Bookaroo! - inspired by Slu
Day 2,756, 14:10
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by AoifeNiBhriain
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
–Marcel Proust
Hey everyone,
Since I was very young I have simply loved reading. I often traveled for a few hours in the car and some of my favourite memories are of the books I read while imprisoned in that metal box
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When I find a book I like, I get swept up into a whole other universe expressing the other character's feelings, memories, the pain or anger, confusion, sadness, happiness and I forget everything that is around me. Books are a link to another world in which we can become immersed and forget the trivial details of our lives. They can be an escape. A safe haven.
I don't read a particular genre. I like to keep and open mind and read new things... but I have not, nor will I read 50 shades of grey!
I would love to tell you all my favourite book but I'm sure eRepublik would not appreciate that. Even if they would, it would be like having to choose your favourite child! I couldn't do it!
I'm sure I can't be the only person who loves reading here on eRepublik so I was thinking about starting a book club. I've never been in one so I think it could be fun. If any of you are interested please leave a comment or send me a PM. If enough people message, we can get one going
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One thing I have never gotten into are eBooks. I suppose I'm just old fashioned but I love having the book in my hands. Nothing can beat it. I also want to have a big bookcase covering a wall in my house someday!
This is a tip for any guys who are reading this
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Having a favourite book will actually help you get girls
Reading in general will help you get girls
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It makes us think that you actually have feelings hahah
Yeah, I just wanted to express my love of reading to you all. Let me know if you're an avid reader like myself and we might be able to talk books someday
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Mise le meas,
AoifeNiBhriain
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mmm a book club! I'm in.
I actually set one up when I played Nationstates with limited success
I don't have feelings, but I do really love to read.
I like reading! I just (re-)finished Relic (by Preston & Child). I normally don't read horror (and never watch it! :3), but I can get into super-thrilling ones.
And you think that tip is only for guys? Disregarding that it isn't actually causation, your tip applies for girls trying to get guys as well.
I never said it was only for guys, just said it applied to guys 😉 hahaha
I can only read boring facts and history these days. I don't know what went wrong. In my youth i loved fiction/fantasy but now I'm just disinterested if it can't be proven to teach me something.
"What is to be done?" by Chernyshevsky is the last fiction I read. But it's so boring to most that you'd think it was a biography. It's about a woman who starts her own co-op sewing shop with other women who share the profits equally and start their own commune bank. The book more so focuses on her marrying a man who frees her from the man her mother wants her to marry, and eventually he fakes his death to allow her to be with his best friend, whom she actually falls in love with.
It's a deep book that inspired both Lenin and America's best known Anarchist, Emma Goldman who identified with the main character, Vera.
In the intro the writer insults the reader as being a typical dominant male and states that he's not even a good writer but we're too dumb to know and would praise the book unless he admitted to sucking beforehand. lol
It's an amazing book though. I recommend it.
Yeah, books are great
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I love reading, particularly sci-fi & fantasy, though I've got a bit out of it recently. Big news, though, is the release of Terry Pratchett's last ever Discworld book, The Shepherd's Crown, published on 27 August. I shall be getting that one and, probably, finishing it the same night.
he still have an unfinished manuscript they will probly get in a guest writer to complete it.
I'm not sure anyone has quite the same style and sense of humour as Pterry. Neil Gaiman, who he co-wrote Good Omens with, was a friend of his, but has a different style.
the wind in the willows ,hitchhikers guide to the universe all took on guest writers.
A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
Too good to be true!
I'm in
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Book club sounds good, but I am a slow reader. These days I mostly read history, but still like sci-fi and fantasy. I try to read one factual book followed by one sci-fi/fantasy/fiction. I often make the effort to read at least one of the Booker shortlisted books - they are usually short and well written 🙂
The last book I read was The Second World War by Anthony Beevor. I am currently reading (nearly finished) Stardust by Neil Gaiman.