Are you a bookworm?

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Catholic Heart said:
I actually panic when my “stash” of books gets low. We are lucky to have a good Half Price Boostore nearby, and I go there often. Also…A local flea market has a great bookstore…The owner has been there over fifteen-sixteen years, and has a great selection.
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Another source is auctions. They are frequently sold in box lots, usually for next to nothing.
Pickout the ones you want. Donate the others, or have a yard sale of your own. :tiphat:
 
thrift stores are a good source, usually you can get books for 25 cents or so.
 
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jjwilkman:
thrift stores are a good source, usually you can get books for 25 cents or so.
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This small town’s laundromat owner sells her romance books for a quarter each. Romance is trash so I want to give her a Christian book or two to sell so her patrons have something better to read.

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne
 
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Gracie2004:
I read four to five books a week normally. I had eye surgery in January, however, with complications, and have only been able to read one book since then, which is driving me absolutely mad 😃
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I just had eye surgery too! The hardest part of recovery was not being able to read! Mine was for a detached retina and although I can drive again reading is really difficult, I have very limited field of vision in my left eye and when I read for more than a short while the words travel all over the page or computer and my eyes get very sore!!! I will keep you in my prayers it is so frustrating. Even this message board takes me forever to type and look over before I submit.

I actually read the entire Chronicles of Narnia while on vacation, I fell in love with CS Lewis!

For our 1-yr anniversary, my DH gave me a collection of C.S Lewis books including “Mere Christianity” he also gave me Mike Aquilina’s “The father’s of the Church” and St. Augustine’s Confessions. The 1-year anniversary is the “paper anniversary.” He is so great that way. My husband and I read the bible readings for the day before going to bed at night. Therefore, the bible is the most consistent reading I do.

Normally, I read research articles and nursing textbooks, student’s papers and patient chart reviews so I have not had time for pleasurable reading in a while. So when I go on vacation I try to read some easy books.
 
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coralewisjr:
This small town’s laundromat owner sells her romance books for a quarter each. Romance is trash so I want to give her a Christian book or two to sell so her patrons have something better to read.

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne
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hmmm romance is’nt trash but it can be …just have to know which.
I read them once in a while…I also like lives of the saints and just finished one on Padre Pio.
 
I’ve heard it once stated that people who listen to tapes a lot, are tapeworms :rolleyes:
 
My grandma read with a magnifing glass after cataract surgery until she died.
My mom read till she died after a stroke and blindness in one eye.
My daughter read 5 (!) books on her 4 day honeymoon.
I read constantly. Who needs TV?
 
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catsrus:
My grandma read with a magnifing glass after cataract surgery until she died.
My mom read till she died after a stroke and blindness in one eye.
My daughter read 5 (!) books on her 4 day honeymoon.
I read constantly. Who needs TV?
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Amen, sister!!

For those with eyesight challenges, I recommend checking out books from the large print section of your local library (and borrowing or buying books on tape or CD).

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne
 
I would have to say I am not a bookworm. Ezekiel’s experience nonwithstanding, I do not think I would enjoy eating a book. I much prefer to read them 🙂
 
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savone:
Yes, I’ve read and would recommend this one.
Here, however, I must confess. I say that “books are my best friends.” Hypocrite! :bigyikes:

Several years ago, I sold about a 1,000 of them. I’ve been dis-heartened every since. Works by Dostoevsky, James, Dickens, and on and on. My friends! I sold them! :banghead:
Hopefully, I’ll never make that mistake again, until it it time to pass along my library. 🙂
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**You sold 1,000 books!!! Gulp! I wish I owned 1,000 books. Of course, then where would I put them? My apartment is tiny. When(if) I get a house, I want a separate room just for the library. **
 
Momofone said:
**You sold 1,000 books!!! Gulp! I wish I owned 1,000 books. Of course, then where would I put them? My apartment is tiny. When(if) I get a house, I want a separate room just for the library. **
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I want a library, too! I’ve read about huge houses with a room just for the library and that’s my dream. That’s a great reason to clean this one-bedroom apartment: make room for the books! 🙂

