"A well composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter any other way." --Caroline Gordon
"Books are the greatest device for transporting you into another person's mind. Movies excel that depicting action with a bit of talk, theater excels at depicting talk with a bit of action, and radio it all talk. But books can take you deeper into people's thought and feeling than any other media. Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity." --Christopher Paolini
I would have to ditto both of these quotes. I totally agree. I adore books.
I love the smell, the feel, the appearance. I love the smell of old books (like in the library) and the smell of new books (like in a bookstore). I love to see the brand new crisp pages filled with little, tiny letters. Books just waiting to be cracked open and read! Oh! And the old wrinkled, slightly yellow pages of books whose bindings are falling apart, books that have been read and re-read. =) It's so.. beautiful. I love those thick heavy hard bound books. Books that--That contain epic adventures! Books that hold secrets and legacies! I love paper backs. The kind that you can fit into a back pocket or a bag. The old go-to books. Not quite at foreboding... Full of more giggles and fancies.
Books are like friends. They can rescue you. When I've been sad or lonely, I was able to read a book and just for a while be transported someplace else. Someplace full of giggles and inside jokes. Oh! Speaking of being transported... =D You know you've found an amazing book if when in the middle of summer you can be sitting in your room on your bed reading about frost-bitten toes and icy winds, and when you step out into the sunshine and are shocked! The spell is broken... You know that it's 80 degrees and humid, surely not cold and windy! I just am so joyous when I find a book like that! I've been extremely lucky too, as I've found hundreds of such books. =)
Y'all know how someone write an amazing book? One that is either literary genius (Pride and Prejudice) or just has a cult like following (Twilight)? I love those kinda books, but ya know what? When some stupid person somewhere in Hollywood decides to make it into a movie--Ugh! I hate that! I'm never one who enjoys any sorta movie mad from a book. They never get it right, and that just drives me up the wall! I mean... Sometimes it's just not that difficult! My fam hates to watch movies that were first a book. *blush* So yeah... I sometimes like the movie, but that is rare. And anyways... (as I'm sure you might be able to tell from the above) I'm more of a book person anyways. =P
Actually, reading is one of the things that I am most thankful for some days. When I'm sitting curled up on my at midnight with my headlamp on reading some book... I want to run into my mummy's room and wake her up and thank her for teaching me to read! I'm so thankful for my mother. She taught me to read. It was my Mother Ellen that instilled in me this love of reading. As a little girl she'd ever be reading to me. =) Every Christmas and birthday since I was born I have been given books. =D One in particular...
James Herriot's Treasury for Children. My parents gave it to me on my very first Christmas, way back in 1992. In it my mother wrote:
"Dearest Mariah Gayle,
This is but the first of our many wonderful Christmases together. You have brought us so much love and joy. We hope that you enjoy this book but most of all we hope that you learn the love of reading.
Merry Christmas!!
Love,
your adoring parents
Mom and Dad
Even now that makes me well up. =) I did indeed fall in love with books, with reading. =D And it was all thanks to my parents. I thanks God everyday for my amazing parents. That ^ is just one of the things I'm thankful for in regards to my parents. =)
I love reading. I can't imagine not being able to. I cannot remember a time that I couldn't--wasn't reading. I pray that one day I too can teach my kids to read. Help them fall in love with reading, with books.
Oi. Now I think I'm just about finished raving about books and reading. =P I hope that at least some of y'all can relate to and understand what I mean.
Laters,
~Riah
I thought I posted a comment here, but it disappeared. This word verification thing is annoying.
ReplyDeleteAnyways. I love the part you mentioned about a book so good you can feel the temperature. Those are awesome! Books that you can't put down. Movies just kinda...have no feel to them. They tell you what to see. No such constraints with books.
But....I do still like war movies. I liked LotR being put to movie, for the hack and slash/decapitation scenes. How's that song put it? I'm still a guy? :D (and its even country, beat that!)