I love books. I have a weakness for books. I have a shelf of books (now in storage) that I love to look at and recall the tales between the covers. In South Africa I had hundreds of books…some as old as 60+. Sadly when I moved my possessions over from SA to UK I had to leave a great many behind due to lack of space in my current home and plans for the future….100’s of books won’t fit into a campervan 😉
I read voraciously as a child, seldom without a book in my hand, I read at every opportunity from morning till night and then some. At school my teachers were hard put to keep up with me….I’d get a class book and bring it back within a few days having read it right through. My teachers would get suspicious and ask me questions…..they soon learned to not bother but just kept me topped up.
Even today, I love nothing more than a quiet corner and a good book. As for organising them…..sometime, maybe, I may. But mostly they just live happily wherever they land. 😉 Most recently a very lovely and dear friend of mine sent me a book on the eve of my visit to Florence, Italy. – ‘A Florence Diary’ by Diane Athill.
One of the many fun things about coming ‘home’ after being away for 3 weeks is opening my mail. To my delight one of the envelopes contained this wonderful book ‘A Florence Diary’ from my lovely friend Lucy
What a delight. I started reading immediately, but unfortunately, once I actually arrived in Florence I was out from early morning till late a night, returning to the apartment only to brush my teeth, change into pyjamas and fall into bed till the morning; at which time I would repeat it all over again LOL So no time to continue reading in Florence I’m afraid.
But I have brought it with me to Ireland and with a few days of mucky weather in store I plan to read it…..Thanks Lucy my sweet, I shall treasure this little book and add it to my collection in the campervan 🙂
Nice post, Cindy–I have a lot of favorites too! Hope you have room on your shelf for my latest book I Too!
Hey Thomas 🙂 Lovely to hear from you. Yes, books. My weakness and joy. One of my earliest favourites was Anne of Great Gables and when my daughter was a little girl ‘ The Faraway Tree’ was a firm bedtime reading favourite…except I always fell asleep while reading to her LOL
What is your latest book about? do you have the link for me so I can have a look? Bravo btw, it’s tough writing a book. I’ve got two published and it was hard work.
Hi Cindy–Thanks! I think you would like the book based on some of your previous posts. its about inequality and ideology that are separating people today. It is called I Too and the idea is that the reader will think “I Too can make the world a better place.”
The cheapest way for you to get the book is probably from The Book Depository at https://www.bookdepository.com/I-Too-T-E-Stazyk/9781535581233?ref=grid-view&qid=1494737150943&sr=1-2
Or if you like reading e books you can get it from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/I-Too-T-E-Stazyk/dp/1535581239/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494737219&sr=8-1&keywords=stazyk
Let me know what you think! Cheers,
Tom
thanks ever so much for the links Thomas. I’ll have a look and see which is the best way for me to obtain the book. I like the theme…yes because we all need to take responsibility for making the world a better place.