Bookworm, I'm a bookworm
Apr. 6th, 2011 05:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agt_spookyJohn and I are still doing our spring cleaning and yesterday I came across my favorite bookmark, which I thought I'd lost, but it had simply slipped between some pieces of paper on my desk.
Anyway...why is this my favorite bookmark, you ask? It's nothing fancy. Just light blue with a simple yellow flower on it that I got for free at a bargain bookstore many, many years ago. What made it my favorite was the quote that was written on it...
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." - W. Somerset Maugham
I was really struck by those words, because for me, that's completely true. I've used books since I was a child to escape from real life for a little while. To forget my troubles and go on an adventure with the characters in the pages.
What about you? Does that quote ring true for you, too? Or has reading never been about escaping, but just pure enjoyment? Do you have a favorite quote that pertains to reading?
Anyway...why is this my favorite bookmark, you ask? It's nothing fancy. Just light blue with a simple yellow flower on it that I got for free at a bargain bookstore many, many years ago. What made it my favorite was the quote that was written on it...
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." - W. Somerset Maugham
I was really struck by those words, because for me, that's completely true. I've used books since I was a child to escape from real life for a little while. To forget my troubles and go on an adventure with the characters in the pages.
What about you? Does that quote ring true for you, too? Or has reading never been about escaping, but just pure enjoyment? Do you have a favorite quote that pertains to reading?
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Date: 2011-04-07 01:48 pm (UTC)LOL! I was wondering if I'd see a comment from you on this topic!
I don't even dare tell you how many I own. On my bookcases, in boxes in my basement, my attic, my parent's attic, my parent's barn, my sister's storage shed…
You could start your OWN library! I mourn the loss of a lot of my books. My parents house was small, so I only had one bookshelf so I could only keep my most favorite ones. And even after I got married I haven't lived anywhere large until this house. So now I have THREE bookcases. :-) I often envy the houses you seen on HGTV who have built in bookcases.
(And that doesn't count the 3,000 (approximately) I buy each year for work…)
You've got the best job any bookworm could want! :-)