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne
 
My wife says I devour books. I love them. I couldn’t read until I was 9yrs old. But, once I learned I took off. I am usually reading up to 3 books at once and several others waiting to be read. When I was 13 I read “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” I love Roman history. I also read at that time, “The World Book Encyclopedia” 24 volume set.
I love reading;
History
Autobiography/biography
Fiction
Stories that put ordinary people in extrodinary situations.
James
 
Momofone said:
**You sold 1,000 books!!! Gulp! I wish I owned 1,000 books. Of course, then where would I put them? My apartment is tiny. When(if) I get a house, I want a separate room just for the library. **
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Yes, and all kidding aside for a moment, I miss them.
A number had marks and notations, One was by Bernard Malamud.
It takes place in Russia during the early 1900’s. A young boy is murdered and a Jew, a handyman (fixer) is accused. I was moved deeply by both the book and the movie. Malamud is brilliant!
Today, I have about 3,000 books, but I still miss some of my old “friends.”
 
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savone:
Yes, and all kidding aside for a moment, I miss them.
A number had marks and notations, One was by Bernard Malamud.
It takes place in Russia during the early 1900’s. A young boy is murdered and a Jew, a handyman (fixer) is accused. I was moved deeply by both the book and the movie. Malamud is brilliant!
Today, I have about 3,000 books, but I still miss some of my old “friends.”
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3,000 books???!!! Marry me, PLEASE.😃
 
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3,000 books???!!! Marry me, PLEASE.😃
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Few years back, the wife said, “It’s either the books or me!!!” :mad: Like I said, I have about 3,000 books.
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coralewisjr:
Amen, sister!!

For those with eyesight challenges, I recommend checking out books from the large print section of your local library (and borrowing or buying books on tape or CD).

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne
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oh yes…books on tape or cd are good also…for car travel. 👍
 
in 3 moves in the past ten years I have given away 175 cartons of books to libraries, historical societies, schools etc. since many were specialized topics. I have been readings since I was 4 - we had a bunch of children’s classics and I went through them all before I started 1st grade. I used to read 4-5 books a week, literature, mysteries, history mainly. I don’t know what happened but now I read only one book at a time, and it takes a week or more. I no longer spend my paycheck at B&N or fill up my back seat with library books. I have become more selective.besides lectio divina with daily lectionary, I work on one spiritual book at time, and it can take weeks. When I read something else I am extremely selective, usually classics or reliable writers, including children’s. most modern trade fiction and stuff in Best Short Stories is such garbage I have given up on it.

just finished Out of the Silent Planet trilogy by CS Lewis, and will begin Kirstin Lavrensdatter when next I get the urge to read.
 
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puzzleannie:
in 3 moves in the past ten years I have given away 175 cartons of books to libraries, historical societies, schools etc. since many were specialized topics. I have been readings since I was 4 - we had a bunch of children’s classics and I went through them all before I started 1st grade. I used to read 4-5 books a week, literature, mysteries, history mainly. I don’t know what happened but now I read only one book at a time, and it takes a week or more. I no longer spend my paycheck at B&N or fill up my back seat with library books. I have become more selective.besides lectio divina with daily lectionary, I work on one spiritual book at time, and it can take weeks. When I read something else I am extremely selective, usually classics or reliable writers, including children’s. most modern trade fiction and stuff in Best Short Stories is such garbage I have given up on it.

just finished Out of the Silent Planet trilogy by CS Lewis, and will begin Kirstin Lavrensdatter when next I get the urge to read.
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Wow, puzzleannie!! You are a true bookworm. I think that what’s keeping you from reading 4-5 books per week is the CAF addiction. I used to read while I ate (and other times) and now I read and post on CAF while I eat.

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne
 
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