Bookaholic
After last week’s shopping endeavor in the secondhand store to hunt for books, I took a trip to this two story secondhand store to look for more bargains on books. It’s fun to sniff around the bookshelves trying to find books I like and haven’t read yet or look for books to get certain series more complete.
It took a bit of searching but I managed to get four very decent books for €6.25 (convert?). Two by Tess Gerritsen and two by Stephen King of which one is in English. Unfortunately when I came home I realized I already owned a copy of one of the Tess Gerritsen books so I gave it to my mom who is collecting her books too and didn’t own it yet. Another book for her to add to my parents’ library.
Speaking of which, their library looks so nice, it has all kinds of old stuff in it to give it this really specific vibe. It even has an old radio that still plays! It’s not done yet though, they’re still sorting through boxes with books and arrange things in order on the shelves but it’s coming along great.
As you can see my book addiction didn’t come falling out of thin air, my parents love books though and my sister isn’t far behind on the book loving. For as long as I can remember I have been reading books and it paid off, in school for reading tests I (as well as my sister) scored very high on the scale. Our parents also always encouraged reading, it broadens your views (or at least I think so) and it certainly does wonders for one’s vocabulary. I still can’t understand there were, and probably still are, children in schools that don’t really know what a book looks like. Whether that’s because they just don’t care or because reading a book is not cool enough but considered geeky, I don’t know, but there might not be as many people with reading / writing / spelling problems if more people picked up a book once in a while instead of a game console controller*….
Plugged: Fatima, Amber, Amanda, Jessica, Jenny
* not to say that there aren’t many people who have legitimate issues with reading / writing / spelling
5 Comments on "Bookaholic"
One of the best ways to enjoy a book Amber!!
I played outside a lot too though,we had (and have) a lot of animals and I was always around them.
Ohhhh… Your parents have a library of their own? That is so cool! I’m jealous!
Both of my parents are not exactly book worms. I don’t think my Dad ever reads and my mom used to but she only read romance novels.
If you’re not very picky about the condition that books come in, try thrift stores. I just got Emma by Jane Austen for $1 last week. And the cover is only lightly worn. Pretty cool huh? 
That is also our dream in a nutshell. When we move from this house to a bigger on in the far future (when more children have been added to our house hold) we would love a old style library – the husband and I are both horror/suspense(me)/fantasy(him) and I imagine a cool library full of our favourite books all in nice editions and hardback of course… *dreams away*
I love books as well! When school is on I’m very pressed as for time to actually read them, but in the school holidays I love to read. My parents both like to read, too, and I’ve always been raised to like to read. I was able to read signs at the supermarket before I was two. According to my mum.
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My parents were the opposite. They urged me to go outside in the garden and play like a normal child. I don’t think, when I was younger and in the summer holidays, that a day passed where I could put a book down. In the end, I think they got worried.
So I had to take my set of books outside, into the sun, to convince them I wasn’t insane.