Books (old)
Oct. 16th, 2002 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
triskellian[This is old. It was somewhere else, but I'm tidying things up. I know it's kind of cheating, and I'm not entirely sure whether to backdate or not, but wtf, this is my LJ, not yours. Bugger off and follow your purist notions in your own ;-) ]
I love books. It makes me angry to hear people say they don't like reading, or they'd like to read more, but they don't have the time. I love picking an assortment of books to lend to a friend, to try to find things they haven't encountered but will like, or new people writing about a subject that's close to their heart, or just a random choice, because I'll be interested to have their opinion on it. One of the biggest joys of books is sharing them with people you like.
I have a library in my house, and it's my favourite room. We were hoping for floor-to-ceiling shelves, until my Dad pointed out that the biggest wall wasn't strong enough to bear books. In the subsequent hunt for book cases, I was distraught to discover that most book cases aren't strong enough to bear books either. Well, apart from the very expensive ones. Do only very wealthy people read? And what do other people put on their cheap, weak book cases?
Even outside the library, all the spare space in the house is full of books. Things I'm reading, or have been reading, or will read soon, in the bedroom; non-fiction in the study; cookbooks in the living room (no space in the kitchen, much to my regret). We're in our twenties, and still acquiring more books. I dread to think where we'll have space to put luxuries like clothes and food when we're 'grown up'.
I love books. It makes me angry to hear people say they don't like reading, or they'd like to read more, but they don't have the time. I love picking an assortment of books to lend to a friend, to try to find things they haven't encountered but will like, or new people writing about a subject that's close to their heart, or just a random choice, because I'll be interested to have their opinion on it. One of the biggest joys of books is sharing them with people you like.
I have a library in my house, and it's my favourite room. We were hoping for floor-to-ceiling shelves, until my Dad pointed out that the biggest wall wasn't strong enough to bear books. In the subsequent hunt for book cases, I was distraught to discover that most book cases aren't strong enough to bear books either. Well, apart from the very expensive ones. Do only very wealthy people read? And what do other people put on their cheap, weak book cases?
Even outside the library, all the spare space in the house is full of books. Things I'm reading, or have been reading, or will read soon, in the bedroom; non-fiction in the study; cookbooks in the living room (no space in the kitchen, much to my regret). We're in our twenties, and still acquiring more books. I dread to think where we'll have space to put luxuries like clothes and food when we're 'grown up'.
Re: I'd like to read more, but I don't have the time ;)
Date: 2002-10-17 10:04 am (UTC)I'd like to offer to lend you some, but since I love all of them, and want to continue to own them, I won't ;-) Although, I do own two copies of two of them (Robber Bride and Cat's Eye, I think), so maybe you could have a belated birthday present, if our paths are likely to cross before you leave?