"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, 

but minds alive on the shelves."

- Gilbert Highet

http://impertinentremarks.com/2012/10/12-quotes-about-reading/

... and is it not so that one opens up one's own mind whenever one opens a book? Oh, I so much love books, and that surely is the reason why I like bookmarks as well, they just sweeten the moment when I open a book.

These here are done with my beloved Ginkgo leaves, 

and when two leaves are put together like this they both form 

a new figure, which I like.

The book shown above is by Jennifer Chiaverini, 

it's "Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker", 

a wonderful novel.