General Chat

I get so much pleasure from reading. I'm able to lose myself in the stories and the plots. I'm an armchair traveller and I've been transported to many different countries through the many stories I've read.
Reading broadens the mind. Many a time I've read about a place in a story and I've googled it later on.
Pat
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Save our libraries.

I don't know how I would live without books.I just love reading.I probably get through a couple a week and am always on the lookout for a new one.I go to bed with my book (with OH snoring the other side of the bed) and I wake in the morning and the first thing I do is to start the next chapter.
I too feel as though I am 'there' lol
I thank Enid Blyton for my love of books.

I grew up in a house full of books and my home is the same. My adult children are avid readers and their children love books too. It helps to have a SIL who is a bookseller. He supplies us all with good books :-)

Sue

Jane, I have just started my grandson onto Enid Blyton - he loves them! I just hope I can keep him interested in paper books and not the nasty electronic variety.

I have read since I was very young, had a small library at the end of our road so I was there several times a week. I would go through the wastepaper my brother collected for pocket money and take out all the magazines and reading material even tho I was only about ten, would read women's mags etc as well as books.
Nowadays I cannot bear to be without something to read, at the moment reading a Bill Bryson one, A Walk in the Woods. It's really interesting and quite funny in places. Have another one ready for the off and a further book ready for my holiday in June, but will be stocking up on more as soon as I find any I like the look of at the charity shops, which is where I get most of my books. Poundland have lots too, got one that looks interesting from there for next week.

Lizx

Dermot, I hope libraries don't close. I remember not so long ago when a library was threatened with closure the public borrowed all the books!
I make good use of my library and I'm allowed to take 12 books out! The downside of this is that I can't carry 12 books in one go! I took eight books out at the last visit.
My aim is to read most of the novels in the library-except sci fi and short stories. I'm giving it my best shot :D

You know I love reading Pat, I read about three books a week, I love novels too.
I worry these electronic book readers will take over from real books.

I don't think they will take over but if it encourages people to read then that's the main thing. I think that a lot of people would always like the feel of a book in their hands. There's something about the smell of a book.

Sue

I was going to say Christine (as an owner of a Kindle) Surely if the children choose to read on the elctronic variety of books they are not 'nasty' but encouraging the love of reading. I read both, love actual books but it is so useful to be able to take any number of books on holiday without being loaded down by the weight.

I love reading to..Have just finished a book and have bought 5 more..

Jules x

Joined junior lbrary as soon as I was old enough, and was once banned for going back again in the afternoon to get another because i had read the book so quickly. I now read about 9 or 10 in three weeks, the time between the travelling library visits. Am great friends wit the driver, I help to keep him in work.

My mother read, I read and so do my children and their children and it pleases me a great deal that they all do love books.

I remember, as a child, reading under the blankets in bed with a torch and years later catching my own children doing the same thing. With todays technology my grandson was caught reading by the light of his mobile phone!

I like the feel of a real book but I also love my Kindle. Living abroad it is not always possible to get a book in English and the second hand ones are very expensive and of limited choice. With my Kindle I can choose what I want to read at a reasonable price. I still have real books as presents from my family......

Wendy x

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See post below lol
.....and nice kind visitors who always leave the books they bring with them when they come on holiday for a month at a time....No names mentioned!

Ahem!!! And from visitors!!

Try this one ladies have just finished it a lovely read.



The Girl on the Wall is a unique, beguiling and very personal social history of one British life over the past 70 years, told through a hand-sewn tapestry.

As the clock struck midnight on 31 December 1999, Jean Baggott vowed that from that point on her life would be devoted to the happiness of ‘the girl on the wall’ – a 1948 photograph taken of Jean when she was eleven.

Reflecting on her hopes and dreams 60 years on from that photo, Jean – a talented needlewoman – has stitched a remarkable tapestry looking back on her life and the changing world around her.

Inspired by a ceiling in Lincolnshire’s Burghley House and by the history degree on which she embarked in her late sixties, the tapestry tells the moving story of an ordinary young girl from the Black Country, growing up in extraordinary times.

The tapestry, which took sixteen months to complete, consists of 73 interlocking circles, giving a unique portrait of everyday life for the working people of the industrialised West Midlands. Each chapter of her book relates to one circle in the tapestry as Jean explores the memories the circle evokes. Jean’s vivid recollections of growing up in a house where the bath hung on a nail in the yard, and children listened to Dick Barton on the radio while their mothers made rag rugs, conjure up a fascinating world now all but forgotten. Some circles explore world events such as the first moon landings and the Cuban missile crisis; others are filled with memories of washdays, childhood illnesses, wartime rationing and games played in the fields and streets beyond Jean’s two-up, two-down terraced home.

Jean Baggott’s entertaining, conversational style and the exquisitely appealing beauty of her tapestry, here recreated in full colour, are underpinned by a breadth of knowledge that brings the events of the past seven decades richly to life in a unique and unforgettable way.

Ann,
I'll look out for that book. It's sounds a good read.

Patricia,

Your local library should be able to get you a copy, E-Bay also have it for sale new/second hand.

Annx

Yes, I love reading too. I can't imagine my life without books! I don't read so much since I caught the familty history bug and got a computer, though. I come from a family of readers. It's finding the time for it all that's the problem!

Wendy :D :D :D :D :D :D :D <3

One thing I try to do is go to the place that's been mentioned int he book I read. I've just read a book based in West Bay Dorset and that's not too far away from me.