Dr Grumble has been musing about stuff. He mentioned books.
Ah, Books.
Jobbing Doctor has a weakness for books. It isn't just reading them, it is also owning them. There is something rather sensual about holding a book and almost caressing it as I read.
I love the world you can be transported to when you read a book. The cerebral middle class world of Iris Murdoch, the magical realism of Louis de Berniere's early novels, the amazing imagination of JK Rowling and Phillip Pulman.
One of the series of books I have read is Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. I have read them all once, and will embark on the whole series a second time at some point. The tenth Novel is entitled 'Books do furnish a room' after a character (whom Stringham calls 'books') who keeps saying 'Books do furnish a room'.
He's right.
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6 comments:
Have to agree with you on this JD, got my first library ticket at age 4. Have not had a book out of my hand since. Still have books I bought as a teenager in old money. Read 'The Triumph of the Political Class' at your recommendation and am now starting 'The Rotten State of Britain' and 'The Rise of Political Lying'. Borders and Waterstones are my favourite shops.
Great minds think alike, or more aptly on my behalf, fools seldom differ as Dr G's post inspired my first ever blog entry. Some of my books are almost as precious to me as my kids, so you can imagine my horror when someone I'd lent a favourite to, gave it (or rather sold it) to the second-hand bookshop rather than return it.
I love books too. I am a voracious reader; at least I am when the depression isn't too bad so that I can actually concentrate on what I am reading and actually follow the flow. There is nothing like lying in bed with a good book and reading for half an hour before going to sleep (although in my case it is more often a case of falling asleep with the book in my hand and my glasses still perched on my nose.
Ahh books, the true love of my life (don't tell my husband - although I think he has suspicions.
I've got a Sony Reader so I can read pretty much constantly now. Feels nice to read but it doesn't smell the same..Still feel the need to own nice paper copies of my favorites and now they don't get messed up in my bag.
I love to read. I have been reading since I was three years old. I would be fine anywhere as long as there are books.
Yes, I am another book fiend, finding them easy to acquire but extremely difficult to part with..! I think the habit is hereditary, as both my parents are bookish in different ways - though whether it is genetics or upbringing I can't tell. Anyway, it is useful as now I can swap books with both of them.
I got particularly keen on second hand bookshops when I was doing a lot of travelling and working outside the UK, tyically for weeks to months at a time. Second hand books were nice and cheap, and I could post them back to myself by surface mail at the end of each stint. Mrs Dr Aust and I now haunt
the local charity shops for our book fix with the children in tow.
I've never read the Jobbing Doctor's favourite Anthony Powell, but my father is a fan and still has 50s hardback editions of all the Dance to the Music of Time series. I shall have to try and read them some time.
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