nowhere_girl

It's a shame that people stop believing that.

Well maybe if more people actually put that idea into practise there wouldn't be so much negativity around. It doesn't hurt to think positively about your own life, other people, & the world. It may even make people more grateful for what they have as so much is taken for granted. I would never knock a book that had nothing but good intentions for making people happy. I do however think there is a lot of truth & sense in it. Who has negative thoughts & feels happy at the same time? Nobody. I do feel though that little emphasis should be placed on money. Those people who are just in it for monetary gain most probably don't deserve it anyway.

There's potential to learn from anything & everything even if it's not consciously. Learning isn't restricted to education. You can learn from crime novels & Mills & Boon. I don't necessarily mean learning some fact or scientific piece of knowledge, more an awareness & insight into different ways of life, different worlds & experiences. Reading should be about immersing yourself completely in these worlds, but such a lot of focus is put upon how quickly people can finish books & how many books they have read. To me that's far from the point.

Reading that quickly can't possibly produce any enjoyment. There's no awards for reading that many books. There's no way you could truly digest what you're reading, think about it, ponder things, or learn anything from reading at such a speed. And she can't do anything else with her time if she reads 12 books a week. I bet her family are so proud

I could read Shakespeare's 'Romeo & Juliet' & 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' all day long. I can't imagine anyone not loving reading these plays. Reading language like that is different from seeing it & hearing it being performed. It's luxury. & to whoever mentioned 'An Inspector Calls' - I remember studying that play at school & absolutely adored it.

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I think most writers are. I write & I think I do so because I'm quite socially awkward. Written words are such a lot easier than spoken ones in my opinion. I loved studying poetry too & I too both studied Carol Ann Duffy & went to a poetry reading day locally through school. I was, no surprise, the only person into it. I remember loving 'War Photographer' the most, although I was also fond of 'Before You Were Mine'.

I'm too interested in my surroundings to read anywhere like at a game, in the car, or even in the staff room at work. I read when I have nothing else to do, so I don't read as much as I like. I love reading in the garden, so I love the sunny weather. Mostly I read in bed - although reading doesn't make me fall asleep very easily so I can be there for hours.

I have fitted wardrobes so my books go in those - the part with shelves obviously. I go with genre & size. Although I tend to work from both left & right, so I have the two tallest on either end & slope down to meet in the middle. I try to operate on a 'one in one out' policy as well so I don't get over-run.

That's pretty much word-for-word exactly what I do. My permanent collection generally only consists of my Harry Potter's, my Jane Austen's, & classics like 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. I'll lend my books to anyone. Books are meant to be shared & enjoyed. Generally though only a couple of my friends read so they don't get borrowed a whole lot. But I know that they would do the same for me. I sell most of my other books on Amazon, or since I've joined up to this forum, swap books. I've only been here about a week & I've done a swap already. I'm completely the opposite to a hoarder - I'm a total minimalist & pretty obsessive when it comes to keeping things neat & tidy.

I'm very mixed in my opinions about this. Of course I think it's awful if someone deliberately vandalises a book by ripping out pages, scribbling over the writing, or writing unnecessary comments inside the book. But things like highlighting & light pencil annotations I really don't mind at all. Sometimes they can be quite useful. Once I read a book & a passage was written in Latin. Someone had actually translated the whole passage & it's English version was written in the margin in pencil. When I used to study poetry & fiction, we would have to analyse so much of the poems & books we were reading I would annotate & underline constantly. But I always did this in my own books & never in books that weren't mine. I don't mind seeing it though in books I borrow from the library within reason. It gives the books a sense of history about them.

He wrote Atonement as well that's now a film with Keira Knightley & James McAvoy. I read The Child in Time before the film Atonement came out. He is a brilliant writer. There's always a sense of mystery & a twist towards the end, so you come to expect it, but it's never ever what you think.

Writing, music & art. I'm teaching myself to play the guitar. I write prose pieces, articles, poetry, songs, anything.