Comments on: Thank Goodness for Books http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/ Group author website offers new books, excerpts, biographies, and appearance schedules. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gwen Lucas http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5561 Gwen Lucas Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:07:07 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/#comment-5561 This is the way I described books on my blog... Paper Crack No, it’s not like butt cleavage. It’s an addiction. My addiction. And I’ve yet to discover a Twelve Step program for it. But I can offer the line here…"Hi, my name is Gwen and I’m a bookaholic.” Truth? I would fall off the wagon faster than you can say New York Times Bestseller List. An estimate of how many books I’ve read over my lifetime or the amount of money I’ve spent on those books would only frighten us all, so I won’t even attempt. But I often try to persuade my husband that my addiction is preferable to a drug habit. Don’t know that he’s convinced. Why books are better than crack… Books are cheaper by volume. Books aren’t consumable products. The addict can use them time and time again without having to return to her supplier, but the supplier knows she's hooked. Continued use of books isn’t harmful to the body. Unless, of course, the reader refuses to get up from the chair and consumes chips and chocolate all day. A person won’t normally cop jail time for reading a book. Both can take a person on trips, but with books, she eventually comes back. A person seldom has to rush to the emergency room to have a book pumped out of her stomach. This is the way I described books on my blog…

Paper Crack

No, it’s not like butt cleavage. It’s an addiction. My addiction. And I’ve yet to discover a Twelve Step program for it. But I can offer the line here…”Hi, my name is Gwen and I’m a bookaholic.”

Truth? I would fall off the wagon faster than you can say New York Times Bestseller List.

An estimate of how many books I’ve read over my lifetime or the amount of money I’ve spent on those books would only frighten us all, so I won’t even attempt. But I often try to persuade my husband that my addiction is preferable to a drug habit. Don’t know that he’s convinced.

Why books are better than crack…

Books are cheaper by volume.

Books aren’t consumable products. The addict can use them time and time again without having to return to her supplier, but the supplier knows she’s hooked.

Continued use of books isn’t harmful to the body. Unless, of course, the reader refuses to get up from the chair and consumes chips and chocolate all day.

A person won’t normally cop jail time for reading a book.

Both can take a person on trips, but with books, she eventually comes back.

A person seldom has to rush to the emergency room to have a book pumped out of her stomach.

]]> By: Kate Duffy http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5534 Kate Duffy Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:34:07 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/#comment-5534 I'm thinking we should assemble the Uber Readers Manifesto. Yeah, like I don't have enough to do. Yeah, like all of us don't have enough to do. Kate I’m thinking we should assemble the Uber Readers Manifesto.

Yeah, like I don’t have enough to do.

Yeah, like all of us don’t have enough to do.

Kate

]]> By: JoAnn Ross http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5511 JoAnn Ross Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:08:21 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/#comment-5511 Oh, Angie, that is just too, too funny!! Clever kid you've got there! :lol: Oh, Angie, that is just too, too funny!! Clever kid you’ve got there! :lol:

]]> By: Angie Fox http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5508 Angie Fox Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:51:37 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/#comment-5508 We raise a whole new generation of uber book lovers. My four-year-old daughter likes to walk around with my books and pretend she's reading. If my husband asks her to come over to him, or pick up the princess tea set strewn across the living room, she'll tell him, "Let me just finish this chapter." We raise a whole new generation of uber book lovers. My four-year-old daughter likes to walk around with my books and pretend she’s reading. If my husband asks her to come over to him, or pick up the princess tea set strewn across the living room, she’ll tell him, “Let me just finish this chapter.”

]]> By: Katie B. http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5506 Katie B. Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:20:36 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/#comment-5506 I just found this blog today, and I'm very glad I did. Just about everything listed applies to me. I'll definitely be coming back!! Happy Easter everyone! :smile: I just found this blog today, and I’m very glad I did. Just about everything listed applies to me. I’ll definitely be coming back!!
Happy Easter everyone! :smile:

]]> By: Cynthia Eden http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5501 Cynthia Eden Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:16:01 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/#comment-5501 What else do they need to know? Books are friends. When life gets too hard or even just too...routine, books are always there. They pick me up, give me adventure, and they leave a smile on my face. :grin: What else do they need to know? Books are friends. When life gets too hard or even just too…routine, books are always there. They pick me up, give me adventure, and they leave a smile on my face. :grin:

]]> By: Kate Douglas http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5500 Kate Douglas Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:13:05 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/#comment-5500 My schedule doesn't allow me to read during the day, so I find myself staying up half the night to read because I know I'm too sleepy to write and I can "justify" my book time. There are books in both bathrooms, beside every comfortable chair and lining all four walls of my office, and if I don't get to read for at least a couple hours every day, I'm totally unfit company. My doctor made me give up chocolate, caffeine and wine for some health issues--not a problem. Take away my books and you'd better find cover fast. My schedule doesn’t allow me to read during the day, so I find myself staying up half the night to read because I know I’m too sleepy to write and I can “justify” my book time. There are books in both bathrooms, beside every comfortable chair and lining all four walls of my office, and if I don’t get to read for at least a couple hours every day, I’m totally unfit company. My doctor made me give up chocolate, caffeine and wine for some health issues–not a problem. Take away my books and you’d better find cover fast.

]]> By: Fedora http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5499 Fedora Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:53:24 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/#comment-5499 Kate, what a terrific post today--amen to all of your points and those other commenters added. And another terrific thing about the Internet is that I can easily connect with other readers who feel this way--I love books and love to read and love chatting with authors and other book-lovers. People who understand why I only got four hours of sleep last night because I couldn't put that book down until I got to the end and then I was a bit wistful that there wasn't more but excited that the author's got a new release coming out in just a few weeks--must pre-order on Amazon... :smile: Kate, what a terrific post today–amen to all of your points and those other commenters added. And another terrific thing about the Internet is that I can easily connect with other readers who feel this way–I love books and love to read and love chatting with authors and other book-lovers. People who understand why I only got four hours of sleep last night because I couldn’t put that book down until I got to the end and then I was a bit wistful that there wasn’t more but excited that the author’s got a new release coming out in just a few weeks–must pre-order on Amazon… :smile:

]]> By: JoAnn Ross http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5498 JoAnn Ross Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:57:26 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/#comment-5498 Wait! They're not real people we know personally???? :shock: Wait! They’re not real people we know personally???? :shock:

]]> By: JoAnn Ross http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5497 JoAnn Ross Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:55:34 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2008/03/20/thank-goodness-for-books/#comment-5497 Rhonda, you're right about the importance of the book store being close, which is how I tend to end up getting so many from the supermarket down the street. Here, the B&N, Borders, and Books-A-Million, are all within a couple blocks of each other, so if one doesn't have the book I'm looking for, it's not a big trip to go to another. And all three have coffee bars, which has, at least for my sweetie, become part of the treat of book shopping. I've actually not bought purses I loved, because they didn't have that all important extra room for a book. (Hmmm. I wonder if that's why Queen Elizabeth never lets go of hers?) Rhonda, you’re right about the importance of the book store being close, which is how I tend to end up getting so many from the supermarket down the street. Here, the B&N, Borders, and Books-A-Million, are all within a couple blocks of each other, so if one doesn’t have the book I’m looking for, it’s not a big trip to go to another. And all three have coffee bars, which has, at least for my sweetie, become part of the treat of book shopping.

I’ve actually not bought purses I loved, because they didn’t have that all important extra room for a book. (Hmmm. I wonder if that’s why Queen Elizabeth never lets go of hers?)

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