Feb
21
2008
Recently Rosie O’Donnell wrote the following on her blog:
i am so sad when a good book ends
i slow down
trying to drag it out
make it last longer
Rosie’s post inspired this week’s Thursday Thirteen.
I know I’m reading a good book when:
- As Rosie stated, I begin to slow down towards the end of the book because I don’t want the experience to end.
- Characters feel so real that I pick up the phone to call to make sure they are okay. (yes, I’ve done this)
- The description and storytelling is so good that I forget I’m reading a book.
- I buy the book for people in my life.
- I call my sister or a friend to read a passage out loud.
- I ask people if they read the book so we can participate in a pretentious conversation.
- When I log onto amazon.com and leave a comment.
- I read other books written by the author.
- Get inspired and start working on my own novel (hoping my book will turn out just as good).
- Sulk because I get a nagging feeling my book won’t come close to the masterpiece I just read.
What? I have less than thirteen points? Well, I guess you are right. But that’s all I got. Why don’t you help me finish my list in the comment section?
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Great Thursday list, I enjoyed it very much! Hope my blog doesnt gross you out, bring a can of lysol over to read todays blog!
Excellent list, all reasons I find a book good too, great topic idea. May have to add it to my list.
I too slow down. Usually I get books at library now that it is acoss the street. Books are my vice, I have always spent too much on them. I can never live near a book store w/coffee counter in it again. (Difficult, because in Seattle they are EVERYWHERE) I buy it after I read it.
I gush to friends. (An action I dislike others to do to me, and I don’t like people buying me books, art, CDs, DVDs, that THEY just KNOW I’ll like.)
I also get a bit bummed that I can never write as well.
I cry. I write to the author. (No, never have recieved any responses.)
I hold it in both hands for a long time, as if to embrace its essence into my very soul.
“I hold it in both hands for a long time, as if to embrace its essence into my very soul.”
Yes! Yes! I do that as well. Sometimes I kiss the cover.
Hey, don’t judge. That’s about all the action I get.