Books, quotes, and April 1st

Volume 3 of the April 1st Project is quickly coming to an end. Below are some highlights along with the latest photographs:

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
A graphic novel, powerful for its simplicity of both story and illustration. I highly recommend this book.

A few more books to explore:

      Thinking About Memoir by Abigail Thomas
      Stateside by Jehanne Dubrow
      Stop-Time by Frank Conroy
      The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr

Words by others, aka quotes, are always of interest to me. Some new ones that I found memorable:

      "In life as in chess, forethought wins."

          - Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

      "Joy is the daughter of peace."

          - Finnish Proverb

      "Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin."

          - Grace Hansen

      "Leadership starts to crumble when it becomes inconsistent."

          - Kevin O'Connor

      "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

          - Indira Gandhi

From a writing contest on the Worst Sentence of 2010, the winning line (prepare yourself):

For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil.

Doesn't that just gross you out? It does me.