Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people’s books, one’s own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here, reading a page from one over there, enjoying them all as objects to be touched, looked at, even smelt, is a deep satisfaction. And often, very often, while browsing haphazardly, looking for nothing in particular, you pick up a volume that suddenly excites you, and you know that this one of all the others you must read. Those are great moments - and the books we come across like that are often the most memorable.
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Okay so I was tagged by whispersofthesilentwind Thanks!
Rules:
What are your 15 favorite movies
What are the 10 shows that you watch?
15 bands or musicians you listen to?
3 interests beyond books?
So now I am going to tag book-nerds-place and pumpkinpatch212
Don’t read or buy books you have no interest in simply because you think it will impress others. Reading is supposed to be fun, not stressful.
Don’t turn your nose up at people who have different reading tastes; or at those who prefer e-books to physical ones or paperbacks to hardbacks.
Read what you want, when you want, and how you want.
Be mindful of your bank account in the process.
what some people don’t understand is when I say that I’m addicted to books I don’t just mean that I’m addicted to reading books I mean that I’m addicted with picking a book from my bookshelf just to open it and sniff it just to put it back again, I mean that I’m addicted with walking around bookstores/libraries just looking at books even if I already have the book,
I’M A BOOKAHOLIC, OKAY?
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, it must be said, 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. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.
So, I know how we’re all still really sad about our favorite characters dying in our most beloved books, but I had a moment of clarity- None of them are ever really dead until we stop reading the books. We can keep going back to the time when they were happy and alive as many times as we want.
And that’s just really fantastic.
When you’re trying to get your friend to read your favourite book like… #books #reading #throneofglass
This. Is. AMAZING.
Under the covers: “Please read it.”
In the bathroom: “READ IT!”
I haven’t read TOG, but I feel this sentiment hardcore.
*whispers* Read it
Reading is for everyone.
I don’t care if you’re a girl.
I don’t care if you’re a guy.
I don’t care if you haven’t decided what gender you are yet.
I don’t care if you’re a dragon.
Or a sheep.
If you want to read, you pick of the damn book and read it.
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words to live by. (via thefaultsinourwallflowers)
Oh gosh, it’s a thing :))) Thank you, this is so awesome :D
(via books-and-cookies)
Reading about everyday fictional teens rising to the occasion…allows actual teens to imagine themselves doing the same, within the lower-stakes conflicts and contexts of their own lives. This is empowering, and hopeful, words that I would use to describe many YA books. Even the dark ones. Especially the dark ones. These “dark” books may seem to be about death, about illness, about pain, but really they are about life.
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