Courtney, this is a brilliant piece of writing! You have convinced me to start buying hard copy books again. Recently Caroline and I moved into senior housing. We are in a small one bedroom apartment . I had to give my poetry books to a poet friend because neither of us has space for books. (Except we did keep some cookbooks. After all, after reading, eating is a great pleasure.). So even if I start buying hard copy books again, I can’t keep them. But,... the senior building we are in does have several library areas where I can recycle them! So all is not lost. I can also give any books I have read to friends. I have a number who like to read. I am so glad I finally have been able to find out what #survivalbybook means. I don’t know how to tweet, although I do have a Twitter account. I also don’t know how to work Instagram except to look at what they give me which your posts mostly. So now I am a member of Survival by Book and looking forward (finally) to some good reads. ❤️ Ed
Oh my gosh the concept of upstairs and downstairs books - I even have car books !
Upstairs: The Mirror and the Light and Royal Faces : 900 years of British Monarchy; The Bright Silver Star (mystery set in Old Lyme) by David Handler: Healthy At 100 by John Robbins (reading the second time). Downstairs :The Miracle of Mindfulness (third time, for a book group), White Fragility ( because a friend asked me to talk with her about it), Standing at the Edge by Joan Halifax because I was so blown away by her dharma talks on the Lion's Roar five-day Retreat last month that I watched them three times. In the car: whatever I think I can read waiting outside to go into the grocery store or the doctor's office : a secondhand rather rare copy of A Dog and His Boy (recommended by a Guardian book critic and I had never heard of it) before I send it to my my six yr old grandson. Reading aloud to my beloved : Beyond the Coral Sea, travels in the old empires of the South Pacific by Michael Moran. Thank you all for letting me betray the clutteredness of my reading habits.
Courtney, this is a brilliant piece of writing! You have convinced me to start buying hard copy books again. Recently Caroline and I moved into senior housing. We are in a small one bedroom apartment . I had to give my poetry books to a poet friend because neither of us has space for books. (Except we did keep some cookbooks. After all, after reading, eating is a great pleasure.). So even if I start buying hard copy books again, I can’t keep them. But,... the senior building we are in does have several library areas where I can recycle them! So all is not lost. I can also give any books I have read to friends. I have a number who like to read. I am so glad I finally have been able to find out what #survivalbybook means. I don’t know how to tweet, although I do have a Twitter account. I also don’t know how to work Instagram except to look at what they give me which your posts mostly. So now I am a member of Survival by Book and looking forward (finally) to some good reads. ❤️ Ed
ah yes, all of this, I dumped my Kindle a couple of years ago and regret nothing.
Oh my gosh the concept of upstairs and downstairs books - I even have car books !
Upstairs: The Mirror and the Light and Royal Faces : 900 years of British Monarchy; The Bright Silver Star (mystery set in Old Lyme) by David Handler: Healthy At 100 by John Robbins (reading the second time). Downstairs :The Miracle of Mindfulness (third time, for a book group), White Fragility ( because a friend asked me to talk with her about it), Standing at the Edge by Joan Halifax because I was so blown away by her dharma talks on the Lion's Roar five-day Retreat last month that I watched them three times. In the car: whatever I think I can read waiting outside to go into the grocery store or the doctor's office : a secondhand rather rare copy of A Dog and His Boy (recommended by a Guardian book critic and I had never heard of it) before I send it to my my six yr old grandson. Reading aloud to my beloved : Beyond the Coral Sea, travels in the old empires of the South Pacific by Michael Moran. Thank you all for letting me betray the clutteredness of my reading habits.