If you were to know me for only 5 minutes, you would know about my intense love affair with books. All books. Good books, bad books, fat books, skinny books. Old books, new books. Real books vs. e-books, makes no difference to me. I love them all. Maybe I just have an overall obsession with the written word. I love newspapers and magazines as well. I have overwhelming piles of both. I read, and re-read and then re-read all of them again. I've even been known to sit and read a dictionary and a thesaurus. Surely it's a sickness at this point. I can read a book in no time flat and have been known to read the same books over and over again. Some of them close to 20 times! For me, it's like watching the same movie 2 or 3 times. You pick up bits and pieces you missed the first (or second. or third!) time around. Happens the exact same way in a book!
I'm also becoming quite the book collector. I adore children's books. The old ones, from back when I was a child. Hands down my favorite book as a kid (and still today) is Corduroy. I have 3 copies so far. Every time I'm out and find an old, battered and worn copy, I snatch it up. I'm on the hunt to replace of my childhood books and still have a ways to go. I was an avid book lover even 30 years ago! There's one book out there that I'm looking for that I have no idea the name of or who the author is but I know what it looks like. Red hardcover. And it's about elephants. A circus maybe? I have no doubt that I'll find it eventually.
Even though my kids are barely teenagers and some even younger, I'm already working on a collection to give to my future grandchildren. Does that make me crazy? Probably so. But boy, do I have a ton of Dr. Seuss books!
I'm also becoming quite the book collector. I adore children's books. The old ones, from back when I was a child. Hands down my favorite book as a kid (and still today) is Corduroy. I have 3 copies so far. Every time I'm out and find an old, battered and worn copy, I snatch it up. I'm on the hunt to replace of my childhood books and still have a ways to go. I was an avid book lover even 30 years ago! There's one book out there that I'm looking for that I have no idea the name of or who the author is but I know what it looks like. Red hardcover. And it's about elephants. A circus maybe? I have no doubt that I'll find it eventually.
Even though my kids are barely teenagers and some even younger, I'm already working on a collection to give to my future grandchildren. Does that make me crazy? Probably so. But boy, do I have a ton of Dr. Seuss books!
