Welcome to the CMS LMC Summer Reading Challenge!

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
^{- A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)}

“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
^{- Arthur Christopher Benson}

“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.”
^{- Barrow}


“Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”
^{- Bell Hooks}


“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
^{- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones}


“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
^{- Confucius}

“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
^{- Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"}


“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
^{- Frederick Douglass}