Unsurprisingly, I didn’t quite manage a book this week, so instead I thought I’d share a lovely quote Garrison Keillor I found:
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
I love presents, and I love books so I can happily agree this one 🙂 I do feel that I’m receiving a gift the first time I open a crisp new book, or when I first see the cover page of a new purchase.
When I was younger, I used to drive out to a big shopping centre every so often to meet a friend; I’d always arrive about half an hour earlier than her, go into a bookshop and buy something that grabbed my attention, then get a coffee and read. That was 30 minutes of bliss, and I miss having the time to do it.
Maybe I should take that up again – now that really would be a gift to myself!
Happy reading,
EJ
🙂
Becoming a writer 
Had to chuckle at this one. I miss my books too, though right now I’m still finding some enjoyment in the boring, dry texts I am forced to plow through. At least the current selection for school is not quite so Sahara dry as they used to be. (When did text books realize that including a little humor now and again actually encouraged the books to be read?)
I remember when I did my degree that the textbooks for the core courses were always harder to get through than the courses I specifically chose, and this has been true of all my courses since. There must be some part of me that is rebelling at being forced to read certain things!