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I really fucking love books

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MrsMakka · 29/04/2017 19:31

I do. They are the one constant in my life, they've never let me down. It doesn't matter what happens during the day, 7.30pm, DC in bed,out comes the pile (or the Kindle).

I don't have money for holidays - doesn't matter because after 7.30 I can travel to any country I like, and some that don't even exist. When there's no happy endings in real life, open a book and you're swimming in them.

I love them. They're the best things ever. My life would be a barren, lonely wasteland without them. Books have given me so much. Wonderful, clever people out there have written them just to enrich my life, to give me pleasure, or knowledge, to help me relax, mostly for free as their book costs me nothing from the library (or £2.81 from Amazon at the most)

Fabulous bloody things.

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RufusTheRenegadeReindeer · 29/04/2017 19:57

How is being literate

Very MN

What the fuck does that mean

girlandboy · 29/04/2017 19:58

KindergartenKop have you read the time travel series by Jodi Taylor. I LOVE the time travel/slip genre!

KindergartenKop · 29/04/2017 20:00

I'm currently reading one recommended on here about a woman going back to the black death. It's opened up a whole genre of sci-fi which I never considered!

Destinysdaughter · 29/04/2017 20:01

Me too! So much wisdom, knowledge, love and entertainment, I adore a really good book! Smile

user1471545174 · 29/04/2017 20:01

Agree, OP!

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MrsMakka · 29/04/2017 20:01

It means that smoke is practising reverse snobbery, strange because I come from an extremely working class family of unskilled seasonal/agricultural workers who had no money, and struggled all their lives, but one thing they all had in common was books and reading - they were very, very proud of their literacy skills. My grandmother read everything about the Tudors she could get her hands on- she plucked chickens for a living.

As you were. I'm always in the market for some good recommendations. I'm currently reading a YA book about goblins, it's all a bit Labyrinth and not usually my thing, but I'm really enjoying it

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Destinysdaughter · 29/04/2017 20:02

I had a male decorator last year that couldn't believe how many books I had, he said he found reading boring. I didn't say anything but inside I was thinking, WTF??

Isadora2007 · 29/04/2017 20:03

Storage for books is an issue. And having them somewhere handy for the kids.
My older two were read to religiously. Neither are readers to my utter chagrin.
The younger two don't get read to nearly enough. I'm a bad book mother these days. I can't seem to find good storage. That's my excuse.

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MrsMakka · 29/04/2017 20:03

If you like time travel, The Phantom Tree is a really great read.

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SplitInfinitive · 29/04/2017 20:12

My people :) Lovely thread 📚 💛

I read every day and it doesnt feel right if I haven't managed to. I am reading a book at the moment, which is keeping me completely gripped - Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence. It's YA but is fantastic so far.

MitzyLeFrouf · 29/04/2017 20:12

'Have to say I don't think I can bring myself to swop a book for a kindle though. Would just feel like another screen to look at'

I read an article during the week that said sales of ebooks have taken a significant tumble in the past year while the sales of physical books has increased. I found that quite surprising but maybe it's due to people reaching peak screen!

Destinysdaughter · 29/04/2017 20:13

I must admit, studying literature for A level and in my degree put me off reading for pleasure for a while, but I love it now!

OCSockOrphanage · 29/04/2017 20:14

Solace is between the pages. If it's new, it's exciting. If you've read it before, it's soothing (and you can put it down to go back to sleep) or it takes you into a world, real or imagined, that's history, or fact, or a story. And information... if anyone knows something important, it's written down for you, you to follow the journey.

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MrsMakka · 29/04/2017 20:15

I'm increasingly finding that YA hits the spot when "adult" books don't. The quality of some YA literature is fantastic, yet you get the sense the author isn't having to look over their shoulder at critics/reviews all the time. So they can cut loose and really go to town, without having to worry about their voice, or what they're saying about modern society and relationships blah blah.

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OCSockOrphanage · 29/04/2017 20:17

destinysdaughter, agreed. A level English is a pleasure drain, so I didn't grit my teeth through the pain to an english lit degree. But it's mostly about fiction, and I like non-fiction just as much so I read other stuff.

Destinysdaughter · 29/04/2017 20:19

I really enjoy modern literature, I find it helps me make sense of the world. There's also so many v good female authors around these days.

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MrsMakka · 29/04/2017 20:20

I would believe that Mitzy. I do love my kindle, but if I really love a book I want to buy it in hardcopy as well. This is shallow, but I've noticed a lot of books recently have really beautiful covers - The Essex Serpent for example. I first got it on Kindle, but I bought it in hardcopy as well because as well as being a book I love /will reread, it's a beautiful object in itself.

Also a lot of kindle books are just too expensive considering you're not getting something you can touch. I will happily pay £ 7 for something I can hold in my hand, but not for a digital copy. Kindle used to be cheaper than new paperbacks and now it isn't - so you might as well get the paper back

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allthatnonsense · 29/04/2017 20:21

I just dream about books, about having more time to read books.
I find myself eyeing up new places for cosy book reading nooks.

Whatthefoxgoingon · 29/04/2017 20:21

Totally agree with you OP. Another bookworm here. I am lucky to have a library at home, full to the brim. I refused to buy a house without a room I could dedicate to floor to ceiling shelves. Can't stand reading on a screen though!

I like time travel. Any recommendations?

ScarlettDarling · 29/04/2017 20:23

MrsMakka I'm in complete agreement about the cracking YA stuff around now. When I think of the dross I read as a teen (Sweet Valley High anyone?) I am thrilled that my own dc have such a load of great stuff around to keep them reading.

Destinysdaughter · 29/04/2017 20:24

Agree about kindle, it's convenient, especially for travelling but v expensive for books now. There's also so much shite on them!

ShamefulDodger · 29/04/2017 20:24

I love reading books 😁

So much so I've written quite a few of my own (not published, I just like doing it...and then reading them)

Poor DH despairs, I've got books, notes and files spilling out of every room of the house except where the children roam, they are destroyers of books, I give them the cardboard ones Grin

squishysquirmy · 29/04/2017 20:24

Me too!
Its the perfect escapism. I've always loved fiction, but within the last year or so I've got into poetry (just whatever I pick up in the library) and that's opened up a whole new world.
Sometimes I worry that I find it too easy to escape into a book, iyswim? I worry that if I'm not disciplined I will neglect the real world.

OCSockOrphanage · 29/04/2017 20:24

That said, DS is loving his English A level (it's the aspects of crime version). However, he needs a novelist to read, who has to be English or British, first language, for A2. He was thinking H P Lovecraft and the American Gothic tradition but it doesn't fit because it's American. Any ideas? I am thinking/suggesting Evelyn Waugh or Pat Barker. Any other serious but very readable suggestions?

Badders123 · 29/04/2017 20:25

Evelyn Waugh would be a good choice