A History of Reading | 
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 254 #bookstoread #tbrpile #bookstagram
"...one doesn't simply read Crime and Punishment or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. One reads a certain edition, a specific copy, recognizable by the roughness or smoothness of its paper, by its scent, by a slight tear on page 72 and a coffee ring on the right-hand corner of the back cover."
"I know that on a page somewhere on my shelves...is the question I'm struggling with today, put into words long ago, perhaps, by someone who could not have known of my existence"
My newest acquisition. I adore Manguel‘s prose. #albertomanguel
Thanks for this #LitsyLove19 giveaway, @LazyDays and the great question! It's been fun reading the responses.
I was lucky to have parents who read to me, and always found time for trips to the library & bookstores. Reading was my door to different worlds. It became my portal to entertainment, enlightenment, and escape. My tastes have changed over the years, but I still turn to books for these things. 📚❤
I'm so enjoying my current Litsy Reading Challenge that I've made one of my own. This one is intended to extend my reading in all ways uncomfortable. While I thought I read widely, I have since dicovered that I actually don't!
#litsy #litsyreadingchallenge #readwidely #readwildly #reading #books
https://thebookkeepersite.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/reading/
pickSadly a lot of my books aren't aging well due to becoming damp once upon a time then being on a bookcase in direct sunlight. This one is over 20 years old & showing it. Yellowing edges and a slight musty odour 🤤
Excellent book though. Highly recommended and due a reread!
What every book hoarder needs: a caravan of camels trained to walk in alphabetical order. 🐪🐪🐪
#BeYourself #JuneTunz Two of my biggest passions in life are history and reading. This book combines both.
#day3 of #riotgram #riotgrams is How I Read. The right answer would be "fast" because I don't have a lot of time.
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I read on three devices: my cheapo tablet for Kindle books, my beloved Kobo for almost everything else, and my phone (taking the pic) for fanfiction. I do read physical books on my occasion, but I use a book stand.
In today's reading class we had some monkish reading experiences, with readings from the Manguel. Did you know that silent reading wasn't really a thing until the 10th century?
#aprilbookshowers day 24: #shelfie
One of our projects last year was setting up our library! This loft area was first used as a TV room, a nursery for my second kid, a playroom but now with this comfy chair and a sofa on the other end, it is our very own library! Every evening after bathtime the kids head here for storytime. (They have a small shelf of books along the corridor as well as some squares here)
I'm enjoying my assigned reading! I am not, however, enjoying NJ's recent 80°F temps. I want cozy autumn reading!
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book- that string of confused, alien ciphers- shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
It's only roughly two more months till the Gilmore Girls are back! I can hardly wait. Who else was in love with this show? I was always like 'I want to know someone like Rory. She would so get me.' 😉 And...tataaaa... here we all are on Litsy. 😁
