Thursday, July 12, 2007
Your Turn Thursday
I once read a copy of Orwell’s 1984 that had no cover and was so old that every time I would turn a page, it would come off in my hand. I ended up reading each page front and back, pulling it off and dropping it in the garbage can to my side (forgive me; this was before widespread paper recycling). I felt like I was truly consuming the book. Do you have a funny, interesting, or unusual reading experience to share?
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My husband, Chris, sat through most of Easter Mass at the Newman with a Chekov novel tucked in the book of readings. I didn't notice until the homily. He kept reading even when we stood...
He has also been know for reading in the shower, and the books get all crinkly.
I used to read and reread the same "Little Archie" comic, even though a bunch of pages were gone. He and Jughead go to another planet, and there were monster gorillas. I loved it!
Chekhov...sheesh
When I was 9, I read a book called The Little White Horse. No one I knew had ever heard of it, and it wasn't in our local library. I secretly thought I had the only copy in the whole world, and it was written just for me.
Who did write it? Do you now own a copy?
I met my husband while reading Lolita at the Hopkins Pool. He sat down next to me and had such a snazzy line, "You know, you're going to get funny tan lines if you keep reading like that." We joked for many years about that great pick-up line; we even named our pet bird Lolita.
OK, I see I'm going to have to comment so Christine can post again.
When I was in early elementary school I found and read a book called "Pilot Down, Presumed Dead" that had an ending that, at the time and for the first time, really rocked me. I remember going to my Mom, bawling my eyes out, and asking "How can this book affect me so much?" That was a lesson on the power of books which I have never forgotten. I swear, if I'd of known, I would have put it in the freezer.
"I swear, if I'd of known"
Don, not to be all Grammar Patrol, but I'm pretty sure it's "If I'd HAVE known" ;)
*runs*
Thank you all for your comments. Been a busy, but lovely long weekend. I'll be reading and writing again very soon.
Hey Martha, don't sweat the typos. They our totaly aloud.
And I send out a welcome to my student writer friends. It was great to see you young women this weekend. Please join us in our book conversations here any time. (Erin, you may send to my email and I will post here.)
Hey Martha, know that look you sometimes get? Well, you're gettin' it now.
Besides, it wasn't a typo, it was colloquial.
Sorry Christine :) You know I love to poke the bear. (And yes, Don, I feel the Death Stare. Funny, I wonder if you can feel what I'm doing to you...?)
On another note (since I haven't seen you), Joyce Carol Oates is Dead!!! (The book I was reading and, um, figuratively speaking...)
Finally onto Sin in the Second City, which is moving along at a rapid clip. I love nonfiction books that I would describe as "nonfiction for fiction readers" (i.e. not dry and full of quotes). Plus, it's about an old-timey whorehouse with characters named Minna and Ada Everleigh!! Come on, how cute is that? :)
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