writing and we’ll come shuffling around, like a kid in bunny [...]

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To paraphrase Lao-tzu:
‘A journey of 78,00 miles begins with a single twist of the throttle.’

” I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
Anna Quindlen
Technology everyday is becoming more pervasive in children’s lives. While this is not necessarily a bad thing - movies, television, video games & communication devices all compete for a [...]

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
- Louis Lamour
Well, as we head into December we have come to the end of our first [...]

But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon…
Good old Harold, living proof that quick thinking and imagination will take a person far in this world. Equipped only with his trusty purple crayon he journeys through a landscape of creativity - into forests, across oceans, through the sky in a balloon. A seashore picnic [...]

“Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.”
- Walter Sickers
If you love a book, set it free.
BookCrossing.com is a very cool website where members can release books into the wild and then track their journeys online. The process involves registering the book you intend to [...]