April's Bookish Art...

Harold Harvey -- Holiday 

"I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy.  And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child.  I still believe in stories.  I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.  Books are, for me...the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything.  And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books."

--Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale