I've found a way to spend $ on books withouth hurting my wallet. I've found
www.half.com (actually I've bought my textbooks here when I was in collge). I now go to Goodwill and our local library to buy books.
I don't read books because they are in the bestseller's list this year. I read whatever catches my attention. It does take a little patience though because I try to read tye synopsis. I've bought not-so-good ones for $5.00 and really good ones for $1.00.
I prefer hardcovers over mass marketcovers.
I found a steal a few weeks ago- a hard cover for Memoirs of A Geisha for $1.00 at a our local library. I've seen the movie , and although I've enjoyed it, I knew the book is better.
You see, I read myself to sleep. When I struggle to keep my eyes open and when I struggle to make sense of the symbols I see on a page, that's when I dog ear a page and sleep. I've been reading Geisha for almost two weeks now. It's so easy to get wrapped up in Chiyo/Sayuri's world. The knowledge and research on the book is very vast. There is an economic sense to this Japanese tradition. Until I've read this book, I thought of Geisha's as highly paid prostites - sorry. Anyway, I haven't finished it yet but , I'm really enjoying it.
I have some more books lined up. Hopefully they will not disappoint.
Call me odd but I love the smell of books. I often find myself just holding the pages with my thumb and letting the pages "drop" rapidly while I hold it against my nose just to smell the paper and ink. I do it until I can almost taste it at the back of my throat :D
So it might take a while for me to get used to kindle. I hope that Kindle is another medium but not to replace books. Gosh I hope not.
I had a recurring dream when I was in 5th and 6th grade. I kept searching for a library so that I can read books :D. I just moved from a larger school to a smaller school. This smaller school of course , albeit, privately-owned, did not have the same resources as my older bigger school.
In my older, bigger school, instead of going straight home , I would go to the library and read. This school has a collection of Nancy Drew - the older edition.
But further back than that , I remember finding this old Nancy Drew book at one of the benches of my older and larger school. It was the book called "Message In The Hollow Oak.". I think I was 8. Haven't really read books except for the ones we have in school. I was facinated by illustration of a skull and a young girl. I don't have an expanded vocabulary (English being my second language) although I understood the word message and hollow. The word "oak" was new to me , I didn't know it was some type of wood back then hehehe.
So I tried to read it and my mother saw me reading it, so she bought me a dictionary and showed me how to use it. And then the rest is ...well. I'm hooked on reading. The only time I couldn't really read the way I do now was when I have academic commitments and duties to fulfill during college...exams...endless lessons...dull classroom walls. I honestly couldn't wait to get out of school...
So anywa back in my elementary school days, that was what I did, I go to the library and read some books then go home.
When I moved to the smaller school, they didn't have a library as great as my first school. That was when the dreams came. I would dream that I was walking and searching for the library and always it would end with either my waking up before I could see the library OR going to the place where I thought there was a library only to find nothing.
I never got over not having a good library actually :D, even when I went to high school (a different school), it wasn't the same.
The dreams has stopped and I again have rekindled my love affair with reading.
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