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I'm searching for a book. My favorite book is Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. When the A&E movie first came out my husband ordered the movie and companion book for me. I have, however, lost the book that goes with the movie. I'm incredibly bummed and have been unable to locate a copy of this particular printing of the book. I've seen people advertise their book using the picture of this edition, but, disappointingly, the book never turns out to be the A&E companion book. Arrrrggg!
I have a reading addiction. I love to read. And I have a reading disability. It's called Cantputitdown syndrome. It is nothing for me to stay up all night reading a book because I can't put it down. Yep, reading makes me sleepy alright. Sleepy the next day from staying up too late reading.
Books come to life for me. Often times I can't remember if I saw a movie of something or if I just read the book. I see books in my head so vividly that later I can't distinguish between whether I've just read about it or if I actually saw it. Does that make sense? In some ways it's kinda nice. I've seen the first six Harry Potter movies though Hollywood has only produced 4 of them. My Where The Red Fern Grows is way better than the tv edition. Oddly, it's not restricted to fiction either. I often don't know if the information I'm recalling came from Dateline and 60 minutes or Reader's Digest. The drawback is when I'm searching and searching and searching for a movie that I want to watch again which I will never find because the film only played in my head. Does this happen to anyone else?
I have a reading addiction. I love to read. And I have a reading disability. It's called Cantputitdown syndrome. It is nothing for me to stay up all night reading a book because I can't put it down. Yep, reading makes me sleepy alright. Sleepy the next day from staying up too late reading.
Books come to life for me. Often times I can't remember if I saw a movie of something or if I just read the book. I see books in my head so vividly that later I can't distinguish between whether I've just read about it or if I actually saw it. Does that make sense? In some ways it's kinda nice. I've seen the first six Harry Potter movies though Hollywood has only produced 4 of them. My Where The Red Fern Grows is way better than the tv edition. Oddly, it's not restricted to fiction either. I often don't know if the information I'm recalling came from Dateline and 60 minutes or Reader's Digest. The drawback is when I'm searching and searching and searching for a movie that I want to watch again which I will never find because the film only played in my head. Does this happen to anyone else?
posted by SonSon at 6:39 AM
8 Comments:
The book I've been recomending to everyone is How to read literature like a professor by Thomas Foster. I know that sounds like very dry reading, but it's actually very entertaining, and I enjoy books even more after having read this.
I love to read as well, but my reading pics are quite unusual and are usually not fiction.
I'm sure you are not surprised to hear that I do this all the time!! There is a movie version of one of my all-time favorite books (The Lords of Discipline) that I refuse to watch because I just know it couldn't stack up to my own vision of it. I imagine the characters in my own precise way and don't want to see someone else's messed up version of MY movie. :) Unfort, I can't really do it with anything besides novels... such a strategy might have helped in conquering some beastly bio texts back in the day. :)
Books are great! There are so many out there yet to read. here's hoping we get the time to read them all.
Persuasion is my favorite Jane Austen book.
As far as others go... here is a random list of my faves:
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
The No. Ladies Detective Agency series, by Alexander McCall Smith
The Secret Life of Bee, by Sue Monk Kidd
Just to get you started...
I love to read.. and just finished "My Sisters Keeper" by Jodi Picoult.. it was pretty good. Alot of the time, the book is better than the movie.
Katherine, and The Green Darkness by Anya Seton. (hard to find though- she's been out of print for years; it does seem she is being printed again. I just bought The Winthrop Woman, new- haven't read it yet but hear it is one of her best.) Also Shantaram- loved the author's pick of words and imagery- also an interesting story about how and where it was written.
P.S. I miss your writing and also hope you are okay.
You haven't written in a while--three months. I hope you are all right. Maybe you have started reading Somerset Maugham's, "Of Human Bondage."
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