Books have been my best friends for as long as I can remember, which is ever since I've been able to read. I craved books as a child, and fitted in reading time around other activities - an early arrival to school meant fifteen more pages of the latest book could be enjoyed, brief snatches of different worlds and different circumstances filling my days and brightening my nights with a little extra light.
In between the pages, there's always a new world to discover. I've come to realize, as I grow up, that I can't read ALL the books - there simply isn't enough time to read all the best stories, let alone the middling books and the low-grade trash. Who really needs to learn the seven habits of highly effective people, or how to lose that last five pounds with three easy workouts of fifteen minutes or less? I'll take my sci-fi straight, thanks, and serve it up with a buffet of fantasy, mystery, comedy, and adventure (to name a few).
I've recently acquired an ereader, a gift from my lovely but rather un-literary boyfriend. This has made reading on the go even easier for me, since it's compact, has a battery life comfortably measured in weeks, and best of all, I can carry round just over a thousand books with room left over in a small bag. It's especially good for those pesky kid's series, where each novel is a hundred pages of large print, which can be inhaled in a few hours. All the same, I miss print books just as much as I expected I was going to, and given the choice, I'd opt to have paper versions of all my books, practicality be damned.
The general point of this blog is to have a place to put my literary rambles. I've been recording books I've finished in 2012 in a notebook, and they will be transferred onto this blog in the coming weeks, with brief notes about the ones I found memorable. I also have a notebook listing the best reads I've had in the last year or two, and I may transpose those here also - both to keep them safe, and to share them with anyone who ends up reading this.
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