is like a room without windows. "
Some books are just such good friends. Really good friends. The sort of friends you can’t remember a time you weren’t the very best of friends with. Some books are like that.
I can’t remember a time I wasn’t friends with “Anne” “Sara” and “Jo” (Anne of Green Gables, A Little Princess, and Little Women.) Why, those books were read to me before I could read myself! But actually, I can’t remember not being able to read. I remember first learning to read, the books that I first read, but I don’t remember when I simply couldn’t read.Some books have a way of taking you back to the day you first read them too. There are some books that I can pick up again after years and years have gone by and I will be reading and suddenly I feel like I’m twelve again, snuggling one of my new baby brothers while reading, and thinking I was so cool multitasking! Multitasking= holding baby and reading…at the same time! Wasn’t I just so so talented?
"Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome."
~William Ewart Gladstone
Swinging in the hammock one evening reading The Scarlet Pimpernel while the sun sank down in a glowing splash of colorful glory. Reading Mansfield Park with my feet propped up on the dashboard of the car while a Taylor Swift song played on the radio. Snuggled under my covers in my warm cozy bed reading those first words of Pride and Prejudice. Curled up in a rocking chair reading Rose in Bloom, while tears ran down my cheeks (I always have a soft spot in my heart for the boyish teasing character). Lying on the cement porch one hot sunny day reading The Magician’s Nephew. Yes, reading old friends certainly takes you back…and it is a lovely feeling!
Actually what brought this on was for a while my books weren’t in their proper home in my bedroom. I had to move them out while we were painting the walls. Oh, my room did feel so empty without my books! A few days ago I finally was able to take them back (There was a rather large stack gradually making their way into hiding under my bed during this time…I really don’t know how they got there! Really! I had nothing to do with it…well, maybe one or two…okay so more than a few, but I just couldn’t stand being parted from those!) But now they are back in their proper place. On my bookshelf in my room. That is their home. As I was fingering those worn covers of my favorite books, placing them back on the bookshelf I was realizing how much I loved each and every one of those books. How each brought back a part of me from years ago, besides being such beautiful stories just in themselves.
Yes, most "post worthy"! As is the pictures of my new bookshelf all shiny and beautiful in its corner! And notice the lovely book ends we found! I liked them just for themselves when I first found them and then I realized that the quotes were Shakespeare, cream on the strawberries! You just can’t get much better than that, can you? Best friends back in your room, a new bookshelf, and bookends with Shakespeare quotes! Best day ever!
"Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not
know how to read a book."
~Author Unknown
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
