So many books

[ashling]

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[love_katz]

1. Hmmm...

Mr. Zappa must've had me in mind, when he quipped that quote.

I LOVE to read. I often refer to myself as a book-a-holic.

I can tell when I am getting book withdrawals and need another fix...I start reading the backs of packages while I'm in the kitchen cooking...over, and over...

posted by luv_mykatz

[zanana1]

2. I also get literary withdrawal symptoms....

Thank God for my local library, my friends who read and those trade-a-book boxes at supermarkets and in doctor's waiting rooms. (Every once in a while, they have a few good books). Lately, I've been re-reading books I read in high school during the Stone Age. I find that, instead of pretending I understand them, I actually do! Some books are better the second time around.
One thing I can't do now that I've grown old is read two books at one time.
Do you have a local library you can go to in your time of need?

[DearHeart]

3. That's perfect! Also reminds me of one of my favorite "Twilight Zone" episodes

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[lunatica]

8. That was one of the most memorable episodes!

It's the first one I think of when I think of the Twilight Zone.

[DearHeart]

10. First one I think of is "The After Hours" where the mannequins leave the store for a month...

but this one is my second favorite!

[lunatica]

11. I love that one too!

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Frank Zapplegrove

[pipi_k]

5. Book lover from

way back.

Learning how to read opened up a whole world for me, even in 1st grade. My parents fed my love of reading by giving me books and giving me money to buy books through my grammar school.

I can't even conceive of how some people don't enjoy reading. For me, it's like food, or air.

Totally necessary for happiness, if not survival. If I couldn't read another book, ever, life wouldn't have much meaning.

I have such a fear of running out of reading material that I keep adding to my Kindle Fire, which currently has over 800 books.

OK, just checked my Amazon Kindle account...900 books.

[avebury]

6. So true!

My name is Avebury and I am an eBook and audiobook hoarder.

I just realized that I have 104 pages of items on Manage My Kindle (it includes my audible.com account). I think it comes to about 1,446 items. I have so much on Manage My Kindle that when I do Kindle downloads from th3 library I delete it off my account as soon as I return a book.

[nolabear]

7. Me too. I read multiples at once. Always have.

Right Brain wants something, Left Brain wants something else, somebody loves something and wants to talk about it, I'm researching something, it never ends.

[llmart]

9. I don't have enough years left.....

to read all the books I want to read. I gave up on keeping a list any longer. The list was growing faster than I could read!

I, too, can't imagine what life without reading would be like. I have always had this philosophy that if you can read you can learn anything you put your mind to.

[PufPuf23]

12. Books and Zappa are two of my over 40 year obsessions.