Hands up bookworms.

 I've just started reading Dracula by Bram Stoker (AGAIN!) Lol. I love that book. And of course no vampire collection would be complete without The Life and Times of Vlad the Impaler. *sigh* I should finish that one day..

I am definitely a bookworm. If I see a book I might like to read, I pick it up and read the first page. If I can read the first page with ease, I usually buy it.

Right now, I'm reading Under the Banner of Heaven which is about a group of religious extremists, I'm not going to name who, don't want to get anyones hackles up, that murdered a woman and her baby simply because they felt that God had told them to do so. Very intriguing but very heavy.  

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Chuffy, I've been reading those George RR Martin books. They are full on! I have to take a break between each one because he keeps killing off all my favourite characters. It's hard to like him for that! I'm clinging to Bran, though. You pull through, Bran! I'm up to A Feast for Crows, but haven't picked it up yet because I'm so worried it's going to be another gruesome end to characters I've grown very affectionate of.

 

Yowza!  Careful woman, you nearly gave a bit of the stroyline away!  Good thing I'm JUST past that bit when Theon Greyjoy comes back to Winterfell....   GRRM is very ruthless with characters, but in a way I am starting to like that about these books!

Eeeek! I forgot about that bit! I was trying to be careful not to give anything away, but I never believed Theon would do that and I completely forgot about that little moment of suspense. I really hate story spoilers . I read the first Liveship Traders book, then skipped to the Tawny Man trilogy. You can imagine my horror when I suddenly realised I was reading a lot of things I wasn't ready to know! I wanted to gouge my eyes out.

Nix's Old Kingdom is quite a complicated one, which I'm finding refreshing, but you gotta read Fallon, woman! Just today I read that The Immortal Prince is now available in the US and parts of the UK. The Second Sons trilogy is my favourite, though. No magic, which makes fantasy fans upset. It's well worth a look for beautifully developed characters and politics, though. The first book is called The Lion of Senet. 

  I will never look at Iran in the same way as before this book. I am one who is quick tempered and intolerant at times of those who are our "enemies". I need books like this to remind me that not everyone is our enemy, even if they live in a country that is.

 This book will go on my list of meaningful books that should be read by everyone.

“My Life as a Traitor” By Zarah Ghahramani

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This book will go on my list of meaningful books that should be read by everyone.

 

“My Life as a Traitor” By Zarah Ghahramani

I have heard about this book and I'm glad to hear another high opinion of it.  I will look for it!

I've been called a bookworm -- as a kid, I read with a flashlight under the covers after going to bed (I shared a bedroom with my sister).  I spent hours lying on the couch with my head tilted forwards into a book -- and now I have misaligned vertebrae in my neck (Xrays show a lack of a proper curve in my neck, although maybe that's not really what caused it!). 

We lived behind the public library, and I hung out there often, especially during the hot summers since it was air conditioned and our apartment wasn't.  I went through all the usual series of books as a kid:  Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, all the Judy Blumes (I forgot about Fudge until I read the earlier post).  I've always loved mysteries -- Agatha Christie, all the Sherlock Holmes collection, PD James, Dorothy Sayers, Martha Grimes.  In school, I enjoyed reading the classics, and I've re-read several of them with even greater appreciation as an adult.

I don't make as much time for reading as I'd like to, but I still have 3 stacks of books on my nightstand and a list of books in my purse that I'm constantly adding to.   Lately I've been enjoying memoirs and essay collections.  Now it takes me forever to get through a book because I read when I get in bed, and I start to nod off after a few pages, which means I have to re-read a few pages the next night!  

When I'm reading a really good book, I start to get sad as I'm nearing the end because I know I won't be able to savor it much longer!  Great books have characters that stay with you long after you close them.  Someone in an earlier post said they "got lost" in books when dealing with things bothering them.  Books serve so many purposes -- escape, relaxation, education, enlightenment, etc.  As Emily Dickinson wrote, "There is no frigate like a book!"