Recent Book Activity

The first book I read in one sitting was The Turf-Cutter's Donkey' by Patricia Lynch. I was 8 years old, and lucky to have parents that thought it entirely reasonable for me to spend a day lying on my bed reading!

The first book to make me cry was Arthur Ransome's 'Swallows and Amazons'; I wept when I finished it, purely because it was finished - the adventure was ended.

Books have been an integral part of my life all my life. They take me to places I can never go, allow me to be people I can never be, let me experience things I can never experience. I have been imprisoned and enobled, climbed Everest and walked to the North Pole, killed, been killed and caught a killer, all through the power of the printed word.

I currently have only one small bookcase, so there are 26 large boxes of books in storage with another 3 ready to go, plus a boxful to be read before I decide whether to keep them or not... And stacked up the stairs are about 100 waiting to be released... And a tottering pile of 'read then release' beside my chair...

So if you see a book you'd like in my avl's or tbr's, let me know & it's yours!

Woohoo! Now I have a Birthday Buddy - Flossie771 - with whom I share a birthday (28th September).