I read in every position and in every room. I read in bed–although not long and I am careful what I read: I don’t want nightmares if I can help it. I keep books and literary magazines in the bathroom. In fact, my wife bought and put together a small cabinet she spent hours researching just to keep my reading material neatly in the bathroom near the toilet. Of course, the reading I do there is in bursts. Most of the reading I do is in bursts. It was amazing I actually made it through Keith Richard’s autobiography–all 540 pages of it. It is really rare for me to read a novel. My favorite room has a spot right next the comfortable though ragged Lazy Boy chair where I keep my favorite devotional, “My Utmost For His Highest”, by Oswald Chambers. Most of my favorite books are in that room so I know where to find them when I am looking for a particular passage. I love to read and I have never had so many books in my house. I married a “book” person.
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There is always another book around the corner. Sometimes I don’t know where they come from although I always remember who I “borrowed” a book from. There is no lack of interesting books although you can become a dilettante and only sample a book here or there and only get a narrow picture of what the author wanted to convey. There are some books, though, that are meant to be read that way. Open up the book anywhere and start reading. Novels obviously have to be read from cover to cover although I have no compunction to stop reading it if it does not keep my attention. I enjoy a good story and am partial to animal’s stories: authors who describe their special relationships to animals. My office has my favorite books and special books that are marked up that I would never lend to anyone. They are like “old friends” to me and I want them at my disposal if I need to refer to them. I can not see how much an I Pad can possibly replace my library and there is nothing like leafing through a book and then another. I like touching a book and turning pages and opening it anywhere. There is always an interesting book around the corner.
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Clothes are just like books. If you have too many, you can’t find your favorite ones too easily for they are buried. For example, I would rather have an hundred favorite books than another additional nine hundred that hide the other hundred. In fact I did that with my office: it has my favorite books in it. Just a thought.
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