My all time favourite poem:
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from teh no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
ee cummings
I love reading. I especially love somewhat unique writing. ee cummings, Tom Robins, Fynn. Something which has that particular something that sparkles as I read. That draws me into a different world and delights me. I don't read anything and everything, I can be quite particular with my books, with what words I choose to fill my space with. And if they don't spark off an interest within a couple of pages, no matter how often I try to reread it, I cannot.
I don't read newspapers, (unless I am seriously bored or I am browsing the advertising/ entertainment section), I don't usually read crime novels, but I have been known to have read a Micheal Connelly or two and I don't read the Cosmo mag- I find it superficial and rather sameish.
Where did this love of reading come from, I have no idea, maybe my parents were like I am and books were a part of our lives, as far back as I can remember they have been, I love the escapism of reading, and I always find the more stressed I am, the more I read (I currently have 3 books on the go). I have been known to stay up waaay too late reading when I should be sleeping.
This love of reading is being passed down to my daughter who also has a rather ecclectic taste of books so far. Currently one of her favourites is The Ravenous Monster. I love that she can read 'all by her very own self' by having memorised her favourite stories and can happily sit ensconced in the pictures. I also love that a whole world can be opened up to her just by opening a book...
Yes, it does come across as though I am rather obsessed by reading, and I am OK with that;-)
My bedside table
7 comments:
As a fellow obsessed I totally know what you mean
Love reading as well! It has opened upbthe workd to me!
I love reading as well and always have. My parents used to joke that the house could burn down around me and I would not know about it if I had my nose in a book.
I think it was passed down to all of us mainly by dad - do you remember how he had bookcases FULL of books?
We are also a nose in the book family - many hours will pass when we are all just lost in our books. And the fact that Polly can actually read on her own now is a big bonus too!
And darling Robyn, at long last I find your blog, but dont seem to find the button where I sign up as a follower?!?!?!
Kind regards
Tiffany
I too get lost in my books just love love love to read - just don't always find the time!
Love it when littlies "read" there books and make up their own stories.....
I also love reading and get way to little time for it. As a young girl I worked in the Walmer library so that I can lay my hands on new books first. We were six children and I think it was a cheap and easy way to escape into another world. My DH doesn't read (only the Bible) and neither does my sons. My daughter is the only one that share my love for reading,
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