The best books, I think, are the ones that make you want to put them down and write something yourself.
I've just started The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and in addition to having a quite delightful title, the whole book itself provides fodder for any book lover who has the time. (And let's face it...true book lovers always have the time, even when they don't.)
I am already quite taken with this particular book. And to give you a small taste, here are a few quotes. Hopefully after sampling, you'll want the whole Pie...
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
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That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive--all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
You see? How can you not fall in love with this book? With these words? With the structuring, the taste of the ideas, with the beauty of their organization? The way the love of literature is nestled amongst the pages, flowering with imagery that makes you...well, sit down and write, and use words like 'taste', 'nestled,' and 'flowering.'
I thought my first blog post, post-exams, would be about seminary. I thought it would be a summation of the year, a beginning exploration into what I've learned so far.
It is more appropriate, then, that it is rather about what I love. Which is seminary, yes. But it is also reading. Sweet, relaxing, fulfilling, joyful reading.
